Portrait
Portraits are one of the oldest genres of painting known to art, and it first appeared in ancient Egypt. For several centuries, there was a tendency to idealize features in order flatter important patrons for whom the portrait was for. Then, progressively, artists started to turn to ordinary people for their sitters, with fewer requirements limiting their choices, they were able to paint increasingly realist works.
Portraiture was influenced by the many movements of the 20th century and, rather than getting closer to reality, painters used portraits as a means to experiment with new artistic techniques and theories. Photography and sculpture followed a similar path, thus showing the incredible creativity and interpretation of artists.
Today there is an enormous variety of unusual portraits that don't aim flatter their sitters in the least but rather be expressive. Disfigured faces, surprising collages, distorted human forms and even creatures that are half-human, half-animal: there are no rules and creativity flows!
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La dame au chapeau
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 30 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$272 $259
A Girl In A Window
Yosl Bergner
Painting - 40 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$5,100
Musical Hearing
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350 $280
Look through my eyes
Afolayan Emmanuel
Painting - 114.3 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,000
Against all odds, I stand
Gbelekale Azeez
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,250
Sous la varangue
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,445
Nicholose
Erte Tirtoff
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$5,779 $4,046
Le Patron de la Nef
Erte Tirtoff
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$5,779 $4,046
The Man's Portrait - 4
Romeo Melikyan
Painting - 34 x 27 x 0.2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,503
The Man's Portrait - 3
Romeo Melikyan
Painting - 35 x 28 x 0.2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,156
Woman with Veil
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 102 x 71 x 8 cm Painting - 40.2 x 28 x 3.1 inch
$16,182
The woman on sofa
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 90 x 70.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.8 x 1 inch
$7,166
Lady with Fur
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 105 x 76 x 0.7 cm Painting - 41.3 x 29.9 x 0.3 inch
$7,398
Le temps des cerises 2/8
Alberto Ascaso
Sculpture - 52 x 21 x 12 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 8.3 x 4.7 inch
$6,357
Sotigui Kouyaté
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,779
Les chevaux de mes rêves galopent
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 30 x 21 x 0.01 cm Print - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$76 $73
Die Spargelschaelerin
Elvira Bach
Print - 77 x 54 x 1 cm Print - 30.3 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,922 $1,537
Eternal Ethereal
Noir Visualart
Painting - 67 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$347 $312
Autoportrait aviaire
Hatem Akrout
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,312
Femme chinoise
FeiWoux Chan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,734 $1,560
Le printemps dans l'air
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,814
At the edge of the Jade Sea
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,304
Learn, unlearn and relearn Africa
Orioye Bukola
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
$9,000
Noble Woman
Erhard Klepper
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,040
Reciprocity
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,098
Reciprocity2
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,734
Portrait orange
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$461 $439
Fire Genny
Erte Tirtoff
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$6,357 $4,450