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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Judith Malina at La Mama Theatre
Amy Cohen Banker
Photography - 25 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€500
Catechismo Classe 2
Matteo Fieno
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Ra’ah (Shepherd)
Merenini Williams
Painting - 81.3 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 25 x 1 inch
€1,690 €1,352
Discover 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Children, Africa, Balloons
Benjamin Akinsoji
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,080
Elegant Soul of Lady À?àk??
Mayowa Adekile
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€4,084
Henriette
Raoul Dufy
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 46 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 18.1 x 0 inch
€1,500
Alors Nino tu marches ?
Clément Herrmann
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€800
Eternal Recurrence #16, deiNERI Pedestal Sculture
Natasha Zupan
Sculpture - 185.4 x 50.8 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 73 x 20 x 8 inch
€5,163
Women
Guelfo Bianchini
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 36 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
€800
Sweet and Sour
Ganiyat Abdulazeez
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,004
Electric Nature 4
Audrey Dupre
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€342
Variation picturale I
Yoland Rafougilet
Photography - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€790
I’ll be with her when the roses bloom again
Filippa Bjerling
Painting - 103 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40.6 x 28.7 x 1 inch
€2,300
Zoro
Christian Zeimert
Fine Art Drawings - 77 x 57 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0.2 inch
€800
Untitled
Larissa De Jesus Negron
Painting - 34.3 x 27.9 x 2 cm Painting - 13.5 x 11 x 0.8 inch
€2,816
John Lennon, Statue of Liberty, New York City
Bob Gruen
Print - 58.4 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 23 x 17 x 2 inch
€1,080
Portrait - The Game of Life
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€12,800
My first born - Mon premier né
Zachariah Njobo
Sculpture - 42 x 32 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 12.6 x 5.9 inch
€1,500
La question
Albane de Saint Remy
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€720
I Also Have A Rose - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Impasto, Floral Women
Dan Uduak-obong
Painting - 119.9 x 118.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 46.5 x 1 inch
€2,300
One Woman, One Dog
Steven Boksenbaum
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1.5 inch
€634
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€2,850
Girl drinking an egg
Kateryna Krivchach
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€798
La Fumeuse de St Jacques
Zafi
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,600
Arara V - Guacamaya. Cultura Kayapó, Brasil
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€6,800
Mann mit weissem Hemd
Stephan Balkenhol
Print - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€22,500
La plage à Biarritz
Rosario Heins
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Portrait Head 047B Pop - Italian School - NSWE
Dario Moschetta
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
Duo - sculpture scène de vie homme et femme
Cécile Robert-Sermage
Sculpture - 34 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
€725
Lovers - The portrait of love 4
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€662
Expectations
Anyck Alvarez Kerloch
Painting - 53.8 x 41.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.2 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
€507
Portrait de dame
Albert Chavaz
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
€778
The Mac Chicken
Zo
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€585
Umbrellas 50 IV
Carlos Martin Jimenez
Painting - 49.8 x 49.8 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.6 x 19.6 x 1.6 inch
€929
