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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Paradis perdu 9 - série portraits de femmes
Stéphane Vereecken
Photography - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$578
Portrait of Francis Picabia
Man Ray
Photography - 27 x 21 x 0.2 cm Photography - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$36,988
Gently transformation
Trendafila Trendafilova
Painting - 30 x 24.5 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.6 x 0.8 inch
$965
Mainbocher Corset. Paris. Printed later
Horst P. Horst
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$12,000
The Breakfast of the Goddess
Vahag Hamalbashyan
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,427
Ray Charles
Philippe Gras
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,098
Nguyen Hoang Viet
Philippe Cormault
Painting - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,734
Women from Salt River
Rudolph Carl Gorman
Print - 72.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 28.5 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,250
A Girl with Chanel Earring
Sahara
Painting - 125 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$636
Queen Crowned in a Banana and Black Cat
Kim Soo Young
Painting - 20.3 x 15.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 6 x 0 inch
$636
Because love cannot be bombed_
Inna Sych
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,890
Body of Mind
Lawrence Amoo
Painting - 180.1 x 149.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 59 x 1 inch
$10,550 $7,913
Ulimi wako mkuwba una faa kuenda kuenye ma shindano
George Lilanga
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$913
Silhouettes. Tarifa 1
Elena Done
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$590
Mahumbi girl with ungava hairstyle variation. Humbi. Angola
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58.5 x 26 cm Photography - 24 x 23 x 10.2 inch
$975
Untitled #414 (Clowns. 2003)
Cindy Sherman
Design - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Design - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$3,179
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,352
Rostro India Unique
Alberto Ricardo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$694 $624
Fragments of a Performance
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Eclosion
Alexandre Monteiro (Hopare)
Sculpture - 35 x 14 x 12 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.5 x 4.7 inch
$11,559
Untitled sculpture
George Lilanga
Sculpture - 63 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
$1,618
I drink therefore I can
The Connor Brothers
Print - 121 x 75 x 0.3 cm Print - 47.6 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
$4,508 $4,057
Garçon dans les salons de l’hôtel Albergo dans le quartier chrétien Achrafieh, Beyrouth, Liban
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$925
Le grand départ
Benoît Montet
Painting - 59.9 x 39.9 x 2.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.1 inch
$2,391
La cage, un nouveau monde
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 76 x 56 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 1.2 inch
$16,067
El iluso que mira las estrellas - The deluded man who looks at stars
Alberto Letamendi
Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 5.8 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 2.75 x 2.3 inch
$4,300
Untitled (Reflection)
David Shrigley
Fine Art Drawings - 27.94 x 20.95 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.2 x 0.4 inch
$8,500
First Love (large framed hand signed screen print)
Romero Britto
Print - 83.8 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 33 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
07 - Dancing stilt walkers / Potsdam 2
Sabine Winnemuth
Painting - 90 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,161
Festival of Fire
Ofobuike Okudoh
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.5 inch
$3,468
Political Demagogy III
José Luis Cuevas
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 35.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14 inch
$4,500
Untitled (44)
Mansour El Habre
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,900
The paranoid likes to make people paranoid
Gérald Panighi
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 27.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.1 inch
$925
MIYUKI 5 : MISTY PURPLE WHISPERS AND KAWAII TEMPTATION
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$2,427
Portrait of Jean Basquiat
Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,500
