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Letter to Grandma
Oluwaseun Ojebiyi
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,253
Niño de la Malvarrosa
Jose Manuel Merello
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,600
Princesa
Jose Manuel Merello
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 13.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 5.3 x 0 inch
€500
Ajoke 1
Oyewumi Oyindamola
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
€3,356
''Gunina''en Givenchy, Paris le 5 Août 1955 Elle Magazine
Georges Dambier
Photography - 74 x 68 x 2 cm Photography - 29.1 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Cloaks 3: Expose
Victor Anachuna
Painting - 119.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€3,068
Traveler 1 (purple cloth)
Aragbada Stephen
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,931
Shellfish gatherer
One KBCA
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.8 x 0.101 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€574
My Little Pet and I
Akingbade Mayowa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,164
Igbo Amaka (Igbo is Beautiful)
Omoyemi Ogedengbe
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,644
Humidity and trace #19
Jorge Dávalos
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 14 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.5 inch
€240
Blondie Yellow
Séverine Potreau
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,600 €1,440
La Chute des Géants
Sophie Manaches
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€750
Satyrical Portrait of Benito Mussolini
Alberto Fremura
Fine Art Drawings - 49.2 x 34 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.4 x 13.4 x 0.1 inch
€350
Sketches
Paul Garin
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 26.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
€380
Junior
Klaus Roethlisberger
Photography - 70 x 53 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 20.9 x 0.1 inch
€540
Snowflake on the neck
Vytautas Kumza
Sculpture - 19 x 13 x 4 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 5.1 x 1.6 inch
€780
Prince (love symbol)
ARySQUE
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,400
Prelude to an escape
Katia Chausheva
Photography - 48 x 33 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€800
While I Wait
Joseph Christian Ekom-Obong
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,685
Samaha Steam Punk
Valérie Maurand
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,250
We the Living
Hollie Miller
Photography - 21.2 x 37.5 x 0.2 cm Photography - 8.3 x 14.8 x 0.1 inch
€550
Mirrorscope 16
Maribelle Saad
Fine Art Drawings - 29.4 x 19.4 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 7.6 x 0.2 inch
€265
Happy to be here
Kramer O'Neill
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€600
Echo's answer
Andrea Michaelsson BTOY
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
€450
Femme Disciple de Socrate 1970 Woman Socrates Disciple
A. Brandi Isca
Print - 28 x 38 x 0.3 cm Print - 11 x 15 x 0.1 inch
€695 €348
Despues de Guilian Wearing - Diptych
Anibal Vallejo
Painting - 50 x 40 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
€3,000
Sans titre
Edouard Emeliyantsev
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 inch
€650
Wicked Game | Ponza, Italy
Serge Guerand
Photography - 53 x 80 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 inch
€1,980
Poetry of nature
Amir Soghrati
Painting - 190 x 400 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 157.5 x 1.6 inch
€20,000
1979 South Korean Blue Figure Collection MMCA Museum Modern Contemporary Art Seoul
Boong Hyun Choi
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
€1,900
Awaiting for...
Isabel Miramontes
Sculpture - 50 x 65 x 45 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 25.6 x 17.7 inch
€24,500
Disparition / Apparition
Engelmarie Sophie
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,538
Frida her life art and loves
Thomas Dellert
Photography - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,600
Mr 3D
Anthony Lister
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 12 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 4.7 x 0 inch
€2,200
Michael Jackson, Mohamed Ali and wife Veronica NYC 1977
Ron Galella
Photography - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€4,900
Children of Bafmeng / Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
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!