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The Plainness of the Pre-Baroque
Douglas Ross
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 cm Photography - 20 x 16 inch
$1,088
Girl in the bath
Boris Svinin
Sculpture - 75 x 38 x 30 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 15 x 11.8 inch
$110,511
Au Feu d'une Rencontre Mystique
Françoise Benomar
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$1,451
Jeune victoire série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 36 x 16 x 26 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 6.3 x 10.2 inch
$3,795
Femme verte de dos
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Print - 35 x 24.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.6 x 0.1 inch
$614
Le bain
Olena Siniuhina
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$89
Lady in Lace
Tran Huy Hoan
Photography - 96.5 x 88.9 x 0.6 cm Photography - 38 x 35 x 0.25 inch
$4,000
Studies for an academic drawing of the silent majority 1
Wang Kai Chen
Fine Art Drawings - 85 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.5 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$3,126
Triptomatic. Death to the Hallmark Holliday
Carl Pascuzzi
Photography - 31 x 46 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$781
Nude in the Grand Canyon
Balbyshev Oleksandr
Painting - 85.1 x 125 x 2.5 cm Painting - 33.5 x 49.2 x 1 inch
$4,300
Bronze omnia vincit amor
Andréa Giorgi
Sculpture - 28 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$7,814
1980 Liaisons dangereuses The dangerous affairs LOVE
Serge Stephanie
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,105 $884
I've made peace...with my body
Blair Treuer
Painting - 100 x 84 x 8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 33.1 x 3.1 inch
$13,406
Conjuring Hermaphrodite
Linet Andréa
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,353
Sylvana Lorenz by Sylvana Lorenz Rime pour Prince Pierre
Sylvana Lorenz
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,094
Pose 2
Nadine Defer
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$435
Amuleto- B&W Photograph Portrait of the artist Framed
Marta María Pérez Bravo
Photography - 48.9 x 38.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.25 x 15.25 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Homo motus ruby #18
Alexis "Bust" Stephens
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,679
Carmen #2
José Pirès
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 18 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.2 inch
$536
Young Woman Sleeping (Early 20th Century Modern Nude Portrait), Serge Henry Moreau
Serge Henry Moreau
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$5,952
Palme de la Victoire
Pierre Le Faguays
Sculpture - 42 x 11 x 12 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 4.3 x 4.7 inch
$3,907
L'intemporelle Joconde
Joël Moens
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,419
Nude Carla Bruni, Harper Bazaar 1992
Philipe Robert
Photography - 100 x 75 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 2 inch
$12,279
Eretz
Nathan Chantob
Fine Art Drawings - 236 x 110 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 92.9 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$24,558
Transparence des ailes du papilon
KLA
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,014
Figure Collection : Dark version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 74.9 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,400
Anna patiently
Stàn Bert Singer
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$6,028
Not clear at all
Ana D. & Noora K.
Photography - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$12,056
Sitting Woman
Jacques Le Breton
Fine Art Drawings - 28.7 x 15.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.3 x 6 x 0 inch
$335
Saint Jérôme en méditation
Thomas Bambini
Painting - 114 x 79 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 31.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,707
Sanguine ref 1
Jean Laniau
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$268
The Dancer
Maurice Van Moppes
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 7.3 x 0.2 inch
$335
Bedtimes
Oeno
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 144 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 56.7 x 1 inch
$7,256
Two
Anna Lageda
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$447
Reclined figure
Georges Pierre
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$223
Tiempo nuestro (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)
Ernesto Garcia Peña
Print - 59.7 x 44.7 cm Print - 23.5 x 17.6 inch
$500
Photographie intervenue 'Punctum'
Mirco Marcacci
Photography - 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$335
Portrait sur plan de rivière
Valérie Evrard
Photography - 22 x 16 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$447
Femme à lunette
Luc Masson-Todeschini
Photography - 27.6 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 10.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$335 $285
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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!