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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Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,327
Laurent Mangepapier
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,485
Stéphane Belzère
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,629
Jules Pascin
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 16.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 6.5 x 0.4 inch
$3,016 $2,715
Luigi Corbellini
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 29 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,042
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8 x 0.1 inch
$2,963
Ivan Afronskiy
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$1,556 $1,401
José Fernández Morán
Fine Art Drawings - 67 x 48 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.4 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,207
Fritz Zolnhofer
Fine Art Drawings - 52 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,689
Gabriele Galantara
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 9.6 x 0 inch
$1,327
Erhard Klepper
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,086
Cesare Bentivoglio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 39 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.4 x 0 inch
$2,775
Gustave Francois
Fine Art Drawings - 15.5 x 17.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.1 x 6.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,211
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
$965
José María Mijares
Fine Art Drawings - 21.75 x 47.625 x 2.54 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.6 x 18.8 x 1 inch
$5,950
Willem Van Hasselt
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 16 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 6.3 x 0.1 inch
$483
Kateryna Ocheredko
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$200
