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Serie Terra Retrato en fondo oro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,154
Tant qu'il aura des fleurs
David Jamin
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$961
Sugar Cane Alley
Sinden Collier
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,809
Justice Woman - Blue
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$475
Burroughs 100 years
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$905
Sans titre
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$679
Divertissement #3
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$679
Que notre volonté soit fête
Miss.Tic
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$11,874
Le Soutien, peinture de Christophe Hohler
Christophe Hohler
Painting - 151 x 131 x 6 cm Painting - 59.4 x 51.6 x 2.4 inch
$9,726
A girl who loves the sea II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Space Invader Impression pigmentaire Portrait Space Invader par Enki Bilal
Invader
Print - 60 x 40 cm Print - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$4,297 $3,438
Musique et champagne
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,488
The coral crown forbidden production (6)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$2,036
The Woman Who Defeated Pain (Frida Kahlo) Letterpress
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 35.56 x 27.94 x 0.2 cm Print - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$565
Contemporary portrait - Once by the Sea
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
$2,827
L'homme et la mer
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,816
Wewe mdogo nenda ukanunue maziwa soroni
George Lilanga
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$893
Contemporary portrait - I'll Tell You...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,470
Femme au chapeau rose
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Familia en plazoleta
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 130 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
Sold
La demoiselle de Rochefort
Philippe Achermann
Print - 30 x 20 x 0.2 cm Print - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$68
Childhood Illusions
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 85 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,827
Long live the people
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$339
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer 2
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 37 x 25 x 31 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 9.8 x 12.2 inch
$4,184
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - 1
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 39 x 25 x 32 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 9.8 x 12.6 inch
$4,184
I drink to make people more interesting
The Connor Brothers
Print - 130 x 90 cm Print - 51.2 x 35.4 inch
$3,110
I Don't Want To Go To Heaven
The Connor Brothers
Print - 120 x 75 cm Print - 47.2 x 29.5 inch
$3,958
Pocahontas - Fallen princess - Size M
Dina Goldstein
Photography - 72 x 102 x 1 cm Photography - 28.3 x 40.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,654
La petite fille au ballon
Steve Maudet
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,244
Smooth parralel
Rudy Dougbe (PRO 176)
Painting - 92 x 92 x 5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 2 inch
$4,524
Bitonio à Deux Nez
Robert Combas
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$73,508
Muntu Dance Theatre
Sandi Goodwin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,979
Hiplet Ballerinas
Sandi Goodwin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,149
The ballet team II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
A wet November III
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
La jeune fille à la fenêtre
Anne Horlaville
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$633
Silence de Lumière
Sinden Collier
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,809
L'amour en bleu
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 73 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,958
Let's keep them for ourselves
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,470
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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!