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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Folie à Deux- Joker
Diederik Van Apple
Painting - 100 x 109 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 42.9 x 1.6 inch
$5,901
Cosi Fan Tutte Fleurdelise
Erte Tirtoff
Painting - 38.1 x 26.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 10.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,963
The Girl's Own Paper, 1885
Alexander Korzer-Robinson
Sculpture - 29 x 22 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 8.7 x 2 inch
$954
Covered by Forest
Svante Gullichsen
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,258
Osmose - série sculpture et corps en matière
Jf Carer
Sculpture - 79 x 31 x 31 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 12.2 x 12.2 inch
$12,517
Jeune fille aux papillons
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 41 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$870
Aquarelles graphiques 3
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$954
Autoportrait 3
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$11,921
Das Zimmer im zweiten Stock / La chambre au deuxième étage
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$775
The white sailing boat
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Print - 75.7 x 52 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.8 x 20.5 x 0 inch
$2,241
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,117
Masque (Version 2)
Françoise Pétrovitch
Print - 120 x 160 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 63 x 0 inch
$2,742
Pupa Woman (Plate)
Yoshitomo Nara
Sculpture - 26.7 x 26.7 x 3 cm Sculpture - 10.5 x 10.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,175
Tell me who your friends are...
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 59.9 x 49.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.6 x 1.2 inch
$650
3 in 1 Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, African Women
Samson Toba
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$4,250
Harlem Dude rehausse VIII/XII
Kelu Abstract
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$775
One Woman, One Dog
Steven Boksenbaum
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1.5 inch
$675
Fase I: Empoderamiento
Manuel Mediavilla
Sculpture - 76 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$7,630
Taylor Swift's Violin (Taylor Swift au Violon)
Françoise Leblanc
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$954
Blonde comme tes pieds
Matthias Gaillaguet
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$954
Portrait de Leopold Zborowski (d'après)
Amedeo Modigliani
Print - 46 x 30 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,431
Henriette
Raoul Dufy
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 46 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$1,788
Beauty with gold
James Chiew
Photography - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,517
Starry Night: City Mask
Moira Bushkimani
Sculpture - 60.5 x 46 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 18.1 x 1 inch
$2,980
Grandma Divers IX
Alain Schroeder
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,980
Le Korrigan Prend La Pause
Michadu
Sculpture - 52 x 32 x 15 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 12.6 x 5.9 inch
$1,907
Harmony or devastation
Anton Klepikov
Sculpture - 65 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$2,000
El baile
Gabriel Rigo
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$954
Bye Bye Blackbirdds
Paula Montgomery
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$3,100
Smile Sourire
Moon Shin
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$29,803 $14,902
Eternal Recurrence #16, deiNERI Pedestal Sculture
Natasha Zupan
Sculpture - 185.4 x 50.8 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 73 x 20 x 8 inch
$5,500
Visage de Sainte Thérèse II
Yining Zhao
Painting - 100 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,457
Umbrellas 50 IV
Carlos Martin Jimenez
Painting - 49.8 x 49.8 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.6 x 19.6 x 1.6 inch
$990
Jardim dos Sonhos, Special Limited Edition
Ritchelly Oliveira
Print - 57 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 22.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$536
Comme un point d'acupressure (masque)
Sandrine Plante
Sculpture - 22 x 13 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 5.1 x 4.7 inch
$656
The guiding light, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Amy Bernays
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$828
