Time Flies but Memory Stays
Adha Widayansah
Painting - 75 x 60 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 inch
$1,540
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Tokyo Pic Nic II
Motohiko Hasui
Photography - 45.5 x 56 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$555
Dottor Pupius
Massimo Festi
Photography - 200 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 78.7 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,665
Installation 1
Sarkis Sislian
Sculpture - 60.5 x 60.5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 23.8 x 6.7 inch
$3,480
In Search of Peace
Sudipto Tewari
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 61 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 24 inch
$1,073
Mirrored Case - Jewel Sapphire
Sophie Derrick
Sculpture - 39 x 27 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 10.6 x 2.2 inch
$2,316
Hope and happiness
John Mastrogiacomo
Photography - 40.6 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,105
Marie-Antoinette - série Reine de France
Tara Soultana
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$832
Rimbaud - Arthur Headphone (travail des mains)
CharlElie Couture
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$2,664
Verleiding (Temptation)
Rietje Geurts
Sculpture - 44 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$5,439
Allégorie du havre
Juliane Blasquez
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,165
Te tiny esther & coffee
Jeong Won Chun
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 4 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,651
Chien Pigeon Paris 1978 Paris Dog Pigeon
Pierre Van Poucke
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$721
Dame à l'éventail
Vittorio Gussoni
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,896
Chief And Lolo
Chinedu Ogakwu
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$1,997 $1,698
Holy mum - Triptyque
Laurelia Brizard
Photography - 90 x 180 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,776
Peaceful conversation
Hayk Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$600
Le père est sa famille
Robert Koumassadouno
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,053
Jeunes femmes africaines en cérémonie de mariage
Irina Condé
Painting - 121 x 56 x 2 cm Painting - 47.6 x 22 x 0.8 inch
$2,209
A date with Elvis
Josep Tornero
Painting - 27 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,776
Fight for a reason
Harouna Ouedraogo
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,885
Excelsior
Luis Martins dit L7Matrix
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,995
L'homme au short
Pascal Bruandet
Fine Art Drawings - 170 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 66.9 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,665
Dear Ugly Future
Volkan Aslan
Sculpture - 55 x 27 x 34 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 10.6 x 13.4 inch
$6,660
Femme mécanique n°3
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 5.9 inch
$499
Untitled #13, Fall Off Wonderland series
Yang Du
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,220
Hommage à Dubuffet Coucou Bordel
Signé Dupied
Painting - 65 x 54 x 5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 2 inch
$1,221
Il fait sombre quand on est seul - série silhouette humaine
Maryline Rigaut
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$194
Rostros imaginarios
Montserrat Tobella Bosch
Painting - 44 x 26 x 1.5 cm Painting - 17.3 x 10.2 x 0.6 inch
$3,996
Fluidity of a woman V
Katya Taneva
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,818
Metamophosis. The Soul.
Ekaterina Shitova
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$555
El gato de Velázquez o Paseo en la eternidad
Juan Carlos Romano
Painting - 99 x 99 cm Painting - 39 x 39 inch
$4,995
Jeune fille au Bouquet
Paul Braig
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 9.3 inch
$555
Painted Portrait
Djinane Alsuwayeh
Photography - 100 x 82 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 32.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,865
Occupied space
Basel Dahman
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$40,000
Rémanence la nature des choses
Joël Leick
Photography - 95 x 38 x 2 cm Photography - 37.4 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$777
Fred Kennedys
Monsieur GrandGrandGrand
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,765
Was für ein Glück (Gestern)
Paul Thierry
Print - 100 x 50 x 8 cm Print - 39.4 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
$2,537
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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!