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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Women of distinction
Suzy Scarborough
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
€4,637
Sans titre - série Caraïbes
Jean-Michel Loutoby
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€420
La Libia
Gabriele Galantara
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 9.6 x 0 inch
€1,100
Quantum Entanglement
Johnathan Ball
Fine Art Drawings - 22.9 x 15.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9 x 6 inch
€2,319
Ballet Pose Vl
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 76 x 56 x 0.4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0.2 inch
€850
In Silk We Trust! 2
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 56 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 22 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€190
Would you swim with me? XIII
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 52.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€190
Kiss of an angel
Kateryna Lemesheva
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€1,159
Picasso et Son Chien Perro
Caroline St-Pierre
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€3,405
Rescue Team, Riviera Romagnola
Fabrizio Alzati
Photography - 20 x 27 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.6 inch
€350
Water Wheels, China. Silver gelatin print
Monica Denevan
Photography - 38 x 38 cm Photography - 15 x 15 inch
€985
Carnaval de St Petersbourg 2
Mikhail Chemiakine
Print - 35 x 35 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€250
Woman With Leaves And Feathers
Johnathan Ball
Painting - 111.8 x 81.3 cm Painting - 44 x 32 inch
€8,347
Sans titre
Margaux Fontaine
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€160
El amores azul - 18 Ans
Fernando Porras
Painting - 195 x 114 x 10 cm Painting - 76.8 x 44.9 x 3.9 inch
€14,000
I see myself this way
Elena Bandurka
Sculpture - 165 x 55 x 55 cm Sculpture - 65 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch
€11,129
Female Portrait
Leo Guida
Fine Art Drawings - 43 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.9 x 13 x 0 inch
€480
Woman Red Profile
Leo Guida
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€380
All horizon disappeared
Silvia Cuello
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.2 inch
€280
Thapathali slum, Kathmandu, Nepal
David Tesinsky
Photography - 18.67 x 28 cm Photography - 7.4 x 11 inch
€250
Life is Good #5, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
David Tesinsky
Photography - 18.67 x 28 cm Photography - 7.4 x 11 inch
€250
