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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Regardons la réalité en face
Clement Garnung
Painting - 155 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 61 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Autorretrato (Self-portrait)
Jose María Abad
Painting - 40 x 32 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 inch
€1,800
Lune pleine
Elsa Ohana
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 36 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
€550
La sorella maggiore, dans un village Méo, Thaïlande 1959
Fabrizio La Torre
Photography - 110 x 70 x 0.5 cm Photography - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€2,290
Couffin et maternité
Henry Meylan
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,199
Girl with blue bird and Balloon ops!! red Bubble
Utopia
Painting - 120 x 105 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
€3,400
Maurice Chevalier
Raymond Moretti
Painting - 64 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Dondolando tra le stelle
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 45 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€310 €264
Violet Fever
Krzysztof Blonarowicz
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
San Michele Arcangelo
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 40 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
€320
Spaventapasseri
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 20 x 18 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€150 €128
Leihlilas - série portrait de femme
Fabienne Lecras
Painting - 70 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€940
Kipusa (gorgeous)
Mosoti Kepha
Sculpture - 48.5 x 31 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 12.2 x 1 inch
€1,890
The Smoking Girl ( Double )
Esboner
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
Pharrell Williams, Portrait 3. intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 114 x 82.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 44.9 x 32.5 x 0.1 inch
€4,637
Marilyn Monroe diamond
Diederik Van Apple
Print - 106 x 106 x 2 cm Print - 41.7 x 41.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,450
Brigitte Bardot diamond
Diederik Van Apple
Print - 106 x 106 x 3 cm Print - 41.7 x 41.7 x 1.2 inch
€4,450
CECIL THE LION KING - Series Hidden Treasures
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Strangers, Pharrell WIlliams. Portrait Photograps intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 76 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.9 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€4,637
Golden Monkey
Valerian Sioridzé
Sculpture - 32 x 19 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.5 x 4.7 inch
€1,250
City Lovers II
Anthea Missy
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
City Lovers
Anthea Missy
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Red and black face
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€80
2005 Gold Silver Lady ICON
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 53 x 53 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 20.9 x 0.4 inch
€9,500
Man on the brigde
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 107 x 117 x 2.2 cm Painting - 42.1 x 46.1 x 0.9 inch
€7,300
Peace@Last vert
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 60 x 93 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.6 x 1.4 inch
€2,000
The Black Suit and The Chicken
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 75 x 75 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
€2,700
Jeune femme à moitié allongée
Maurice Barraud
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 19 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
€777
Meditation Man
Mattia Novello
Sculpture - 88.9 x 81.3 x 76.2 cm Sculpture - 35 x 32 x 30 inch
€12,056
Caresses From Olympus
Mattia Novello
Sculpture - 180.3 x 61 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 71 x 24 x 16 inch
€11,129
Walking in the Forest
Anke Birnie
Sculpture - 54 x 15 x 12 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 5.9 x 4.7 inch
€3,593
