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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Portrait

Les Fauves

Summernights

Ardore

Tiempo (Temps)

Don't Look Back, Your Life Isn't There Anymore -21st Century, Contemporary Women

5- Masque à l'os

Woman with a white cat

First Fruit - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Mother and Child

Soul of Lady Jane - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, African, Women, Cat

Woman in the Sun

Madone avec enfants et angelot

Rouge baiser, cheveux au vent

Stroke - Les machines de la médecine - série Collages

Seduce

Untitled

Ohne Titel (2 Köpfe und Pflanzen)

Mario

Look For

L’adieu aux armes, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzanie

Madone

Not Hopeless

Self Care V

Comfort and Grace

Known Delight - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Religious

Ally

Sans titre III

La marche périlleuse

N444

Hommage à Picasso

Têtes couronnées - Mona sortant du salon de coiffure

Regarde tout

Woman 1

Black & White

Vous, les femmes

Social Commentary, NYC

Pamplemousse

Melancholie

Holding Hands VI

Shurale

Thinker

Mimi

To The One Who Knows 1

Golden Woman

At The Other Side Waiting - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Fashion, Love

Companionship - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Birds, Interior

Regal

Immersion

Cultural Fusion

Hibiscus

Back to Amy

Red Women

S for Paris (hilton) rare portrait by WR

Abstract portrait

Kite

Liseuse en chapeau

Dulcé

Le petit bonheur

Circus

She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities

Skindo travesti debout

Mirrored Case - Jewel Sapphire

Tete

Pescadora

Sentirsi soli dietro le quinte

Renga

Um Outro Encanto, Joana Antunes