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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Tadeusz Kantor
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 26 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.2 x 0.1 inch
€6,000
Kristina Mallen
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€490 €441
Maryse-Anne Couteau
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 29 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
€4,000
Celso Castro
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 34.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 13.75 x 0.1 inch
€449
Georges-Henri Tribout
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.7 x 0 inch
€300
Frank Eric Zeidler
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€220
Kristina Mallen
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 12.2 x 0 inch
€450 €405
Pierre Georges Jeanniot
Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 13 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.9 x 5.1 x 0 inch
€300
Herve Malcom Thomas
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€180
Carl Albert Angst
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 18.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
€452
Carl Albert Angst
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 23 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
€429
