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LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 355 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 139.8 x 0.4 inch
$4,465
Soñar con Cortinas (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Body Temperature (Framed)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Série: Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$2,791
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,791
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,791
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,791
Want my apple too?
Claudia Benavente
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,679
Jardin classique de Suzhou
Jia Juanli
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$26,791 $24,111
Untitled (2). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,567
Portrait de vierge
Françoise Baron
Sculpture - 27 x 15 x 42 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 5.9 x 16.5 inch
$5,358
Parisian Gallery Opening - The Critic
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$441
Blue Moon. From La Música Nocturna Series
Sergio Bazan
Painting - 160 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 63 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
La Maison Rose - Diptyque 1
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$837
Back lighting, Black, Red and Green .Triptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 304.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 120 x 0.1 inch
$7,500
Back lighting, Green, Red and Yellow. Triptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 304.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 120 x 0.1 inch
$7,500
Back lighting, Black, Blue and Red. Triptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 304.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 120 x 0.1 inch
$7,500
Back lighting, Blue, Red, Green and Yellow. Polyptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 406.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 160 x 0.1 inch
$10,000
Back lighting. Polyptych.
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 508 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 200 x 0.1 inch
$12,500
Sans titre
Rudy Dougbe (PRO 176)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$4,912
Moon Shin, Portrait à la cigarette
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$3,237
Inner Thoughts - emotional upliftment
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,861
1987 La femme et le pantin The woman and the Puppet
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 110 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$3,907
Madoc Emrys and Malen
Jacqueline Roberts
Photography - 100 x 80 cm Photography - 39.4 x 31.5 inch
$5,023
RED TOKYO : CRIMSON ELEGANCE
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 100 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,353
DEPARTING TRAIN : JOURNEY’S VEIL
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 80 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$4,800
Louise Brooks 2. From The Dis-enchanted series
Paloma Castello
Fine Art Drawings - 41.9 x 29.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
$500
Flying Lovers
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,572
Juste un voeu
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,023
L'Hydre de Lerne
Jérôme Bouscarat
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$482
Mes rêves dans les nuages
Marcel Tchopwe
Painting - 109.5 x 119.1 x 3 cm Painting - 43.1 x 46.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,688
Nous ne sommes pas les derniers
Zoran Music
Print - 33 x 25.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 13 x 10 x 0 inch
$2,791
1952 Raymond DUNCAN Galerie Akademia
Raymond Duncan
Photography - 18 x 13 cm Photography - 7.1 x 5.1 inch
$3,237
1952 Raymond DUNCAN dans sa galerie Akademia
Raymond Duncan
Photography - 18 x 13 cm Photography - 7.1 x 5.1 inch
$3,293
Ayrton Senna avant le départ du GP d'Imola
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Ayrton Senna se prépare pour la course d'Imola sur sa Williams
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Alain Prost Ferrari. Regard
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Carnaval de Venise. Tout d'or vêtue
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,563 $1,328
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!