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La demoiselle du vent
Patricia Grangier
Sculpture - 52 x 20 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 7.9 x 8.7 inch
$3,205
Silent Conversations
Idorenyin Umana
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,950
My Skin Colour... Gift or Curse?
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$1,650
Tranquility
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,750
Blooming Grace
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,750
Creature XXVIII
Marcelo Suaznabar
Sculpture - 13 x 10 x 13 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 3.9 x 5.1 inch
$1,924
La préparation des udons
Dominique Andrier
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,621
Fleur dans un bouquet
Ludivine Corominas
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Ventana. Marisol
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.4 inch
$2,037
The paranoid likes to make people paranoid
Gérald Panighi
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 27.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.1 inch
$905
Vagabondages 12
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,924
Caleidoscopio
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$4,866
The effect of propaganda
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,924
Lady with a hand fan
Anatoly Metlan
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 1 inch
$6,800
Thriving in Adversity
Agwunwa Theophilus
Painting - 127 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 37 x 1 inch
$3,099
Gucci Cruise, Cannes
Martin Parr
Photography - 112 x 162 x 1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 63.8 x 0.4 inch
$25,462
Sex Appeal
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$622
Cellular Interventions #2 and #1. From The Geometric Head Series
Almo
Painting - 59.9 x 99.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.3 x 0.2 inch
$3,200
Portrait and Sunflower
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,250
The girl with golden hair
Barbara Kroll
Painting - 99.1 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,700
Faune Sauvage
Emmanuelle Van Laere NEL-14512
Sculpture - 25 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$3,848
The Tenor’s Solo
Kiritin Beyer
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,132
Ryan
Ryan Mendoza
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$6,224
Preparing the pan
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 25.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
$600
Bolatito (The Sanctification That Brings Joy)
Ayanwale Joseph Oluwafemi
Painting - 63.5 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25 x 15 x 1 inch
$1,450
Preaching to the converted
Boris Eldagsen
Print - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Print - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$1,132
The Garden og Heavenly Delights
Frank E Hollywood
Painting - 130 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$15,277
The laughing horse
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 52 x 44 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 17.3 x 8.3 inch
$8,487
The Godfather
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,619
Taylor Swift's Violin (Taylor Swift au Violon)
Françoise Leblanc
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$905
Entre el Cel i la Terra
Marta Carceller
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,207
Readers series - Capital
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$905
Femme au tuyau - série portrait de femme
Karine Azoulay (1kazou)
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
The Future is Today
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$13,580
Dreaming of the Future
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 86.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,550
Healing at the Mangrove Forest
Joshua Limon Palisoc
Sculpture - 52 x 27 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 10.6 x 6.3 inch
$1,867
Boy in Wonderland
Samson Olatubosun
Painting - 74.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,850
Transition - visage II
Samuel Yal
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 3.1 inch
$2,037
Rajao (Réhaussé / Hand-Embellished)
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$328
Cause the world’s crasy man
Jofo
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$1,109
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!