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Kid
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$14,821
La Paix
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$14,821
Installation 2
Sarkis Sislian
Sculpture - 60.5 x 60.5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 23.8 x 6.7 inch
$3,480
Écorce, portrait I
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$16,084
Le dernier rituel 7
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 180 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$13,787
Vanité Gainée De Cuir Tatouée IV
Philippe Pasqua
Photography - 120 x 92 cm Photography - 47.2 x 36.2 inch
$11,489
Le printemps dans l'air
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,791
The project of landscape: Implantation of the supermarket
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 210 x 553 x 4 cm Painting - 82.7 x 217.7 x 1.6 inch
$65,487
The floater on the black seawater
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 198 x 190 x 4 cm Painting - 78 x 74.8 x 1.6 inch
$21,254
Amelia on her way
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,126
The Reader
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$391
Dure les moments doux
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 146 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$5,515
Le temps passe, tu l'espionnes
Clement Garnung
Painting - 130 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,676
Los Angeles 1964
Marie-Ange Daudé
Painting - 140 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,906
Theatrical Scene
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$574
L'homme au bonnet d'ours
Florian Eymann
Painting - 72 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$3,474
Hongkong mood light
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$862
Vanité du Pêcheur
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Print - 97 x 130 x 0.1 cm Print - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$3,447
Vanité au Papillon I
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Print - 97 x 130 x 0.1 cm Print - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$3,447
Le Ver est dans le Fruit...
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Print - 97 x 130 x 0.1 cm Print - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$3,447
Portrait
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$689
Portrait
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 35 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$666
Cloth Master in blue - Monochrome
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20.5 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.1 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
$550 $495
Cloth Master in brown - Monochrome
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20.5 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.1 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
$550 $495
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…