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20th Century Landscape Paintings
Pen
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pen
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Pen
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Pen
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Polaroid
18th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 17th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
1980s Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Antique 1810s English Regency Paintings
Giltwood, Canvas
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Oil
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Polaroid
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Polaroid
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Vintage 1920s American Books
Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Ink, Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
1980s Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Ink, Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Still-life Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Ink, Acrylic
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Rewa was born and raised between Nigeria and England and received a BSc. in Physiology and Pharmacology from University College London (UCL). She previously worked as the Head of Corporate Development and Investor Relations for a Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed company. Before this, Rewa was the Specialty Insurance Executive for Old Mutual West Africa and a Management Consultant at Accenture (UK).
A Close Look at contemporary Art
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right portrait-paintings for You
An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.