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This is Who Are These Angels CXVI, an original oil painting.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career by...
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Oil
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This piece is from my Who are These Angels series. This piece is on gallery wrapped canvas and the painting continues aroun...
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Oil
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This piece is number 118 from my Who are These Angels series.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career b...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
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This is an original oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career by studying graphic design in Tokyo, followed by several years working as a designer, before switching to oil painting. Now located in the United States, Naoko continues to develop her style through different series of paintings that have varying degrees of abstraction. By bridging representational with non-representational forms, the artist seeks to stir personal memories and spark new narratives. “Art is about having a sense of mystery and drama,” she says. Naoko is also passionate about color. She mixes her paints based on the intuitive emotions that different colors can trigger within the viewer, and within herself.
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This is Who Are These Angels CIX, an original oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas.
About the Artist
Naoko Pal...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Oil
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This is "Who Are These Angels "CIII", an original oil painting on Gallery wrapped canvas. This large painting measures 36" x 36" x 1.5 inches. The sides are p...
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
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This painting is on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished black edges. It comes ready to hang.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career ...
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This is "Who Are These Angels CVI," an original oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career by ...
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This painting is number 85 from my series of mysterious figures titled Who Are These Angels. The piece is on a gallery wr...
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This piece is number 71 from my ;Who Are These Angels; series. This painting is on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished ...
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This piece is made of oil paint on a gallery wrapped canvas with finished edges. It comes ready to hang.
About the Artist
Naoko Paluszak began her career by studying graphic design in Tokyo, followed by several years working as a designer, before switching to oil painting. Now located in the United States, Naoko continues to develop her style through different series of paintings that have varying degrees of abstraction. By bridging representational with non-representational forms, the artist seeks to stir personal memories and spark new narratives. “Art is about having a sense of mystery and drama,” she says. Naoko is also passionate about color. She mixes her paints based on the intuitive emotions that different colors can trigger within the viewer, and within herself.
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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.