Large Portrait Paintings

The Dutch multidisciplinary artist, Ger Doornink, specialises in painting, illustration and photography. Time spent living in Tokyo, Milan and currently Amsterdam, has heavily influe...

Madonna by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993) Unframed: 37" x 24" Framed: 47.75" x 34" Signed and Dated Lower Left Frame was Hand Made by the artist himself. A local Californian Artist, ...

Pope John 23rd in Cardinal Robe by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993) Unframed: 35" x 23" Framed: 43" x 31" Signed and Dated Lower Left Frame was Hand Made by the...

The medium of choice for Do Byung-Kyu, born in Cheonan, Korea, is dolls: they are both his conceptions and his physical expression. At the same time dolls are also the perfect tool for communicating the artist’s inner self. Expressing himself by means of dolls liberates Do from the restrictions of the mundane world. By embodying in the form of dolls his actions and thoughts, dreams and desires, and even the instincts lying in the depths of the subconscious, he transcends the secular boundaries. Dolls are his alter ego, his other self that he can construct precisely the way he wants. Sublimating the experiences and memories from his youth into various subjects of desire, Do uses dolls to paint a descriptive picture of the ambiguous feelings of contradictions from his childhood when he would abuse and kill a plaything, for example a frog, then bury the body in solemn mourning over its death. These sexual or violent games from his childhood are not likely to be limited to Do’s experiences alone. Most of us can vaguely remember indulging in sadistic acts of sexual love against a doll. Rising above a child’s simple curiosity, it is an intuitive game of the senses we play by ourselves. In a number of Do’s paintings, sticky liquid can be observed dripping down a doll’s face. This brings back recollections of the life inside our mothers’ womb where we were also enveloped by mucous waters, like the amniotic fluid. It refuses contact with the anything, and nothing wants to touch it either. The shape of such a mucous liquid is a protective layer sheltering the intrinsic identity and desires of man. It is also a substitution that satisfies the ego’s instincts otherwise suppressed by social norms. The dolls’ eyes...

"Free and Clear" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see h...

"The Future is Now" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can se...

"Feeling Good" is a collage painting on canvas by LA-based street artist Amy Smith. She is best known for her empowering images of women and motivational text pieces. You can see her...

This unique painting was created by using the technique of cake pipe painting; the pipes used for cake decorating. Pinar du Pre would pipe acrylic paint onto the canvas in parallel ...

Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna. Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected. The Chess Players...

'Home' by Willard Dixon, These paintings are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from Willard Dixon’s daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.” Willard Dixon Born: Kansas City MO, 1942 Education: Art Students League, New York, NY Cornell University Brooklyn Museum School San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969 Awards and Commissions N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989 California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998 Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998 Teaching 1989-90: San Francisco State University 1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar 1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA 1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA One Man Exhibitions 2020: Evening Light, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield 2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY 2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY. 2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA 2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY 2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA 1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery) 1994: Fischbach Gallery 1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery 1992: Fischbach Gallery 1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1990: Fischbach Gallery 1989: William Sawyer...

Modern Art, Portrait Painting, Black and White Painting-Smokin' Cowboys A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : "Smokin' Cowboys" is a mixed media, contemporary art painting by Addison Jones....

Cowboy Art, Portrait Painting, Contemporary Art-Lost on the Range A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : "Lost on the Range" is a Mixed Media Portrait Painting piec...

Modern Art, Portrait Art, Black & White Painting-Big Hats And Backgrounds Black A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Big Hats and Backgrounds Black (Hannah-A2)” is ...

Portrait Painting, Black and White Art, Contemporary Art-Derby Hat For A Dark Day A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Derby Hat for a Dark Day (Hannah-A3)” is a contemporary art portrait...

Portrait Paintings, Black Mixed Media Art, Street Art-Era, You There? A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Era, You There?” is mixed media street art by Addison Jones featuring her own po...

Head of a Centaur, Olympia Series, 460BC, 2019 Gold pigment and acrylic polymer on canvas 100 x 100 cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches) Signed, titled and dated on verso Lee Wells (b.1971) is a...

Lee Wells Head of Antinous, Olympia Series 2ndCAD, 2019 Gold pigment and acrylic polymer on canvas 100 x 100 cm (39.4 x 39.4 inches) Signed, titled and dated on verso Lee Wells (b.1...

Julio Alan Lepez Continuidad de los sueños, 2013 Mixed Media on board 33.8 x 17.3 in (85.85h x 43.94w cm)

Julio Alan Lepez Icono , 2016 Oil on canvas 28 x 39 in (71.12h x 99.06w cm)

Vu Nhu Hai's oil on canvas portraits have a photo realistic quality to them. His portraits are highly detailed and capture the spirit of the person within his canvas.

Artist: Elaine de Kooning Title: John F. Kennedy #11 Year: 1980 Medium: Charcoal and wash on gessoed masonite, signed and dated lower right Size: 30 x 22 inches [76.2 x 55.88 cm] Fr...