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Style: Contemporary
Color: Blue
Move Out Of Sight - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Graffiti, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
Pro Skater
By Joe Currie
Located in New York, NY
Figurative acrylic on canvas. Portrait of female skateboarder. Has abstract quality. Almost dreamlike. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
"Growing up in England during the 80s, the influence and love of American sub cultures through TV, and being surrounded by large non-spaces of US air bases around East Anglia, gave me a slightly odd and romantic view of America.
I finished the Masters Degree bronze-casting course at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and have pursued my passion for Art ever since. I have built up a body of work that follows the theme of a journey into abstraction, inspired by Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Audrey
By Chris Tomlin
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Wood Panel. Portrait or Audrey Hepburn is 24x24. Vibrant colors.
About the Artist:
"Tomlin is young, upcoming artist based out of NY. His interests in portraits, i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
3-9-22 (Duptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Memorias" (FRAMED) Painting 34" x 28" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Memorias" Painting 34" x 28" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image size: 25" x 19" inch
Size framed: 34" x 28...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Presence - portrait of a moment - oil painting on blue background
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Oil painting of a presence that emerges on the canvas from another existential plane, accompanied by other beings. With dimensions of 27" x 27" inches, and a royal blue background. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
A Cumulonimbus
Located in Toronto, CA
Daisuke Takeya’s “No Man’s Land” is his 5th solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting a new series distinct from, and yet analogous to, the parts of his practice that have been ex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meeting By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scuba Girl, Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl With Harpoon - Florence, Italy, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture.
Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance.
Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident.
“Queen Kong...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wet Hair, Florence, Italy, 2021
Located in Hudson, NY
This price includes that the painting is stretched and framed.
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple #2- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a nude dancing male and female
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Daniela Astone
Couple #2
50 x 40 cm
Oil on wood
Daniela Astone works and lives in Florence.
For years she was a teacher on the famous Florence Art Academy. Since 2022 she fulltime works as a painter. Her works are all around the world in great collections.
For our exhibition 'A Female Gaze' Daniela Astone made a series of paintings where the female aspect of her life is the main subject.
This series contains a series of seven paintings where you see a dancing couple. Female- male couples and male-male/ female-female couples.
The Currator of Galerie Bonnard says about the paintings by Daniela Astone:
The classical structure and narrative paintings show a technique that is special. Her style is virtuoso and her subjects narrative. The keys are loose and subtle. For this artist, standing in front of a painting means...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wave of Rapture, Oil Painting
By Gary Leonard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gary Leonard creates a striking portrait of a woman plunging into the water. The large, spontaneous brushstrokes of the wave merge into the emotional flo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Portrait of a young Indiana Jones” Original Oil Painting 16”x20”
Located in Boca Raton, FL
“Portrait of a young Indiana Jones” Original Oil Painting measuring 16”x20” is framed in a hand finished gold leaf frame. Harrison Ford embodied the character of Indiana Jones and this relaxed cool toned rendition of him is from the first film “Indiana Jones and the temple of doom”
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Picasso Face Icon IV (Françoise Gilot) /// Contemporary Pop Painting Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Picasso Face Icon IV (Françoise Gilot)"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Yea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
Summer Breeze- 21st Century Contemporary Figure Painting
By Al Saralis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Al Saralis
'Summer Breeze'
110 x 80 cm
oil on canvas
Artist Al Saralis lives and works in Hampshire (United Kingdom) and, as he says, does not paint reality, but what he perceives a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Breeze II- 21st Century Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl
By Al Saralis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Al Saralis
'Summer Breeze'
100 x 100 cm
oil on canvas
Artist Al Saralis lives and works in Hampshire (United Kingdom) and, as he says, does not paint reality, but what he perceives ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Midday nap- 21st century painting of a girl in a red dress on a blue sofa
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
'Midday Nap'
60 x 80 cm ( Frame is included in price, size framed in a black frame form the pictures is:
Oil on linen, framed
Painted after life, the artist always ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Moonlit: Blue I (2022) color pencil portrait, woman, face, hyperrealism, blue
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Moonlit: Blue I" (2022) color pencil and acrylic wash on Arches paper, mounted on cradled wood panel
Contemporary academic realism, hyperrealistic portrait, woman, face, electric blue tones
14" high x 11" wide x 1" deep by Erica Rose Levine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Wood Panel, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Nude on Armchair 2 original painting by Paula Craioveanu 20x20in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude on Armchair 2"
Part of my "Nude in Interior" series.
Original painting. size 20x20in / 51x51cm .
This is the second version of Nude in Armchair painted in a more free manner....
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Yesterday's Present- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a blond woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Victor Schegin 'Seehund'
Burning
116 x 89 cm
oil on canvas
The French artist Victor Schegin 'Seehund' lives and works in Paris.
At the age of 15, young Victor discovered tagging th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Faces of wisdom n°9 by Chantal Jentien - Oil pastel on paper 30x40 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Chantal Jentien is a contemporary Swiss artist who want to make colors and fun in her life. Completely self-taught, she paints according to her inspiration almost with closed eyes. S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Bivouac
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
''The Crinaeae'' Contemporary Underwater Portrait Painting, Girls in Pool
By Amy Devlin
Located in Utrecht, NL
Amy Devlin portrays people, animals, or nature in her works. But what really matters to her is light and water, which she wants to capture in the form of a physical memory. By following her passion for paint, she tries to represent reality and thereby express her feeling in the expressive colors she uses. Her paintings show a fascination with the movement and texture of water, which is depicted in vivid colors in her works. Her hybrid painting style combines realism with impressionism in a very interesting way, providing a different view of the world and our memories of it. Devlin loves the unexpected, looks at things from a crazy angle and imagines. Since 2014 she mainly paints underwater portraits...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Faces of wisdom n°10 by Chantal Jentien - Oil pastel on paper 30x40 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Chantal Jentien is a contemporary Swiss artist who want to make colors and fun in her life. Completely self-taught, she paints according to her inspiration almost with closed eyes. S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Moonlit: Blue II (2022) color pencil portrait, woman, face, hyperrealism, blue
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Moonlit: Blue II" (2022) color pencil and acrylic wash on Arches paper, mounted on cradled wood panel
Contemporary academic realism, hyperrealistic portrait, woman, face, electric blue moonlight tones
18" high x 14" wide x 1" deep by Erica Rose Levine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
''Eos'' Contemporary Underwater Portrait Painting, Girl Swimming in Pool
By Amy Devlin
Located in Utrecht, NL
Amy Devlin portrays people, animals, or nature in her works. But what really matters to her is light and water, which she wants to capture in the form of a physical memory. By following her passion for paint, she tries to represent reality and thereby express her feeling in the expressive colors she uses. Her paintings show a fascination with the movement and texture of water, which is depicted in vivid colors in her works. Her hybrid painting style combines realism with impressionism in a very interesting way, providing a different view of the world and our memories of it. Devlin loves the unexpected, looks at things from a crazy angle and imagines. Since 2014 she mainly paints underwater portraits...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
Series: Queen
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Other Side 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I don't know why I keep believing
That one day they'll bring us together
When they've shown, in more ways than one
That all they care about is the money
You belong to the one politic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Porto
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
This Must Be Illegal
Located in Dallas, TX
HelioBray's latest work, titled "This must be Illegal," is a stunning fusion of his urban intervention style and the intricacies of composite paint. The piece showcases the artist's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pigment, Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint
The Boy from The Hood
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Tattoo me 3 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 3
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Tattoo me 4 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 4
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socia...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Mixed Media
Jennifer Lawrence Supreme /// Contemporary Pop Art Large Portrait Actress Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Jennifer Lawrence Supreme"
Series: Eclecticism
*Signed, titled, and dated by Graves on verso
Year: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Age of Innocence - original round painting by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Age of Innocence", original unique painting
A feminine, innocent presence, portrait of a girl with a Venetian mask.
acrylic on canvas
20in / 50cm, round
Shipped directly from the artist from Forest Hills, NY. Registered airmail, well packed.
Don't hesitate to contact me for any info.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
The Muse - unique piece by Paula Craioveanu - Mask - Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Muse".
This painting was inspired by ancient masks and statues and it's part of my Neo-Mythology series.
Painted with acrylic on round canvas (20cm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Heat Lightning Herald I" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Heat Lightning Herald I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a face transposed over a green, yellow, and blue skyscape that's exploding with light...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Girl By The Sea, Florence, Italy, 2018
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artistic education at Milano’s Brera Art Academy. He lives in Florence, pursuing painting, bas-reliefs in terracotta and in bronze, and bronze sculpture.
Piussi presents an ideal, almost childlike world which can be found below everyday events, a step outside the flow of time, yet still a part of contemporary life, with a nod to Alex Katz and David Hockney. The drama, or lack thereof, is played out in simplified, almost abstract spaces. Pure in intent, Piussi’s oeuvre are inspired by the Early Renaissance.
Snapshot images of a world reduced to its essence, the apparently comic-book style has echoes of Giotto, Paolo Uccello, of medieval illuminations. Rather than mimicking the appearance of nature, Piussi reaches for its essence, without distracting details. Women stand on the shore of quintessentially peaceful seas, self-contained, at ease, unwitting replicas of classical goddesses - a proud diver echoes Neptune holding a trident.
“Queen Kong...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
4-9-22 (Diptych) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“I paint the human figure and explore further till I reach the Beauty of Being, the Soul.. the part of Human Being where everything is in total Serenity, Goodness and Harmony, where ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Blue Princess' Contemporary figurative painting of a black woman, blue
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
The figure has a dreamlike quality, giving the piece a tranquil and serene feel. The beautiful detailing is so colourful and Vibrant.
'The Blue Princess' by Ignacio Trelis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Selfie 1
Located in Singapore, SG
The "Selfie" series is influenced by the obsession with social media in modern day society. Each painting has an abstract portrait of a person with a landscape of buildings and billboards.
About Abhijit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Hopeful
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Hopeful is an original painting by Ifebunmi Emmanuel Anaiye.
Ifebunmi Emmanuel Anaiye created "Hopeful" with Acrylic on a 48W by 48H inches Canvas.
The artwork titled "Hopeful" is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Self Portrait w/ Red Drawing 1" Teal & Red Abstract Contemporary Self-Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract contemporary painting by Houston, TX artist Saralene Tapley. This painting features the artist, Saralene, with face paint and a green...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Silk, Canvas, Pigment
Responsibility
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Omidan 6
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The rhythmic beads on her waist miming to the soft music of the two bilabial mountains flouncing in majesty on her back. I see her and I trance. The curvaceous smile on her face quie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Miss Jessica
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Afro Blue (2020), pop surreal figurative portrait, street art, muralist, pattern
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Afro Blue" (2020), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state
Figurative portrait painting, pop surreal portraiture, street art, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Young Marilyn at the Beach tug of war, Large 68x88 Oil and Acrylic on canvas
By Ceravolo
Located in Southampton, NY
This large almost 8 feet wide oil and acrylic on canvas painting brings the feel of the ocean right into your home. The blues and aqua of the background of the painting along with th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Blue is Cool, Negro Are Cool
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Remix’D-4 (Blue Slushie)" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Grant Gilsdorf's "Remix’D-4 (Blue Slushie)" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a female model eclipsed by other figural forms.
About the Artist:
Grant Gilsdorf is a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Eye of the Sparrow
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Canvas, Acrylic
The Gaze
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Solemn Promise
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This work is meant to cherish and embrace love and give love to those who definitely deserve love from every individual. The inspiration from this work is from personal experience at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Growing Up - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li
Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling
In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Good Old Days
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Childhood is a golden part of our life that we can never go back to. Days are filled with good and exciting moment, that helps us to shape our future.
The days spent with our family...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Angel of Ephemeral Immortality
Located in New York, NY
Ieri Pnoi
Angel of Ephemeral Immortality, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm
The artwork is currently on view as part of Prosperity Prophecy at the Mykonos Municipal Gallery in Gree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Looking Beyond 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
No matter what life throws at you to discourage or change your good personality, or change the reflections people see on your Face or identity, one should try to look beyond and ahea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shop Antique and Vintage Portrait Paintings
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.
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