Contemporary Portrait Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
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.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Beige
Splinters of a Secret Sky - Splinters
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on verso): AF/2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic
Lee Hurst (3/4 Figure, Hands Together), Mixed media on Pergamenata parchment
Located in London, GB
Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...
Jelly by Michele Mikesell, Oil on canvas, pop figurative whimsical painting
Located in Dallas, TX
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Waiting For The Summer - L Format - Colorful Figurative Expressionism Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
We offer 2 shipping options : 1) Canvas is unstretched. The painting would be shipped in a rolled state without stretcher, This is then the cheaper option. 2) The more expensive sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Masked Doll 5
Located in Istanbul, 34
MASKED DOLL AND GAMES
A "Color Virtuoso" Between East and West...
Yasemin Şenel at Beyoğlu Gallery G-art after many years with "Masked Doll and Games"
Art critic Sezer Tansuğ d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Dimitri Likissas - Transference
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Abstract
Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas
I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The teller Moreno Pincas Contemporary art oil painting sea mermaid boat sand
Located in Paris, FR
Moreno PINCAS depicts life. Noisy, agitated. With a critical and tender eye, he sketches existence as if it were a play and each time tells us a new story made up of meetings and liv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indelible Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait Surreel In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Indelible Oil Painting on Canvas Portrait Surreel In Stock
Caroline Westerhout (Weert, 1970) studied Reproduction Drawing at the Graphic Lyceum in Eindhoven. After her studies she s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The king's dwarf Moreno Pincas Contemporary art oil painting portrait animal
Located in Paris, FR
Moreno PINCAS depicts life. Noisy, agitated. With a critical and tender eye, he sketches existence as if it were a play and each time tells us a new story made up of meetings and liv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Die
By GIFC
Located in Kansas City, MO
GIFC
Title: Die
Year: 2017
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Size: 11 x 8.5 inches
Signed and dated by the artist
COA provided
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Lincoln
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Lincoln
Series: Abe Lincoln
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 25" x 21"
Signature: Signed
Edition: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
''Swimming 2'' Contemporary Oil Painting of a Girl Swimming
Located in Utrecht, NL
Christine van der Cingel (1966) paints mainly cityscapes, people and animals. In her portraits the emphasis is on movement. It is more about t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
anwuli ⏐ Joy
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA says of her work…
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Popeye" Painting (FRAMED) 20" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Popeye" Painting 20" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Image size: 13" x 13" inch
Size framed: 20" x 20" inch
Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised for most of his childhood in the Mexican countryside, has never had his own country. Moving from an American suburb to a tiny village has kept his world unstable, yet that very instability has made him an artist.
Antonio was born in 1973 in a comfortable, quintessentially American suburb: close neighbors, picket fences, movie theatres, malls, and English all around. At nine, his family sent him back to his father’s village in Mexico, where the environment radically changed: old broken down adobe churches replaced galleries and the trappings of suburbia. Some adjustments were difficult, like dealing with outdoor plumbing and the transition to a Spanish-speaking environment. Teased and ostracized by other kids, and unable to communicate with the adults, Antonio looked elsewhere for, if not companionship, at least solace. He found it with a pencil and in the pews. He snuck into the village church and stared up at the murals of martyrdom. He hid in the dark corners and sketched the artwork that covered the walls and altars.
Antonio sought out the work of other Mexican artists, making them his mentors; his friends. Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Orozco, all revealed to Antonio the depth of Mexican art and its movement from the shadows of the Catholic Church into the modern world. He learned Spanish. He strove to master it, hoping to communicate with the folks of the village. Still, there was a gap; the language barrier between poor farmers and the middle class kept him from meeting people on an intimate level. Nevertheless, he now had three languages: English, Spanish, and his drawings.
Years later his family brought him back to Glendale, which he now saw through the lens of Mexico. It looked unreal; it did not look like home. Nothing looked like home anymore; not Mexico, not Southern California. The one home he had was his art. Though his mastery of pencil and paper began in the nave of an old country church in Mexico...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Queen Camilla, Watercolor Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Queen Camilla, by Manuel Santelices
Ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper
Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W
Unframed
2023
The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Lord and Lady Eliot, unique Acrylic painting on a gesso panel
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lord and Lady Eliot, by Manuel Santelices
Acrylic on gesso panel
Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W
Unframed
2023
The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture are explored through t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Acrylic, Gesso
Abstraction. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting in style of gestural abstraction with dynamic brush strokes and shapes. Main color is yellow balanced with red...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matisse Face Icon III /// Contemporary Pop Art Striped Portrait Painting Picasso
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Matisse Face Icon III"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Surfers 02
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
''Swimming 3'' Contemporary Oil Painting in Blue of a Girl Swimming, Pool
Located in Utrecht, NL
Christine van der Cingel (1966) paints mainly cityscapes, people and animals. In her portraits the emphasis is on movement. It is more about t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait - Oil on canvas by Dimitri Godicky Cwirko - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original modern artwork realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987).
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Label on the back with details about the artwork.
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Stillness" is a plein air oil painting of a forest shore by Nancy Takaichi
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Stillness" is an atmospheric plein-air oil painting by San Jose, CA based artist Nancy Takaichi. This ethereal painting depicts a serene sea side shore...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taylor Swift Icon /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Musician Singer Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Taylor Swift Icon"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Origi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
Fred Hughes and Diana Vreeland in New York, Ink and Watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fred Hughes and Diana Vreeland in New York, by Manuel Santelices
Ink and watercolor on paper
Image size: 12 in. H x 9 in. W
Unframed
2023
The worlds of fashion, society, and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
''Swimming 1'' Contemporary Oil Painting in Blue of a Girl Swimming
Located in Utrecht, NL
Christine van der Cingel (1966) paints mainly cityscapes, people and animals. In her portraits the emphasis is on movement. It is more about t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Memories - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gazing at Lebanese American artist Sally K's floral portrait is consuming and empowering. Inspired by strong, feminine women, she creates pop-realistic paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board, Mixed Media, Canvas
Grace Kelly Icon Platinum /// Contemporary Pop Painting Actress Fashion Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Grace Kelly Icon Platinum"
Series: Icon Platinum
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Paint
Nicholas Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury, Watercolor and gouache on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Nicholas Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury, by Manuel Santelices
Pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper
Image size: 15 in. H x 11 in. W
Unframed
2023
The worlds of fashion, soci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Gouache, Paper
The Memorial of Vivienne Westwood Series. Set of 6 drawings
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Memorial of Vivienne Westwood series, by Manuel Santelices
Set of 6 drawings of guests at the Vivienne Westwood Memorial in London, February 2023...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Permanent Marker, Ink, Paper
ka' anyi puta n'ogbo ⏐ Let's Show Out in Style
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA says of her work…
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a truly original body of work that exists outside formal academic or Western dialogue. My art is drawn from life itself and deeply anchored in a place and culture from which it was derived. This is the Igbo culture pertaining to the Igbos of Nigeria. I think that this description is more accurate as it implies a unique iteration of customs and tradition, bound to a particular location and a particular people.
Igbo Vernacular Art is not to be mistaken with Folk Art, but rather, concerns itself with an expressive aesthetic that would be more commonly associated with Contemporary of Modern Art; form, composition and narrative. Vernacular dialects are anchored to a particular land, and in much the same way, my art contains a vocabulary that is built on a strong sense of place and is situated in a location and a history.
It is my hope that one day, my work will be included in art historical dialogue about Africa and specifically Nigeria, beyond the confines of the wide-reaching Contemporary African Art designation.
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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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Doctor or Patient
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adieu Gaugin
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, and belongs to the artist collective, “The Front,” both in New Orleans. Owens’ work is concerned with contributing to and preserving the black archive, and she uses personal super-8 film references in her painting and video art. Artist residencies include the Joan Mitchell Center, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Studios at MASS MoCA. She is slotted to attend the International Studio and Curatorial Program in NY in 2023. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, and 21c Museum.
The artist says of her work…
In the sixties, my father was stationed at a military base in the deep South...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rest Stop
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 13h x 9.50w in
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
See Me, Countryside, study
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 13h x 10.25w in
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein, Pencil
Devotion
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 13h x 11w in
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Figurative/Portrait/Animals_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_The Caught Catfish_America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"The Caught Catfish"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
72" x 36.5" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Golden Eyes - Portrait of a Woman with a Piercing Gaze, Original Oil Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Gibbons' painting "Golden Eyes" shows a portrait of a beautiful young woman. Her piercing gaze brings the viewer in for a closer look. Her sultry, yellow eyes are intoxicatin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Canvas, Oil
Beach Boys
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, and belongs to the artist collective, “The Front,” both in New Orleans. Owens’ work is concerned with contributing to and preserving the black archive, and she uses personal super-8 film references in her painting and video art. Artist residencies include the Joan Mitchell Center, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Studios at MASS MoCA. She is slotted to attend the International Studio and Curatorial Program in NY in 2023. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, and 21c Museum.
The artist says of her work…
In the sixties, my father was stationed at a military base in the deep South...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Eclectic
Located in Sempach, LU
This is my personal vision of life, which could be
the life that everyone has the right to,
the life that Russian aggression deprived me of...
This is my virtual life, because real l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Stairs & Streets_America Martin_Oil Pastel/Acrylic/Ink/Cotton Paper_Figurative
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Stairs & Streets"
Oil Pastel, Acrylic & Ink on Cotton Paper
26.5” x 40.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Durga, Acrylic on Paper, Red, Yellow, Green by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Gangopadhyay - Durga, 22 x 14 inches (Unframed Size)
Acrylic on Paper, 2020
Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Should you want it framed and ready to hang ..please let us know and we will be happy to assist .
Style : Subrata Gangopadhayay is widely considered one of India's leading painters in the modern realistic tradition. The strength of his lines and the life-like quality of his figures are features that have contributed to his enormous popularity and success. Subrata's artistic vision is informed by swirling colors, a sense of movement and a vivid array of color. The characters are in oil and acrylic canvases, come alive in all of their colorful glory. He has the skills of a virtuoso draftsman, skills that he honed during his years as the Senior Artist of the Ananda Bazar Group of publications.
Subrata's women are all of these - charming 'adorable, seductive, vulnerable...compassionate... as with great controlled skill he expresses their moods through their eyes, smile & open body language. Each canvass is an excellent blend of technique & feeling as it evokes a nostalgic mood, each element expresses and emotional involvement - such is the charm & magic of his canvasses just as overwhelming is the variety of his work done. Undoubtedly a Master painter he is also a distinguished portrait artist, who paints in a mixed style within the broad expressionist format, standing firmly on the solid technical foundation derived form his training in academic realism. Brushwork ranges form smoothly realistic to the patchy impastos of vibrant expressionist bristles.
About the Artist & his works :
Born : Kolkata in 1959.
Education :
1980 - Graduated form Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata First class First Diploma in Paintings.
Solo Shows :
1990 : Expressions, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata
1991, 93, 95, 96 & 99 : Galerie Ganesha, Delhi
1992 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai & Gandhara Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
"Back Portrait VII" Contemporary Portrait Painting of a Girl
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas.
The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Colorful bright artwork with two girls
Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso.
Works of artistic stone
He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy.
Nugzar's color preferences
The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life.
Source of inspiration
Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties.
Working style
But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality.
Exhibitions
Nugzar Kakhiani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition - Watercolor by Piero Sbano - Mid-20th Century
By Piero Sbano
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized in the half of 20th century by Piero Sbano.
Mixed colored watercolor.
The artwork is hand signed on the lowe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Marilyn Monroe Icon XII /// Pop Art Hollywood Actress Portrait Painting Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Marilyn Monroe Icon XII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2023
Medium...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Prada puffy coats. Watercolor fashion drawing on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Prada puffy coats by Manuel Santelices
Ink and watercolor on paper
Image size: 15" H x 11" W inches.
Unframed
2023
Manuel Santelices explores the world ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
J.W. Anderson fall 23. Watercolor fashion drawing on archival paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
J.W. Anderson fall 23, by Manuel Santelices
Ink and watercolor on paper
Image size: 15" H x 11" W inches.
Unframed
2023
Manuel Santelices explores the world of fashion, society, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Silenciado Sergio Moscona 21st Century painting Contemporary drawing portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and ink on paper
Hand signed and dated lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Beauté du XVIIIe siècle 4 by Agent X, Original Digitally Produced Art
By Agent X
Located in Deddington, GB
Beauté du XVIIIe siècle 4 by Agent X [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Original Digital artwork on Canvas
Image size: H:147 cm x W:127 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Digital
Old Friends
Located in Dallas, TX
Old Friends
2022
Acrylic, Color pencil, on Washi (Japanese handmade paper) over wood panel.
Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Masaya Nakayama creates work by wrapping wooden panels with Washi (Japanese handmade paper) followed by “drawing” with a special painter's tape. After covering the panels with a mix of acrylic, colored pencil, and gold leaf, Nakayama pulls up the tape to reveal his motif.
The artist’s current body of work details his life in the USA as an immigrant on the path to citizenship. He centers on iconic images with themes representing what the artist equates with American culture through the lens of an artist of color...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
Tom & Richard (Stripes, through Zoom), Mixed media on ochre parchment
Located in London, GB
Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...
Audrey Hepburn Icon /// Contemporary Fashion Model Actress Pop Art Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Audrey Hepburn Icon"
Series: Icon
*Signed, dated, and titled by Graves on verso
Year: 2017
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Faces of the Amazon II
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Award-winning artist Jorge Yances reflects the Latin literary tradition of Magical realism with his ability to blend fantasy and reality in his artwork.
Yances was born in Cartagena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Faces of the Amazon I
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Award-winning artist Jorge Yances reflects the Latin literary tradition of Magical realism with his ability to blend fantasy and reality in his artwork.
Yances was born in Cartagena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Faces of the Amazon III
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Award-winning artist Jorge Yances reflects the Latin literary tradition of Magical realism with his ability to blend fantasy and reality in his artwork.
Yances was born in Cartagena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Faces of the Amazon IV
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Award-winning artist Jorge Yances reflects the Latin literary tradition of Magical realism with his ability to blend fantasy and reality in his artwork.
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Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Royal Twins (Drawing from the back)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Taju Mayakiri is the son of the Well know Nigeria Old Master and Postwar artist - Tijani Mayakiri ( 1937 - 1992), he invented a style of Painting that has the sketch at the back and...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Werkers in het Bos Workers in the Woods Oil Painting on Panel In Stock
By Walter Elst
Located in Utrecht, NL
Werkers in het Bos Workers in the Woods Oil Painting on Panel In Stock
Walter Elst Born in Antwerp, Belgium - 1955 After finishing his study Medicine at the University of Brussels...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
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