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.
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Style: Contemporary
Color: Red
Ojulari I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Ojulari" is a series of three (3) paintings which does have a similarity of a big eyeball.
Ojulari simply means "Exterior Appearance" of a person.
There is one Yoruba adage that s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contentment
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
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 Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Unspoken- 21st Century Contemporary Painting of a boycouple
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis
Unspoken
63 x 45 cm
Oil on wood panel
First we can announce some wonderful news! 3 May 2022 Tania Rivilis did win the first price of the Royal Academy of Portraitpain...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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By Chuck Tingley
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas by Chuck Tingley.
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kinda Sorta, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Austin, TX
Jasmine Zelaya is a multi- disciplinary first generation Honduran- American artist based in Houston, Texas. The daughter of parents who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1970’s, mu...
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Materials
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A Little Wine
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is inspired by everyday life .... the struggles and the chaos. In the midst of it all, We have choices to take pleasure in little things too.
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Ships in a well-...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
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Yoko - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Omoge Awelewa (The Beauty Maiden)
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
Canvas, Acrylic
Solace (2022), figurative portrait, floral, flowers, pink, street art, muralist
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Solace" (2022), by Brittany Williams, based in the Finger Lakes region of NY state
Figurative portrait, face, profile portraiture, hair, braids, fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
KLIM
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne
KLIM, 2021
Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas
198 x 205 cm
78 x 80 3/4 in
Exhibition:
RAPHAEL ADJETEY A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
Regina - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Mosaic, If
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
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What are people's criteria for judging beauty? A beautiful face? A different existence? A feeling of pleasure? Or just follow what others say and make yourself feel the same way? People say the Winged Victory is very beautiful. Admirers come to the Louvre from all over the world. A lot of them just to take a picture to prove they saw it and say to friends, look, this is Winged Victory, how beautiful! Is it really that beautiful in her mind ? not necessarily. If it has head, do you still think it is beautiful? I am afraid many people will have a negative opinion. What is it that blurs the eyes of human beings and makes people's judgments of beauty vary widely?
The painting uses knife...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
YELLOW WATCH
Located in München, BY
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne
YELLOW WATCH, 2022
Acrylic, African wax print sewn on canvas
205 x 149 cm
80 3/4 x 58 5/8 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
God is a Negro 2
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
Me and My Big Strong Capable Hands (With Tiny Horses)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Me and My Big Strong Capable Hands (With Tiny Horses)," (2021) by artist Anne-Louise Ewen is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 24" x 20" x 1.5". The painting features pink, oran...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Appolo
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings.
His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pigment
"Perfect Empire #6", Classical Greek Sculpture Portrait Figurative Study on Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary figure study of a classical Greek sculpture of a woman with cherub, depicted with expressive brushstrokes on a bold, deep red background...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
All Smiles, rose
By André Monet
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Inspired by cinema, photography, music and literature, Monet has a natural connection and sense for the current society and his contemporaries. His signature conceptual assemblage of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Cyclops - 21st Century, Painting, Pink, Orange
Located in Berlin, DE
Cyclops, 2011
acrylic on canvas
7 7/8 H x 7 7/8 W in.
20 H x 20 W cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red anger - Simone Picciotto, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed lower right
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Man in Red
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on linen painting by emerging contemporary artist Anthony Leone,
currently featured as part of the artists's solo exhibition Grape Farm.
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hercules after Carracci - 21st Century, Orange, Red, Human, Warrior, Hero
Located in Berlin, DE
Hercules after Carracci, 2014
Acrylic on canvas (Signed front right corner)
111 1 /32 H X 78 47/64 W in.
282 H x 200 W cm
(reproduced at page 126, in the catalogue 'Mythical Flesh' b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fever Nurse vs CowBoy, After Prince
Located in New York, NY
Cao meticulously places each smaller image to form a dynamic gradient from dark to light which tricks the eye into seeing one image. This expertise in contrast is exemplified in all ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Stainless Steel
Robert Loughlin Brute Gay LGBT Contemporary NYC Oil Male Portrait "The Smiths"
By Robert Loughlin
Located in New York, NY
Robert Loughlin Brute Gay LGBT Contemporary NYC Oil Male Portrait "The Smiths"
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Wow! Is That Love?, 2021 , Kinetic - Mixed Media
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Wow! Is That Love?, 2021" is a unique kinetic mixed media artwork on panel by a world-renowned French contemporary artist, Patrick Rubinstein. He is famous for his diverse style re...
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Geometric Abstraction, portrait of Bork- 'Army of Me'
By David Paul Kay
Located in New York, NY
The universe is intricate yet so simple to navigate through with your eyes shut. That fascinates me and inspires pretty much everything I do or create. Imagination is an unique devic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Icono
Located in New York, NY
Julio Alan Lepez
Icono , 2016
Oil on canvas
28 x 39 in
(71.12h x 99.06w cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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