Contemporary portrait

“On one hand, I work on an image in an almost classical vein: composition, figuration, use of light. On the other hand, I do not refrain from resorting to all kinds of idioms, such as the surrealist principle of association or the abstract experiments which foreground texture and surface.”

For Sale on 1stDibs - Autoportrait (1947), Canvas, Oil Paint by Laurent Dauptain. Offered by Hugo Galerie.

Annemarie Busschers raw realistic portraits and self-portraits mirror today’s self-obsession................

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Learn the art of creating vibrant and expressive portraits. Explore techniques to infuse life, emotion, and color into your artistic representations of people.

At just 27, Anna Weyant has enjoyed a rocket-fueled rise to the top of the contemporary art world.

Oil on board 40x30cm

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Tai-Shan Schierenberg’s monumental portraits with their thick juicy paint are hot business these days, selling almost before the final brushstroke is put down. Their appeal is easy enough to …

Belgium based figurative painter Michal Lukasiewicz portrays his subjects with the tenderness and warm sensuality of the High Renaissance, combined with the vibrancy of Pop art in his use of bright colors. Working primarily in acrylic, his works are almost monochrome, if not for the patches of shades like off-white, ochre, sienna, pink, grays, and neon oranges and yellows. Despite the contemporary expressiveness of his palette, his nude subjects, mostly women, have a mysteriously quiet…