Contemporary Portrait Painting Artists

Check out 8 of today s contemporary portrait artists who are pushing the age old genre in new directions.

Contemporary portrait painting artists.

If there s a famous portrait artist who successfully mixed traditional paintings with contemporary visions and topics it has to be kehinde wiley the american painter creates canvases inspired by old masters like rubens and jacques louis david except his models are young black men who pose in front of colourful patterns and not just any patterns but those that refer to textiles and. From noble portraits of the renaissance period to depictions of middle class life during the realism movement portrait artists continue to develop their own styles today. 1954 cindy sherman made a name for herself with her untitled film stills 1977 1980 a series of self portrait photographs of her acting out 20 th century pop culture female clichés. See more ideas about art portrait painting portrait.

The most famous contemporary artist in the world in 2015 and one of japan s most important living art makers yayoi kusama is the woman behind the infinity mirror rooms that have everyone taking selfies in them the intriguing pumpkins and countless polka dot paintings. Portraits reading and portrait backgrounds. Her work examines women s roles throughout history and in contemporary society and can be related to other modern artists and their abstract paintings of faces. Instead artists painted their friends and lovers in whatever way they pleased.

At the same time photography became the most. The group is a non profit collective of artists set up purely to promote this wonderful and intensely fascinating branch of painting. Original art collection created on 3 27 2014. Among leading modern artists portrait painting on commission that is to order became increasingly rare.

31 original artworks curated by rebecca wilson contemporary portraits. Human faces art that inspires. The varied contemporary takes on portraiture reveal that contrary to stieglitz s. Cbpp draws together some of britain s best contemporary portrait and figurative painters currently working and exploring what it means to represent people in art.

Elizabeth peyton s intimate portraits of art world figures and celebrities explore youth fame and beauty while kehinde wiley employs the compositional style and precision of old masters works to valorize his traditionally marginalized black subjects. Most of picasso s pictures of women for example however bizarre can be identified as portraits of his lovers.