Contemporary portraiture

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Gaela Erwin is a contemporary painter, working in both pastel and oil mediums, whose feminist sympathies are evident in her psychologically compelling portraits and self-portraits. Her provactive self-portraiture borrows from a classic aesthetic and mixes it with a contemporary notion of the self.

This dark twist in art by Jeff Huntington, shows the multi-faces of humanity, which we like in art. The smooth yet quick brush storks give the work its arty feeling, nonetheless keeps it in a weak …

“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.”

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 …

'Indicate don't duplicate' is my mission for 2016 and second year of Watts Atelier! Well, that among everything else. I plan to focus on ...

WM | whitehot magazine of contemporary art | Noah Becker in Conversation with Canadian Painter Zoë Pawlak

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

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