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Les Racine de l’Amour
Leticia de Prado
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$9,053
When The Sky Had Breath To The Ocean, Clouds Were Rising Up And Fog Layed Down And Made A Rainbow - It Was The Beginning Of The World
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$10,000
The Bird Flies To God, The God Name Is Abraxas
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$10,000
Where The Gushing River Flows Into The Warm Sea
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 145 x 112 x 5 cm Painting - 57.1 x 44.1 x 2 inch
$10,000
The Circus In The Beginning Of The World
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
The Cosmos In A Garden, A Garden In The Cosmos
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 145 x 145 x 5 cm Painting - 57.1 x 57.1 x 2 inch
$13,000
Tracing A River To Its Source, You Will Find Yourself In The Sky
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
Where The Sky Meets The Ocean
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
Flying In The Water
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
You Should Go To See The World's End, If You Have There In Your Heart
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
Tomorrow We Are Going To Run For Further, And The Day After, We Will Leave For Much Further Away
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
An Apple Falls Though, The Moon Keeps Turning In The Sky, And We Gravitate Each Other
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
Beyond The Summer
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 182 x 227 x 5 cm Painting - 71.7 x 89.4 x 2 inch
$24,896
An Explorer And His Blue Boat
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$14,000
Citizens Of A Commune Making A New World
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 130 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$14,000
Someday, We Will Go There In A Sparkling Green Boat
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 145 x 145 x 5 cm Painting - 57.1 x 57.1 x 2 inch
$13,000
Let’s Talk About A Republic, Which Was Born At The World’s End
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
Sea. Yachts. Beach.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,150 $1,935
Un arbre sur la rive
Hervé Lenouvel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,309
Whispering Heights
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$450 $383
The cat
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,500 $4,675
Still life with bird and fan
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300 $255
Rural life
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$7,800 $6,630
Still life with bird and grape
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300 $255
Summer. Field. Road.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,992 $1,793
Laguna Beach. California.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,539 $1,385
Metamorphosis in azure
Zhirayr Khachatryan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$450 $383
Beach Scene (Siblings)
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 183 x 203.2 x 5.75 cm Painting - 72 x 80 x 2.3 inch
$31,686
Still life - apricots
Gevorg Sinanyan
Painting - 41 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$450 $383
Jean-Pierre et sa copine
Filippa Bjerling
Painting - 85 x 119 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 46.9 x 0.8 inch
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Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$6,111
Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$6,790
Entrée du port D'ouistreham
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,621
La seine à Rouen en été
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,413
Le port de Ouistréham
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,621
Le canal Ouistréham
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,169
Close Friends
Tamar Sulakvelidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$16,974
Melancholy Eve 3
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 39 x 54 x 4.5 cm Painting - 15.4 x 21.3 x 1.8 inch
$10,185
Melancholy Eve 2
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 39 x 54 x 4.5 cm Painting - 15.4 x 21.3 x 1.8 inch
$10,185
I drove you home
Filippa Bjerling
Painting - 96 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,603
Traveling in the north country
Filippa Bjerling
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,621
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Oil Painting for Sale
Oil painting is a type of paint which involves mixing crushed color pigments usually with linseed oil, although poppy seed oil can also be used. The support on which it is painted must be covered with a primer beforehand so that the layer of paint can adhere to the support; an additional step which is crucial to the creative process and also means that it can be adapted to many types of surfaces.
It was during the Middle Ages that oil painting first appeared and began to be developed in the Western world. The discovery of oil painting is often attributed to the Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck who had been experimenting with various mixtures. With this new painting technique, his works benefited from new transparency effects and a new type of aesthetic was born. His approach was copied and later shared more widely by other primitive Flemish painters. Oil painting replaced the tempera technique, which uses egg as a binder.
Similarly, the wood on which artists painted was replaced by linen canvas, installed on a frame from the 15th century onwards and later placed on an easel. Although it was well-liked by painters, this medium had its drawbacks; its components were toxic and its preparation required a great amount of artisan savoir-faire in the studio. Despite this, it became closely linked to the visual arts and and was hugely popularised during the Renaissance thanks to the Venetian painters such as Titian, followed closely by the Flemish, including Rubens, before it reached the Netherlands who made it their own, with Rembrandt leading the way.
The 19th and 20th centuries saw oil painting became the number one choice and the preferred medium for for modern times. The mixture no longer had to be prepared by artists in the studio; industrialization had made things easier and the paint came pre-prepared, packaged in tubes. The tin tube was commercialized in France in 1840 and revolutionised the history of art by encouraging the Impressionists to take their brushes and paints outside and paint en plein air. It would slowly be overtaken by acrylic paint a century later which simplified things even further as it was dried faster.
An oil painting canvas also implies that the painter must respect the fat-over-lean principle, meaning that a colors with high oil content (fat) should be applied over layers of paint with lower oil content (lean) to ensure that the painting will last longer and to prevent cracking. Oil painting remains a widely used method and numerous artworks are still made using this technique.
Contemporary artists still master oil painting but sometimes avoid working with it in the same traditional ways of the 20th century. The canvas is often not prepared so that its texture can be seen under the layer of paint, as certain abstract painters have done. Jackson Pollock for example used oil painting but did not glaze his works. He didn't even truly paint his canvases as he used a dripping technique; by shaking his brush he created splashes of paint over the canvas…
On Artsper, explore contemporary paintings by well-known artists including Arman, Salvador Dali and Robert Combas.
Oil painting allows for very efficient mixing of colors and tones. Due to its long drying time, it is possible to alter an oil painting days after the paint has been applied. Oil painting also allows for precision and a range of visual effects.
Oil paint and acrylic paint are produced using different materials. While oil painting consists of pigments suspended in drying oils, acrylic paint is water-based. The main difference between the two is that acrylic paints can be thinned down with water, and dry faster than oil paints.
It is easier to correct mistakes when working in oil paint as they are more opaque than watercolors and can be easily scraped off a surface.