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Abstraction & courbes 1
Gisèle Desmarais
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$170
What a bliss the wind twisted again
Izabela Apananska
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,300
Ariel View, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Howard Danelowitz
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 inch
$22,000
Night by the lake
Marzena Skupien
Painting - 60 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,120
Place and Time do not Matter
Tadas Dromantas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,263
Uomo con bastone e cappello
Mario Poggiali
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$566
Vieille homme à la pipe
Alberto Cecconi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,129
Berger des Alpes et sa pipe
G. Baur
Painting - 39.5 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.6 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,027
Mère et enfant
Pierre Ernest Kohl
Painting - 38.5 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 15.2 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,054
Portrait d'une dame assise sur un banc de jardin
Marcel-René Chassard
Painting - 57.5 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 22.6 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,255
C'est beau une ville la nuit
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$368
Bakken (Parc d'attractions près de Copenhague)
Wilhelm Wils
Painting - 70 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,037
Sailboat Painting Alaska
Tetiana Teresh
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Cityscape with figures...
John Haanstra
Painting - 25.7 x 20.5 x 1 cm Painting - 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,980
La Drize à Troinex, Genève
Jules Robert Chatelain
Painting - 42.5 x 55.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16.7 x 21.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,031
Artiste et modèle à l'atelier
Franz Wanger
Painting - 73 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,472
Jeune compositeur
Jenny-Marguerite Zillhardt
Painting - 70 x 52 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 20.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,917
Jeune femme en costume oriental et bouquet de fleurs
Blanche Pierron
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,168
Portrait de femme au foulard vert
Georges Dessouslavy
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$1,141
Bouquet de fleurs dans un joli vase vert
Pierre Jaques
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,780
A scent of evening for You
Joanna Sierko-Filipowska
Painting - 87 x 127 x 5 cm Painting - 34.3 x 50 x 2 inch
$28,291
Dame au parapet
Giuseppe De Santis
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,831
Château de cartes
François Xavier Bricard
Painting - 68.5 x 55.5 x 2 cm Painting - 27 x 21.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,027
Kuluso (Ant-Lion Larvae)
Adegbenro Adeola
Painting - 147.3 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 58 x 46 x 1 inch
$5,000
Arrives on Island of Sangaldip
Viraj Mithani
Painting - 157 x 121 x 2 cm Painting - 61.8 x 47.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,035
Woman Touring the Cosmos
Ezu Zapata Urrutiabeascoa
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,928
Gobelin Story
Wioletta Jaskólska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,413
S. Spiridione Protettore Dei Ladri
Albert Joseph Januarius Di Décarli
Painting - 19.5 x 63 x 1 cm Painting - 7.7 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,369
Bouquet de fleurs
Alexis Louis Roche
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,027
Nature morte aux paniers d'osier
Pierre Jouffroy
Painting - 60 x 72.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,837
Nature morte bouquet de fleurs
Taki Kawa
Painting - 35 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Into the valley
Ingegerd K Westin
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,979
Still life of flowers in cases
Giuseppe Salvini
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$656
Still life
Ernesto Alcide Campestrini
Painting - 55 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$611
Automne en Bourgogne
Jean-Claude Bligny
Painting - 46 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,924
Openness to vulnerability
Rhett Boland
Painting - 92 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$4,297
Les valses pluvieuses de Jérusalem
Elena Hohlov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,075
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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.