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Cityscape with red tram
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£260 £221
Still life with bird and key
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£244 £207
Still life with birds and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£244 £207
Still life with sparrow and grapes
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£244 £207
Quintet of elegance
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 20 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
£260 £221
Crimson harvest
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£244 £207
Chrysanthemums in vase
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£293 £249
Landscape - Ararat
Samvel Atasunts
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£244 £207
Before Performance
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£285 £242
Still life with pomegranates and grape
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£114 £97
Still life with pomegranates and grapes
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£114 £97
Still life with fruits
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£309 £263
Woman with the mirror
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£285 £242
Klyazma, 1/05/2022, 17h28
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,661
Vaga, 8/10/2021, 14h41
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,661
Yantarnoe, 23/02/2021, 18h55
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,661
Compiègne, 17/11/2019, 16h17
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,661
Chantilly, 14/11/2019, 19h02
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,661
N° 1220 Talmont. Eglise Sainte Radegonde.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£532
N° 1117 Belgrade 14. Eglise orthodoxe de Saint-Sava A
R. Cavalié
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£444
N° 1213 La Rochelle. Pointe des Minimes
R. Cavalié
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£399
White Paris Nuit blanche Night-club 1969 Sleepless night, The night club
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
£1,730 £865
Everyday life
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 30 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,219 £1,036
Waiting for the third
Liana Asatryan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£488 £415
N° 109 Baalbek. Temple de Vénus 2.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2.4 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.9 inch
£532
N° 108 Baalbek. Temple de Vénus 1
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£444
Garden With Mozart Statue
Tsisia Kiladze
Painting - 20 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
£488
Points de droites en noirs et blancs
Claude Mignerey
Painting - 60 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
£20,758
Night Venice
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,219
Blooming Apple Orchard
Yehor Dulin
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,870
The Journey
Atom Hovhanesyan
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.75 inch
£36,580
Art of Rain - Spring
Hannelore Bueki
Painting - 114 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
£6,964
Portrait du poète russe Ivanov
Mady Epstein
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£999
Drawings for invisible hands #2
Sooyeon Hong
Painting - 78.7 x 54.4 cm Painting - 31 x 21.4 inch
£2,683
Nighttime Township
Christine Drummond
Painting - 61 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 inch
£2,845
Dragon Sleeps in the Heaven of Flowers
Li Lei
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
£18,629
Camelot, Oil Paint, Colored Graphite on Panel Painting
Doug Frohman
Painting - 106.7 x 106.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 42 x 42 x 2 inch
£6,178
Self-portrait in a mask
Kamila Gruszecka
Painting - 72 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,331
XXXL Abstract Antarctica (Diptych)
Susan Wooler
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,158
Abstract Painting Series 2
Cao Fan
Painting - 77 x 57 x 3 cm Painting - 30.3 x 22.4 x 1.2 inch
£4,436
The wisdom of time
Lilly Sotirova
Painting - 85 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,508
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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.