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Sarve Abarghoo série n°1
Ibrahim Ganjian
Painting - 180 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
£3,548
A Peaceful Place
Dimitri Godycki Cwirko
Painting - 50 x 83 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 32.7 x 1 inch
£3,105
Silent Scream
Mihai Alexandru Haita
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,712
1958 Oiseau Bird
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 75 x 54 x 0.75 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.3 x 0.3 inch
£843 £758
Under the Bridge
Karin Anita Morris
Painting - 76.5 x 51 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30.1 x 20.1 x 1.5 inch
£1,996
Dans la Lumière - Série New York
Marianne Dencausse
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,703
A Girl With a Knitted Cap
Miyuki Takanashi
Painting - 72.7 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 28.6 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
£3,016
Velvet Befriended Artemis
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2.2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch
£1,153
Onde vibratoire jaune
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,242
Migration 4, Jour 1
Patrice Palacio
Painting - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
£2,839
N.Y. y el rio Hudson
Alejandro Quincoces
Painting - 121 x 175 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 68.9 x 1.2 inch
£15,081
Dispersed Dense Lines
Ya-Ping Dong
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,419
1981 Composition II
Choi TAI SHIN
Painting - 91 x 71 x 0.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28 x 0.2 inch
£1,020
Le vent du large, voilier
Corinne Vilcaz
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,552
Evident in harmony
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
£4,877 £4,390
Here Comes the Night II--Blue
Jo Moore
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.8 inch
£1,463
Distorted Landscape 2
Silvia Popova
Painting - 96 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
£1,251
Control Attempt #21. Jealousy
Dasha Buben
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.7 inch
£887
Global Warming - People of the Jungle
Svetli Evgeniev
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£523
Puy de Dôme sous la neige
Françoise Lavenu
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,171
Pitcher Crystal
Antonio Scordia
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.3 inch
£1,065
Geometric Composition
Aldo Moriconi
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
£1,331
Landscape in desintegration
Bibiana Ulanosky
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,712
Plateforme Environnementale
Serge Salis
Painting - 29.5 x 39.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 15.6 x 0.2 inch
£577
Majestic beach Lov in Blue P2017 1033
Aldema Design & Art
Painting - 200 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,258
Optical composition
Carlo Montesi
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£1,597
Winter Landscape 1
Gernot Kissel
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£5,500 £4,675
Blooming Water Lilies
Diana Malivani
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£11,976
La Ragione della Contesa
Mirtilla Durante
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,065
Sans titre
Marie-France de la Cochetière (Titus)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,171
MIYUKI 5 : MISTY PURPLE WHISPERS AND KAWAII TEMPTATION
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
£1,863
Requiem for Missing Ships
Dimitar Cholakov
Painting - 110 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,198
Chromatic Harmony
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
£732
Yo quiero... Yo quiero
Carmen Cañadas
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£2,728
Listening to Beethoven while ironing
Petra Schott
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,550
Farewell to Fremantle
Margarita Voynova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,331
Ulmus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,442
Le grand départ
Benoît Montet
Painting - 59.9 x 39.9 x 2.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.1 inch
£1,944
Red Sky in the Morning
Maurice Sapiro
Painting - 40.6 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 16 x 18 x 2 inch
£2,395
Autoportrait 1964 Selfportrait, L'idole The idol
Esther Hess
Painting - 56 x 46 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 0.2 inch
£1,552
Evasion vers... - Abstraction
Pierre Damster
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£727
Schnappschuss 1706
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,065
Blue Plastic Bags Roadside African Bushes
Martin Kerntke
Painting - 120 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 0.8 inch
£11,463
Bavière Pervers
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£4,613
Les deux péniches - série bord de seine
Michel de Alvis
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,437
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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.