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Flotter - série Paysage abstraite
Claire de Noinville
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
£125
Bouquet et livres
Benjamin II Vautier
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
£900
Reticulum with mask
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,602
Midnight Glamour
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.75 inch
£13,117
Chat et son compagnon
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,202
Concerto d'un Cadinal accompagné de moines
P. Dietrich
Painting - 69 x 98 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.2 x 38.6 x 1 inch
£1,684
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,780
Joy of Twins Mother
Twins Seven Seven
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1 inch
£5,738
The Old Country Refuge
Zhirayr Khachatryan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£492
Shadow on concrete
Polina Izvekova
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,469
The Birth of Venus
Jeremy Bianco
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,382
The stream of water lilies - Italian painting & frame
Bruno Tinucci
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£757
War and Peace
Sebastian Picker
Painting - 100 x 240 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 94.5 x 0.4 inch
£15,130
Free Fall Abstract n°542
Harry James Moody
Painting - 86.4 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 34 x 20 x 2 inch
£1,157
Benicio del Toro
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,024
Lavender & Poppies - Tuscany landscape painting
Gino Masini
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£267
Las ciudades y el mar XVIII
Martínez Buades Ramón
Painting - 180 x 180 x 3.5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.4 inch
£4,450
Frida’s Tribal Journey
Jules Holland
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2.2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.9 inch
£4,895
Vineyard in San Gimignano - Tuscany painting & handmade frame
Bruno Chirici
Painting - 40 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
£312
Man in the fields
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 49 x 64 x 0.4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
£1,068
A l'orée du village
Charles Émile Moïse Hornung
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£990
Dinard - La ronde de la Malouine - série Paysage de bord de mer Bretagne
Laurent Lamare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,115 £2,804
Flowering on baroque gate - Italian painting
Giuseppe Landi
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£556
Summer fields III
Christine Staehelin
Painting - 33.5 x 25.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.2 x 10 x 0.8 inch
£1,157
Rotterdam et moi 1
Marian Williams
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,626
Lights on the coast - Southern Italy painting & frame
Vittorio Colucci
Painting - 25 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£312
Face cachée
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
£245
Bouquet printanier en carafe
Alexis Louis Roche
Painting - 45.7 x 55 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 21.7 x 0.2 inch
£864
Parisian city life - France Belle Epoque painting + frame
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£636
Le fond de ma tasse de café (1)
Andisheh Moghtaderpour
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
£169
Alexandria’s Genesis
Paris Sergiou
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£1,113
Distance
Alexandre Monteiro (Hopare)
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£8,010
Un parfum flotte dans l'air
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 1 inch
£694
Femme au champ préparant un cheval de trait
Léon Georges Calves
Painting - 27 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
£810
Scène de rue en soirée
Fausto Zonaro
Painting - 28.5 x 36 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.2 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
£1,666
Surrounded by four clouds
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 121.92 x 116.84 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 46 x 1.2 inch
£2,715
Sunset snowed in Paris - France Belle Epoque painting + frame
Francesco Tammaro
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£725
Marché : Les Choux
Olivier Daumas
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,335
SN7 Arqueología de lo que escondo.
David Murcia
Painting - 195 x 195 x 4 cm Painting - 76.8 x 76.8 x 1.6 inch
£6,720
Ines IV, Abstract Painting From the Ines series
Clemens Wolf
Painting - 190 x 140 x 2.5 cm Painting - 74.8 x 55.1 x 1 inch
£13,239
Big May West
Jacinthe Rivard
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
£1,816 £1,543
Jeteuse de sort
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£2,403
Refracted Visage 1
Niall Pickvance
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,914
Where the tower is
Rieko Kuriyama
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
£757
Ponte di Rialto - Venice painting
Antonio Sgarbossa
Painting - 85 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
£699
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Abstract Energy (Energie Abstraite)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
£1,331
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£820
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,068
Lecture en bleu majeur
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,771
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.
What is special about oil painting?
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.
What's the difference between oil painting and acrylic?
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.
Is oil painting easier than watercolor?
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.