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Memories of Sofia
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,174
Horizontal view over the sea - Positano painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$531
Vertical view over the sea - Positano painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$531
Descent to Ravello - Amalfitan Coast painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$363
View of the gulf - Sorrento painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Window on Posillipo - Naples painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$363
Tulips on a Yellow Table
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,400
Blue night
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Turquoise
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900 $720
Rocky shores
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
A Domestic Still Life Composition
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,500
Black sea
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900 $675
El reencuentro de las almas
Pato Reichler
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,621
Sunny day in the mountains
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$950 $760
Portrait of Silence
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,500
Wild flowers bouquet
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
Surrounded by fantasy
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Mysterious lake
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 46 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
Full moon in green
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
Red colors of sunset
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Venice in silver
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 45 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$1,200
Moonrise
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
On the beach
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
At midnight
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 31 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
$900
Faint sound of wings
Rieko Kuriyama
Painting - 33.3 x 33.3 x 3 cm Painting - 13.1 x 13.1 x 1.2 inch
$671
To far away flower
Rieko Kuriyama
Painting - 41 x 31.8 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.5 x 1.2 inch
$671
Red night
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Floral harmony - Italian painting & frame
Bruno Tinucci
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$811
Light of the sunset
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$900
Night reflections
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
Summer night
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900 $675
Cloudy night
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$900
Studio Lane 2
HowardArthur Tweedie
Painting - 48 x 36 x 3 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,453
Still Life Tomato and Pear
HowardArthur Tweedie
Painting - 37 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 14.6 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,621
26 février 2020
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
10 septembre 2013
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,006
3 novembre 2017
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 52 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,677
2 janvier 2018
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 45 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,565
Preparation for the New Day
Falope Ibrahim
Painting - 105.9 x 75.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 41.7 x 29.9 x 1 inch
$2,250
Le chaperon rouge de Boston
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 116 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.6 inch
$2,795
Rampant horse on the sea - Italian painting & frame
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$727
La nuit de l'iceberg
Marie Détrée
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,037
Seascape wave and cloud
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 72 x 103 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,353
Repetition, Series of Ballerinas
Ramaz Chantladze
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,031
The lost world
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,460
Vase with yellow roses - Italian painting
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$950
Sacré-Coeur - Paris - série Architecture
Laurent Lamare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,913
Le Chalut - Bretagne - série Paysage marin et bateaux
Laurent Lamare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,913
Les Roches - Villa de Roches Brunes - Dinard - 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
$3,913
Mulled wine time
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,242
Serious danger
Mathieu Questel
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.18 x 38.19 x 1 inch
$3,913
Folding Form III (Case Yellow)
Jeremy Annear
Painting - 108 x 88 x 0.1 cm Painting - 42.5 x 34.6 x 0 inch
$24,579
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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.