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Maison moderniste
Jordi Santacana
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,345
French School -Portrait Summer La Baule 9 -Idleness Therapy XL Impressionist
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$3,139 $2,574
The girl from Ipanema
Axelle Sodade
Painting - 130 x 89 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 1.4 inch
$4,686
Yellow Fantasy VII
Aaron Labin (Grigoryan)
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$559
Fragmentation
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$639
Enjoy your style
Patricia Gadisseur
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,682
Compo ivoire et bleue
Bernard Neulat
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$561
Urban monster (a tribute to Basquiat)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$100
The space mission
Samuel Bloch
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,345 $1,278
Mediterranean coast
Francesc Casademont
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
Belle d'Orchidees
Marie-Claude Bisson
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$1,682
A Bird out of Merlin's Ear
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,386
Spring in the garden of Eden - blossoms, spring in France, flowers garden
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,241
Dieppe Series 2.0 / II
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
$359
Vegetal atmosphere
Emily Starck
Painting - 110 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,128 $2,753
Silence, on tourne
Sabine Louriac
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$561
Collection Hiver éternel - "Paint in black - Lights in the nineties"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,018
Window view 11 - Wipe left
Low Bros
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$9,641
Ayeta (Bulletproof)
Abiola Olabamiji
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,849
Orange on the coast
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,233
Porsche 911-930 Supersport back
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,065
Blossoms of Strength 1
Gobe Joseph
Painting - 137.2 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54 x 35 x 1 inch
$5,299
Herramienta en Amarillo. From The Composition with Tools series
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Dyptic Champagne ou Les bules ce soir
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,709
The dance of a star
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,233
Tranquility
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,750 $1,575
Natural Flow Series n13. From the Natural Flow series
Rosario Briones
Painting - 104.9 x 68.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 26.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,600
Life and Smile
Giuseppe Bartocci
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,682
Red Rose of the Revolution
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$561
Variations cinétiques 2
Piero Cipolat
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,312 $1,181
Explosion de couleurs
Christiane Guerry
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,121
A day at the beach
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.8 inch
$9,600
Hamburgers French Fries and Cigarettes
Katherine Bernhardt
Painting - 182.8 x 152.1 x 2.54 cm Painting - 72 x 59.9 x 1 inch
$180,000
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Acrylic Painting for Sale
Acrylic painting is a pictorial technique which is widely popular in today's art world. It uses a synthetic paint and its paste is made of pigments which are similar to those found in oil painting. It is emulsified with water and mixed with resin which binds them together.
Although the current success of acrylic paint is undeniable, its invention is nonetheless relatively recent in the history of painting. It was first developed in the 1930s in the United States. The advantages of this new technique (durability, solidity, quick to dry) were initially put to use in the industrial, construction and automobile sectors. In 1949, the printers Leonor Colour and Sam Golden decided to commercialise the invention and target artists thanks to the paint brand Magma.
At the same time, chemists at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico were also developing its texture, working alongside expert muralists who used it to create the mural and fresco paintings on the Mexico University's façade.
The material was embraced by the art world with important representatives of abstract expressionism, including Kooning, Rothko and Morris Louis using it in their work. But it was in 1963 that acrylic paint truly conquered the art world under the commercial brand name Liquitex, thanks to the innovations of Henry Levinson who made the paint dilutable with water and not just turpentine spirit.
Thanks to this, the paint became easier to work with, and more importantly, more accessible. It quickly became the favourite medium of Pop Art legends such as the painters Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Previously ignored in favor of oil painting which continued to be a symbol of the fine arts par excellence, acrylic painting benefited from the influence of these big names. Mindsets gradually changed and acrylic paint continued to seduce an ever growing audience of creators.
Originally an exclusively American privilege, the paint was exported to Europe around 1965. This was mainly thanks to the Belgian painter Pierre Alechinsky who played a role in making it popular among the Western European Surrealist circles after he returned from New York. Joan Miró and Max Ernst also demonstrated a preference for the medium, which had in the meantime become a legitimate alternative to oil painting.
The two canvas painting techniques conflict with each other in several ways. Many see acrylic paint as a material which corresponds better to the fast-paced modernity of our times. Whilst oil painting requires a tremendous amount of patience and and can crack when drying, acrylic paint dries quickly, does not need varnishing, is highly waterproof and most importantly, can be conserved more easily.
Acrylic resin can also be adapted to all kinds of supports, whether it be glass or fabric, and its texture allows the artist to play intricately with the thickness and reliefs without having to worry about the chromatic purity of the palette. The works of the contemporary painters John Kokkinos, Julien Colombier and Maude Ovize are all examples of the use of the medium in artworks today.
Acrylic paint has a wide range of usages. It can be used on surfaces such as wood, canvas, paper, ceramics and metal. It is used for both fine and decorative arts.
To create an acrylic painting, you will need a surface to paint on, some acrylic paint, and a tool to apply the paint to the surface with, such as a brush or sponge. You can plan the composition of the work beforehand, or apply the paint directly to the canvas in order to achieve the desired result.
Certain types of acrylic paints can contain toxins within their ingredients, similarly to oil paints. Acrylic paint dries quickly so it can be hard to go back and alter an acrylic painting. We also do not know how long acrylic paints last for, as they have only been around for abotu 50 years.