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L'Oiseau Damoclès (Étude)
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 45 x 28 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 11 x 1.2 inch
$511
La lune qui pleure II
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 27.2 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 10.7 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$443
Les pensées s'envolent
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$168
La lune qui pleure
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$168
Childhood dreams-57
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$320
The Confidant
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$8,000 $7,200
Waiting for the order II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
Let's go hiking
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,345
My garden had a party and i wasn't invited
Valérie Butters
Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,157
Benicio del Toro
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,289
Bouteilles 2
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 82 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$549
Jewel of the Orchard
Sergey Miqayelyan
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$250
Piano fantasy
Ruzanna Melqumyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$480 $408
Mirando al cielo
Marcelo Suaznabar
Painting - 121 x 121 x 6 cm Painting - 47.6 x 47.6 x 2.4 inch
$8,369
Tierra de Los Gauchos: Midnight in the Andes
Ron Connors
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$249
La femme à la licorne
Yannick Aaron
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2.7 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.1 inch
$13,453
Vague Nocturne
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,354
Purple Crocus Elegance
Anush Emiryan
Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$120
Seascape wave and cloud
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 72 x 103 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 40.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,360
Still Life With Sunflowers
Tanya Grinevich
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,691
Pink blooming. Rhododendron.
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$392
A Dash to the Finish Line
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$199
From the Divine Comedy
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 94 x 131 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 51.6 x 1.6 inch
$10,426
Embossed textured orange flowers on a blue backgraund. Still life abstraction
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$504
Colorful Landscape and Mountains
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$320
Sunset Over Skyscrapers
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$400
Crimson Dusk on the Waterfront
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$199
Jazz in the rhythm of red flowers
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$448
Spring colors landscape n°1 - Tuscany painting
Biagio Chiesi
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$465
Whispers of Spring in Rural Repose
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
Flowering of sunflowers - Tuscany painting landscape + frame
Biagio Chiesi
Painting - 30 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$504
De cendre et de rouillle
Bernard Ambielle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,686
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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.