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Wildebeest migration
Gabrielle Pool
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$7,785
And The Dream Lingers On
Maurice Sapiro
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 2 inch
$4,375
Journée flânerie
Christian Raffin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,580
Carpets from Provence
Alexandr Reznichenko
Painting - 180 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$10,995
Marchande de poissons
Jean-Paul Debout
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
Vase of Flowers
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 49 x 39 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15.4 x 0.2 inch
$4,039 $3,635
Spring, Impressionist Painting
Duong Viet Nam
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
$8,000
Early Spring Colorful Impressionist Painting
Duong Viet Nam
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
$5,500
Old Village Greece
Natalia Tretyakova
Painting - 60 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,468
Morning in Baklave
Natalia Tretyakova
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,289
Tropiques-perroquet
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Kristenboch Park 1
Corine Lescop
Painting - 95 x 180 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 70.9 x 1 inch
$6,507 $5,531
HACHIOJI’S NOCTURNAL WHISPERS : JOURNEY TO THE SUBLIME
Hiro Ando
Painting - 90 x 112 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 44.1 x 1.2 inch
$5,049
Kokusai Sojourn : Samurai Cat's Midnight Cruise
Hiro Ando
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,824
Purple Twilight Ballet : Orchids and Shadows in Battle Symphony
Hiro Ando
Painting - 80 x 107 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 42.1 x 2 inch
$4,488
109 BLOSSOMS IN BATTLE SYMPHONY : MIDNIGHT SONATA
Hiro Ando
Painting - 90 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$5,049
TOKYO’S NOCTURNAL NAVIGATION : GUIDING LIGHTS
Hiro Ando
Painting - 80 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,039
Cap-Carpiagne
Nicolas Curmer
Painting - 185 x 250 x 7 cm Painting - 72.8 x 98.4 x 2.8 inch
$6,731 $5,722
I don't picture what you see
Trevor Kiernander
Painting - 66 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 26 x 32 x 2 inch
$5,497
Red Riding Hood with Buggy
Martin Kerntke
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$10,195
Couple Parmi des Roses
Mercedes Aparicio
Painting - 34 x 24 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 9.4 x 1 inch
$2,805 $2,384
Marine - Mer de Cantabrie
Mercedes Aparicio
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
$5,497
Draw The Table - The Secret Life
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,590
Warm Evening
Alexandr Reznichenko
Painting - 80 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,049
Walkway at Midday
Alexandr Reznichenko
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,927
The Bird Flies To God, The God Name Is Abraxas
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$10,000
The Cosmos In A Garden, A Garden In The Cosmos
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 145 x 145 x 5 cm Painting - 57.1 x 57.1 x 2 inch
$13,000
Tracing A River To Its Source, You Will Find Yourself In The Sky
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 162 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$15,000
Citizens Of A Commune Making A New World
Hiromi Sengoku
Painting - 130 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$14,000
Champagne on deck
Anne Ravliuc Bloomfield
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,883
The Constellation of Impossibles
Mireille Lopez
Painting - 100 x 200 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 inch
$5,049
Etretat, Falaise, plage en Normandie avec voiliers
Alkaplan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,507
Reproduction of “Singing Boy with Flute” by Frans Hals
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 70 x 55 cm Painting - 27.6 x 21.7 inch
$2,460 $2,214
Bateaux près de Sète Marine
Pierre-Jean Llado
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,019
Petits Coeurs Rouges
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$438 $219
Petits Coeurs Bleus
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$438 $219
Coquelicots et soucis
Michel Vezinet
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
The Theatre Stage
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$16,268
Le souffle du vent
Christian Vidal
Painting - 50 x 33 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13 x 0.2 inch
$2,132
Abstraction géométrique
Christian De Cambiaire
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,263
Untitled (3) (1)
Magdalena Segovia
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,805
Rendez-vous à Beaubourg
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
A l'heure d'Orsay
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
Taylor Swift's Butterflies
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$168
Taylor Swift's Summer Butterflies (Papillons d'Eté)
Christian Jodin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$280
About last night, encore et encore
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$898
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
Walk in the sky - blue pink geometry abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,346
Minimal Forms 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$650
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.