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A Theroy of Evolution
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$2,050
Modern spectra and lights (With Teal)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,230
Evergreen Garden (Silver lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$1,300
Like nothing else (Experimental garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$1,300
Forest and light trails
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 66 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35 x 26 x 0.7 inch
$2,000
Natures imagery (scattering colors) 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.5 inch
$1,970
Waterflow (Night Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,020
Frozen Waterflow (Ice ponds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,020
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 32
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,020
Orange lights and shadows
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Crystalline dawn panorama
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,030
Coral Sunset (Red Reflection)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$1,750
High frequency garden 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 86.4 x 71.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 28 x 0.7 inch
$1,700
Magenta panorama (Flowering)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Iridescent night (Purple red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Forest and light trails 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Yellow Reunion (Lost Lights) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Caribbean waters (Cool Blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Intermittent Dreams 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Intermittent Dreams 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Intermittent Dreams 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Split panorama 2 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 3 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 4 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 5 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Red valley (Heat wave)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Many miles offshore,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Double imagery (reflective pool),
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
A Time To Imagine 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,025
Double Imagery (Forest Pond), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,035
Ultra radiant fire spectra
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,920
Radiant purple synergy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,920
Drizzles Ave., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,920
In Between Seasons 3,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 1.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.5 inch
$1,585
Where sounds disappear 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$1,670
Les couleurs du paradis
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Rooted Like Trees - Marks And Pools
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
Autumn Leaves - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,550
Walk With Nature No 1 - Perspectives
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,200
Turn Away - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,395
There Is A Wilderness - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,400
Solitary Sea Bird - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,480
Being Myself - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 66 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 26 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,570
That Wild Country - Wild
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
I Need The Sunshine - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,420
My Imagination - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,040
Who Hears Music - Solitude
Melissa McGill
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$960
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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.