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Copenhagen.Spring morning
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Lace of April. House near Oslo fjord.
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 65 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
North. Sunset in Henningsvær
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
North. Northern blue.
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
North.Norwegian mosaic
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
North. At the foot of the high mountains.
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€850
Far from the big land
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 61 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,990
Autumn still life
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Sunflowers in a blue vase
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Roses and bandits
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Flower round dance 3
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€860
Flower round dance 1
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€860
Still- life with lilac
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
A pond with water lilies and irises1
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 40 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€860
A pond with water lilies and irises 2
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 40 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€860
A pond with water lilies and irises 4
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 40 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€860
A pond with water lilies and irises 3
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 40 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€900
Flower round dance 2
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€860
Clouds over Nyhavn
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Transcender son esprit
Clara Crespin
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Layer city 11
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 100.1 x 139.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55 x 1 inch
€2,124
Lead from the heart
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 inch
€869 €695
Our Situation Shouldn't Define Us
Emmanuel Ojebola
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€5,408
Tactile memory #138
Natasha Zupan
Painting - 69.9 x 59.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 27.5 x 23.6 x 3 inch
€6,566
Beautiful Rebellion / True 027
Casey Grace
Painting - 15.24 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm Painting - 6 x 6 x 1 inch
€1,050
Le vol des pigeons
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Une histoire de toits 1
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€650
Les chagrin des Dieux - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 100 x 195 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 76.8 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
Portrait PS 221 L'endormie Immobile perle de bleux (Large)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,931
Pennyfield Close
George Pinder
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.9 inch
€4,090
Le bassin exotique
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,800
Love you New York
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,750
L'Empire State Building (Vue 4)
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,750
Circé 2.0
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 162 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Out of the blue 04
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 66 x 167.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 26 x 66 x 1 inch
€917 €734
Vue sur les toits - vue 12
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Still life with birds
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
€869
"Vue sur les toits " vue 10
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Nouveau départ 2
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,750
Where you are
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
€869 €695
You can’t be replaced
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 2 inch
€869 €695
Au Coin du Feu
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Over the rooftops of Paris
Volodymyr Kolesnyk
Painting - 53 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,550
Pont des arts
Volodymyr Kolesnyk
Painting - 35 x 70.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 27.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Subway passangers
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 50 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 1.2 inch
€600
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Abstract Energy (Energie Abstraite)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€1,495 €897
The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,159
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€966
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,200
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
€1,300
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.