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Contrebasdiste Tentaculaire
Delphine Portier
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Frétillements frénétiques
Arnaud Dromigny
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$591
Turbulences
Didier Merlin
Painting - 150 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,274 $2,046
Abstraction 7
Marie Dominique Ferracci
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
Keith Haring Tableau cinétique
Pierre Lamblin
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,842
Split Cell - Concentric Lines I
Peggy Bell
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,336
L'Allée Accueillante
Juliette Lamarca
Painting - 27 x 19 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 7.5 x 0.8 inch
$512
Powder Blue Morning - abstract textured floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$921
Empêcher que le monde ne se défasse
Jean-Roch Klethi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$978
Arbres sur ciel or
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,023
Entre el Cel i la Terra
Marta Carceller
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,217
The Childhood of Chaos 10 original masterpiece O Kloska (1977)
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,364
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
$2,046
Composition végétale 2
Jim Bird
Painting - 56 x 75 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,705 $1,194
High states
Rudy Dougbe (PRO 176)
Painting - 92 x 92 x 5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 2 inch
$4,547 $4,092
Apparition X
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Homeless in Paris
Blek Le Rat
Painting - 161.29 x 129.54 x 2.54 cm Painting - 63.5 x 51 x 1 inch
$45,000
Silence of being
Mayra AleJandra Lifischtz
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,450
Lady with Watch (Femme à la Montre)
Gerard Boersma
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$443
The vineyard road - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$369
Sur la route de Cuzco
Dominique Kennel
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$500
Just The 2 Of Us X
Paul Akiiki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.3 inch
$4,000
General Luna Siargao, Philippines
Inha Arceo
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,467
Trio de bateaux
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,080
Let Go Let Live #2
Niki Stearman
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,800
Hollandale, Mississippi 1927
Maarten Demmink
Painting - 24 x 33 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$1,137
Aligner Pellageiyia
Philippe Halaburda
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0 inch
$5,406
Grand éclat bleu et noir
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$398
Ballerina no. 1, Series XXIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$739
Summer sunset on the coast - Positano painting
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$938
Paysages abstraits 6
Qiong qiong Shao
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,023
The Symphony Of Nature
Sara Margolin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$681
Ancestors in the cosmos
Lajah Sage Warren
Painting - 55 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,023
Art for your “Soul”
Anastasiia Dushak
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$818
Take Me There - Aerial Australia - Shark Bay #3
Ana Hefco
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$6,900
Hommage à Bernard Buffet
Gully
Painting - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$21,599
Self Portrait Prize Kid
Troy Henriksen
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 1 inch
$341
Once Given a White Rose 1
Agbalaya Abdulahi Opeyemi
Painting - 33 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13 x 10 x 1 inch
$650
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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.