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Flash Art Racconto
Primo Formenti
Painting - 32.5 x 23 x 0.2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
€900
Moiré Indigo (Abstract painting)
Tom Henderson
Painting - 32 x 29 cm Painting - 12.6 x 11.4 inch
€2,450
Gemengde Bos Bloemen
Micheline Kuijer
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
€500
L'apocalypse
Guillaume Bourquin
Painting - 110 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
We live in the Flicker
Katrina Cobb
Painting - 35 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Quatorzième poésie du coeu
Furamaru
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,250
Watered in pink
Annalisa Baumgart
Painting - 70 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,950
Havana: A Cuban Journey
Kea Elisa
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,450
Florida Sunshine
Adriana Urdaneta
Painting - 76.2 x 60.96 x 3 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.2 inch
€1,850
Jumping into the unknown
Oussema Dhahbi
Painting - 81.28 x 91.44 x 3 cm Painting - 32 x 36 x 1.2 inch
€1,650
Iceland - calm after the storm
Oxana Vein
Painting - 60 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,900
Du lointain des embruns
Kaithya H.
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,800
Aláàárù Ajé (Carrier of Wealth)
Ayandare Adeniran Ayanmuyiwa
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,726
Abstract Butterflies
Sarah Boisvert
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,411
My love silence
Eurimer Carolina Loponte
Painting - 30 x 23 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.1 x 1.6 inch
€2,173
Dream Builder (Earth)
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 92 x 64 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.2 x 1 inch
€4,967
La cité du futur
Béatrice Coulibeuf-Espejo
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,590
Floral on a Tile Table
Wayne Ensrud
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 2 inch
€3,835
Close to your lips
Barbara Kieca
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Brown room (channeling my inner Cy Twombly)
Megan Chung
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.2 inch
€750
Age of Byzantium
Tatiana Iliina
Painting - 109.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€2,334
The map of a myth I
Kwok Wai Kwong
Painting - 92 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,850
Contigo Vibro
Carol Tomàs Alcaine
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
€800
El error es una fiesta 1
Guadalupe
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,645
Floating Abstraction / Serie 1 N°6
Ellya Zilsky
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€4,331
Rose in an abstract world
Agata Lewandowska Mista
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,951
Gems under the golden river
Seon Yoo
Painting - 60 x 91 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 x 0.6 inch
€2,138
Two person
Roswitha Schumacher-Kuckelkorn
Painting - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€2,366
Live every moment
Christopher Damien Fox
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
€3,257
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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.