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Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,811
Back to Autumn
Farrukh Negmatzade
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,641
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Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,018
Abstract R 2419
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$3,592 $2,515
Corpuscular - wave dualism
Elena Furgal
Painting - 39.8 x 29.7 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.7 x 1.2 inch
$8,770
Pop Flower Galactic 2
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$170
Pop Flower Galactic
Priscilla Vettese
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$226
La médaille - Histoire et Politique
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$498
L'oiseau bleu - Symbolique et conscience collective
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$283
L'oiseau rouge - série animaux
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$283
La Serrure - Symbolique et conscience collective
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$990
Le camp détruit - Histoire et Politique
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$990
La clé de la maison - symbolique et conscience collective
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$990
Evening with Mia
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,829
Two Kinds of Life 2
Dunmade Ayegbayo
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$950
Two Kinds of Life 1
Dunmade Ayegbayo
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$950
Landscaping-CVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$113 $102
Just rainy-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$136 $122
Embracing the sunset
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,546
Arbre de vie et papillons
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$27,159
Feu d'artifice
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$22,633
Matière à rêver
Françoise Danel
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,413
Remembering the Summer of 2015,
Pavel Janouškovec
Painting - 65 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$2,490
Blue Portrait
Aaron Labin (Grigoryan)
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$565
Portrait sur fond blanc
Changzheng Zhu
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$2,376
Jeune fille à la boucle
Changzheng Zhu
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$883
Émane Sens
Jérôme Sorolla "Le parrain des arts"
Painting - 100 x 104 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 40.9 x 1 inch
$2,263
Diagonal Composition 4
Lucie Jirku
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,800
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Sonic (Jesse Rodriguez)
Painting - 106.5 x 150 x 0.2 cm Painting - 41.9 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,829 $2,263
Discussion Abstrait #20
Françoise Danel
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,300
Le trèfle bleu et blanc #19
Françoise Danel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2.2 inch
$1,697
Abstrait "Les dondons" #17
Françoise Danel
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$430
Abstrait #18 Trio de trèfles
Françoise Danel
Painting - 20 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$566
Abstrait Forme jaune et noire #9
Françoise Danel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$396
Ensemble de feuilles ou de papillons #2
Françoise Danel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$396
"La rouille et les bateaux" acrylique oxydation châssis lin livré caisse en bois coût coûtant
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Leslie Berthet Laval
Painting - 100 x 100 x 100 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 39.4 inch
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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.