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Darklove VI
Martínez Buades Ramón
Painting - 180 x 180 x 3.5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.4 inch
€5,000
Deserving More
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44 x 1 inch
€2,704
Running with Birds
Angelo Pioppo
Painting - 33 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€760 €418
Je ne me sens plus de joie #25
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,800
Je ne me sens plus de joie #10
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
Je ne me sens plus de joie #12
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
Fierce Fabrication 1
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 113 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44.5 x 1 inch
€2,704
Wetin Man Go Do
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 113 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44.5 x 1 inch
€2,704 €2,433
29 octobre 2019
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Rotterdam et moi 3
Marian Williams
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,950
Pointview from the terrace - Amalfi Italy painting
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€325
La Villa - Bénodet - série Paysage de Bretagne
Laurent Lamare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Seaside with flowers vertical version - Positano painting + frame
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Jazz in the rhythm of red flowers
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€400
Tree of life and Fertility (1)
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 30 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€560
Symphonie
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€220
Finale
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€275
Allegro
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€190
Vers l'inconnu
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€220
Rêve
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€275
Embrasement
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€190
Des espoirs
Geneviève Chevalier-Thuillier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€220
Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 180 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€6,600
L'homme de Vitruve
Paskal Hotman
Painting - 106 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 41.7 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,160
Three Whales
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€700
Bouteilles et orange
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€740
Integration of Personality
Khachik Yeghikyan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,800
Integration of Personality
Khachik Yeghikyan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,800
Integration of Personality
Khachik Yeghikyan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,800
Escapade de lumière
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,260
Trouée en lumière
Christine Marie Nobre
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,260
Les pommes de Ste Victoire
Paskal Hotman
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,030
The Mediterranean girl II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Dating in the rain
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Mother Nature
Noyem Khachatryan
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€3,700
Les fleurs pour une inconnue
Volodymyr Kolesnyk
Painting - 100 x 85 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 33.5 x 1 inch
€5,400
Worms - Holy Handgrenade
Arlo Sinclair
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,695
Flowering of sunflowers - Tuscany painting landscape + frame
Biagio Chiesi
Painting - 30 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€450
Echapper - série Composition abstraite
Claire de Noinville
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€140
Jessica Rabbit
Patrice Murciano
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,600
Country flowers path - Tuscany painting landscape + frame
Biagio Chiesi
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€485
Le fond de ma tasse de café (2)
Andisheh Moghtaderpour
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
€190
Foggy morning on Lake Garda
Genia Sheyn
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Fenêtre sur la mer 1
Jenny D'ormond
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
Fenêtre sur la mer 2
Jenny D'ormond
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
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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
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
Evening time
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,159 €927
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
Se cacher dans les herbes
Brigitte Di Scala
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€1,800
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.