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De la série "The Other Place"
Vajid Amini
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,220
Nocturnal seaside Marina - Italian old painting
Alfredo Stengher
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$243
Capri romantic sunset - Southern Italy
Silvio Valli
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$300
Femme au balcon - ref BDNW11479
Janie Michels
Painting - 73 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,467
Flowering panorama - Amalfitan coast painting
Domenico Caiazza
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$509
Swell at sunset - Italian sea painting
Mario Smeraglia
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$283
Old Venice cityscape n°1 - Italian painting
Michele Martini
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$424
LOVE’S DOSE : PILLARS OF PASSION IN COUTURE CAPSULES
Tomomi Mishima
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$7,577
Basket with roses - Italian old painting + frame
Aldo Luxardo
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$396
Robert dans les îles grecques
Frédéric Castaldi
Painting - 100 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
Icescape with figures on the ice...
Rob van Assen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,771
Die Fangschrecke
Wolfgang Häberle
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,053
Run for your Life
Ida Bagus Putu Purwa
Painting - 140 x 200 x 6 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 2.4 inch
$6,785
KAWAII KANJI WHISPERS PURPLE
Ioam Yumako
Painting - 138 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 54.3 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$6,107
Sand barge at Noordwijkerhout
Leo van den Ende
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$3,393
Soccer Players in Central Park
Hilo Chen
Painting - 92.1 x 106.7 cm Painting - 36.25 x 42 inch
$75,000
Paysage Seoul Landscape 1984
Deok Hyu Choi
Painting - 40 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$3,280
Blue hair and my lady
Attasit Pokpong
Painting - 132 x 132 x 3.5 cm Painting - 52 x 52 x 1.4 inch
$23,749
Blue Plate Obsession
Margaret Horvat
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$5,000
Blue Portrait 1979 Collection MMCA National Museum Modern Contemporary Art Seoul
Boong Hyun Choi
Painting - 115 x 88 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 34.6 x 0.1 inch
$14,645
Jerusalem landscape
Adriana Naveh
Painting - 80 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$8,000
Cherries in glass bowl
Ekaterina Gasmi
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,690
Early Stages of the game
Nicky Nodjoumi
Painting - 182.9 x 134.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 72 x 53 x 2 inch
$49,759
Plastic river
Frédéric Vangeebergen
Painting - 127 x 100 x 4.6 cm Painting - 50 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$4,524
Champagne ?
Jean-Jacques Surian
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$12,440
Super Mario Velasques
Alexander Danaesi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,354
Visioni speculari
Vittorio Menditto
Painting - 90 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,940
Landscapes with reeds, the spears
Julio Ramon Serrano Moreno
Painting - 45 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$3,166
241 - Un souvenir qui tangue
Jacques Resch
Painting - 26 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,131
Crépuscule de Loire
Marie-Pierre Autonne
Painting - 101 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 39.8 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,297
Violetta : frosty whispers of lavender dreams
Kaho Nakamura
Painting - 140 x 159 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 62.6 x 2 inch
$7,577
La descente de l'esprit ou essai clinique d'un transhumanisme à visage humain
Bernard Fièvre
Painting - 100 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,827
Femme nue devant la cheminée
Aloys Hugonnet
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,157
Jeune femme posant nue
Maurise Legendre
Painting - 73.5 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,059
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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.
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.
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.
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.