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Burst of happiness
Weronica Dylag
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.6 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,159
Oceanic View
Andrew David Grammer
Painting - 40 x 58.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.1 x 1 inch
$1,890
Identità marine 02
Antonio Bettuelli
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,159
Darling, My Mind Is a Misty Mountain
Rakel Routarinne
Painting - 23 x 23 x 0.4 cm Painting - 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,980
Benjami
Stephen Irving (Zero Gradient)
Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,100
Bouquet de fleurs et coupe de fruits
Raya Safir
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$615 $462
Sans titre - Série abstraction
Ouiza Hamoudi
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$912
Du - dedicated to the one who cares 4U
Manomono
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,013
Still life with yellow
Chris Kamprad
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,014
A summer dream
Francesca Autino
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,890
The Subtlety of Frames
Chuck Jones, PhD
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
$2,099
Days and nights on the rocks
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,280
A girl who knows all emotions
Akila Hanada
Painting - 15 x 15 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inch
$1,907
Days Departed Impasse #5
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,099
Timeless thought
Sabrina Jeannine Rahn
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,801
Harmony & chaos
Anneta Papagianni
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,765
To me, you are perfect
Luise Juliana Ellerbrock
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,890
Confessions rétro-éclairées
Thomas Wolfgang Baenke
Painting - 40.5 x 29.5 cm Painting - 15.9 x 11.6 inch
$2,796
La Ragione della Contesa
Mirtilla Durante
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,342
Beauty and the Beast
Elena Samarsky
Painting - 40.6 x 30.4 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$1,980
Tension
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,655
Scribble Dream
Charlotte Hannah Crawford
Painting - 81 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,790
Kindred
Ian Alexander Bailey
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.905 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
En Avant, Marche ou Tombe
Alexandra Delya
Painting - 80 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
$1,790
Requiem for Missing Ships
Dimitar Cholakov
Painting - 110 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,510
Oceanic Orchestra
Janice Rogers
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,745
Eglogue citadine II
Rose Passalboni
Painting - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,189
High Hopes Series 2
Silvie Marie Huber
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,622
Floating In My Dreams
Karen Elizabeth Branco
Painting - 101.6 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm Painting - 40 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$2,069
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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.