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Smoky Election Promises
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€36,000
Peindre au temps du Covid
Hélène Sorel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€380
Le soleil est dans tes yeux - I
Leona Rose
Painting - 130 x 103 cm Painting - 51.2 x 40.6 inch
€3,500
Hannya One: The burden of darkness, the promise of light
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
€1,550
Smooth Operator
John Herbert Wright
Painting - 137.2 x 147.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54 x 58 x 1 inch
€9,595
Fred Kennedys
Monsieur GrandGrandGrand
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,590
Malecon 15 años
Luis Miguel Valdes
Painting - 199.9 x 460 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 181.1 x 0.1 inch
€24,946
Marilyn crying (Fire red)
Russell Young
Painting - 66 x 50.8 x 4 cm Painting - 26 x 20 x 1.6 inch
€18,000
Je suis le chien flottant dans ton cosmos
Lionel Sourisseau
Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0 inch
€800
Tout va bien dans le meilleur des mondes
Patrick Dumas
Painting - 175 x 220 x 5 cm Painting - 68.9 x 86.6 x 2 inch
€5,000
Anonyme, le musicien
Azeddine Essaouira
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
€228
Sans titre
Michael Nelson Tjakamarra
Painting - 91 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Paix et liberté pour tous
Glauc'
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
America's Greed
Matthew Sadergaski
Painting - 30.5 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 8 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Looking past the Magnolia Tree
Ken Done
Painting - 121 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 47.6 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
€12,192
By the river
Tomasz Kolodziejczyk
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Transformation through the imagination of lovers VI
Cordula Rock
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€5,500
Metsuki, expresar atraves de la mirada
Suca
Painting - 40 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,550
Raccordement
Mehdi Cibille Le MoDuLe De ZeeR
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,998
Girl and Two Suitors
Hugo Kysilka
Painting - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Claudia Schiffer
Moa Daliendog
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€3,500 €3,150
The lost Caspar David II.
Christine Keruth
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
€9,542
Caminos que vienen y van
Regina Lotti
Painting - 100 x 180 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 70.9 x 2 inch
€7,290
Doh nuts
Damien Pierron (dit K-Libre)
Painting - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
€980
In times like this
Dennis Onofua
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€4,797
Choice with whom to be...
Tetiana Kalivoshko
Painting - 145 x 137 x 4 cm Painting - 57.1 x 53.9 x 1.6 inch
€9,595
Long live the queen
Alexandar Inchovski
Painting - 87 x 58 x 3 cm Painting - 34.3 x 22.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Argnac - Composition abstraite
Murielle Vallot dite MucheArt
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€225
Street musicians Oslo
Tom Russell
Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31 x 31 x 2 inch
€3,838
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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.