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Happy Days by the Beach
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Not Very Ordered
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3.2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.3 inch
€1,840
The clock is broken
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.3 inch
€980
Flowers, flowers on the wall
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2.8 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 1.1 inch
€1,540
The fairies break their dances/And leave the printed lawn … (A. E. H?usman)
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
€980
Blooming in a sphere
Gergana Tabakova
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,100
Overwhelmingly beautiful life (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Retrato en fondo amarillo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,027
Retrato en fondo azul
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,027
Personajes en fondo verde
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,460
Retrato en fondo rojo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,042
Retrato en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,042
Mon amie la rose
Alice de Miramon
Painting - 32 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
€650 €618
Composición verde
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 135 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 53.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,429
Life you hoped for
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€582
Lueur du nouveau jour - Abstraction cosmique et terrestre
Marie-Claude Gallard (Marieke)
Painting - 100 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€1,625
Écho lointain de la vie - Abstraction cosmique et terrestre
Marie-Claude Gallard (Marieke)
Painting - 75 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€1,875
Lumière de la Terre - Abstraction cosmique et terrestre
Marie-Claude Gallard (Marieke)
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€800
Vibrations de la Terre - Abstraction cosmique et terrestre
Marie-Claude Gallard (Marieke)
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€1,050
Mémoire - Abstraction cosmique et terrestre
Marie-Claude Gallard (Marieke)
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€800
Traces du silence - abstraction cosmique et terrestre
Marie-Claude Gallard (Marieke)
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€875
Retrato en fondo negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 210 x 210 x 2 cm Painting - 82.7 x 82.7 x 0.8 inch
€7,237
Let us hold each other
Barbara Piller
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,000
Novecento
Richard Saint-Amans
Painting - 45 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,500 €1,125
Le petit chef d'orchestre III
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,050
Cuerpo escueto en fondo blanco cuadrado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€864
Cuerpo escueto cuadrado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€864
Just Freedom (Juste Liberté)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€595 €476
Composición en acua y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 83 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 32.7 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,784
Improvisación Barrio Vivo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 210 x 375 x 2 cm Painting - 82.7 x 147.6 x 0.8 inch
€12,941
Improvisación 5 Serie la Caja Negra
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 230 x 330 x 2 cm Painting - 90.6 x 129.9 x 0.8 inch
€12,454
Somewhere over the Rainbow
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Off to new Adventures
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Wild bird of paradise
Irena Tone
Painting - 29 x 39 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 15.4 x 0 inch
€320 €288
Azul tropical flower
Irena Tone
Painting - 39 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
€320 €288
Of Grey and Colors
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,800
Luxe aquatique (avec de la feuille d'or véritable 24 carats)
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.9 inch
€1,360
Boîte de Petri #11
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€600
La Vida Sin Ti
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€3,632
Le petit chef d'orchestre
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€850
Le petit chef d'orchestre II
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€850
A Little Rabbit
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500 €1,050
Silver birds of paradise
Irena Tone
Painting - 19 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€195 €176
The Bright Night Atmosphere
Kitikong Tilokwattanotai
Painting - 33 x 28 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 11 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
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
Prussian Blue Movement #4. From The Prussian Blue Series
Almo
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
€922
Prussian Blue Movement #3. From The Prussian Blue Series
Almo
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
€922
Prussian Blue Movement #2. From The Prussian Blue Series
Almo
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
€922
Ecos de la ciudad
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 200 x 340 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 133.9 x 0.8 inch
€12,261
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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.