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Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,078
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£843
The Worship of this Love
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,348
Capture the essence
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£759
The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,012
A girl who loves the sea II
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,348
Mozarts in Vienna
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£1,258
Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
£1,012
XXL Landscape at 11.08 AM
Kseniya Rai
Painting - 155 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 61 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,258
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
£1,168
Tribute to Cubism (Hommage au Cubisme)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
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In Time series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,348 £1,213
Le plongeon/2
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 89 x 116 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,246
Medianoche con Hojas Doradas
Chelsea Davine
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,100
Mediterranean Sea, Composition III
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 116 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
£2,426
Untitled
Noyem Khachatryan
Painting - 165 x 123 x 2 cm Painting - 65 x 48.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,438 £1,294
The Improvisation Trio
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£842
Dream Big In New York City
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,123 £686
Summer Etude (1)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 39 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£807
It Is Summer Warm Rain At Sunset
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 40 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
£899
Untitled
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,797 £1,617
Passaggi in laguna olio su tela
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£988
The origin of color
Elena Chulkova
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,797
The abstraction painting - Neural Networks. Insights
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£899
Still life with wine bottles
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£801
Abstract graffiti life
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,707
Perspectives Manhattan
Daniel Castan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,662
Spring in the garden of Eden - blossoms, spring in France, flowers garden
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,796
It's Getting Kind of Hectic
Emma Harrison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,797
Yard by the sea
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,687
Lab #1 Painting. From the Lab series
Alec Franco
Painting - 49.8 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.6 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
£632
Lumière du soir II
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,606
Le monde en équilibre
Isabelle Duffaud
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
£1,213
Portrait in Blue and Red
Ihar Barkhatkou
Painting - 105 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,797
As Far As You Can See
Eniafe Gbenga
Painting - 55.9 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 22 x 20 x 1 inch
£1,138
The effect of propaganda
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,528
Guardian of the Shadows
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,012
Logs - Middle Beach - AGAIN. Zoom out.
Chrissy Nickerson
Painting - 64 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 25.2 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,465
Boy in Wonderland
Samson Olatubosun
Painting - 74.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
£1,560
Summer, sea, beach, girl
Elena Lukina
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,303
Red Fish Symphony on Grey
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 60 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,438
Night in New York
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,687
Snow-covered village
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 55 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,687
Citizens in Colour
Julia Whitehead
Painting - 35 x 45 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,150
Le Passeur de Lumière
André Bielen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£2,876
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Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,078
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£843
The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,012
Mozarts in Vienna
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£1,258
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.