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Regard en chien
Aurélie Quentin
Painting - 130 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$6,597
My Name Is Brigitte
Jules Holland
Painting - 100 x 75 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.9 inch
$5,049
My Name Is Grace
Jules Holland
Painting - 100 x 75 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.9 inch
$5,049
My Name Is Marylin
Jules Holland
Painting - 100 x 75 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.9 inch
$5,049
What awaits us
Aasiri Wickremage
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
Paysage d'Occitanie II
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,077
Début d'automne à Fontainebleau
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
Petit-déjeuner aux clémentines
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 73 x 116 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 inch
$22,775
Take me into another dimension I II
Maria Esmar
Painting - 220 x 280 x 0.2 cm Painting - 86.6 x 110.2 x 0.1 inch
$14,024
Take me into another dimension II
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 220 x 0.2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 86.6 x 0.1 inch
$7,629
Take me into another dimension I
Maria Esmar
Painting - 140 x 220 x 0.2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 86.6 x 0.1 inch
$7,629
In the green of summer
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,800
Night light
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,000
Alone with silence
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,400
Summer colors
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,400
Mountain lake
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,000
Look of the night
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,200
Couple at sea
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,500
Siesta
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,500
Family forever
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,000
In the rays of the winter sun
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 100 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,500
Evening mood
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 110 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,700
Evening Bellagio
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,800
Station Worker’s Loop
Polina Izvekova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,871
Le bouddha de la montagne
Catherine Clare
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$898
Mes petits bonheurs B
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,731
Eternal Blossoms Triptych
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 137.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 54 x 0.75 inch
$18,000
Outdoor meeting
Matthew Keith Davies
Painting - 60 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,636
Ancient Sunflowers
Avi Ben Simhon
Painting - 70 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$4,800
Le mol oreiller du doute
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,853
Landscape with brooms
Andrea Borella
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$522
Vue en tondo, vue des dunes
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$438
Etude pour cheval à la verticale
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$438
Etude pour cheval horizontale
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$438
Marine jaune et rose 2
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 48 x 44 x 1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 17.3 x 0.4 inch
$505
Marine jaune et rose 1
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 42 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$505
N° 1244 Jéricho, Jéricho !
R. Cavalié
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$583
Yellow Sky landscape
Laura Spring
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$180
Future., Painting, Oil on Canvas, canvas art, stretched
Karina Antonczak
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,260
Stop wars, d'après Banksy
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,346
Les Pieds dans les nuages
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 89 x 116 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 inch
$26,140
Vague Nocturne
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,356
Une touche de modernité
Eric Munsch
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,178
Deep blu : azure reflections, Tokyo’s depths in manga palette
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 220 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 86.6 x 63 x 2 inch
$9,873
Purple arlequin : Harajuku rhapsody, the enigmatic dance of colors
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 180 x 137 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 53.9 x 2 inch
$6,731
Tatoo : ink and skin
Jimmy Yoshimura
Painting - 200 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 2 inch
$7,853
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,346
Minimal Forms 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$650
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.