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Old Venice cityscape n°1 - Italian painting
Michele Martini
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€375
LOVE’S DOSE : PILLARS OF PASSION IN COUTURE CAPSULES
Tomomi Mishima
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€6,700
Farmers in Maremma - Tuscany painting
Giacomo Vaccaro
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€275
Basket with roses - Italian old painting + frame
Aldo Luxardo
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€350
The Power of breaking fear
Suraj Kumar Kashi
Painting - 106.68 x 137.16 x 3 cm Painting - 42 x 54 x 1.2 inch
€4,350
Robert dans les îles grecques
Frédéric Castaldi
Painting - 100 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Icescape with figures on the ice...
Rob van Assen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,450
Die Fangschrecke
Wolfgang Häberle
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Run for your Life
Ida Bagus Putu Purwa
Painting - 140 x 200 x 6 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 2.4 inch
€6,000
KAWAII KANJI WHISPERS PURPLE
Ioam Yumako
Painting - 138 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 54.3 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€5,400
Sand barge at Noordwijkerhout
Leo van den Ende
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€3,000
Blue hair and my lady
Attasit Pokpong
Painting - 132 x 132 x 3.5 cm Painting - 52 x 52 x 1.4 inch
€21,000
Blue Plate Obsession
Margaret Horvat
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
€4,851
Jerusalem landscape
Adriana Naveh
Painting - 80 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€7,761
Early Stages of the game
Nicky Nodjoumi
Painting - 182.9 x 134.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 72 x 53 x 2 inch
€44,000
Plastic river
Frédéric Vangeebergen
Painting - 127 x 100 x 4.6 cm Painting - 50 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
€4,000
Champagne ?
Jean-Jacques Surian
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€11,000
Super Mario Velasques
Alexander Danaesi
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,850
Visioni speculari
Vittorio Menditto
Painting - 90 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
Landscapes with reeds, the spears
Julio Ramon Serrano Moreno
Painting - 45 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€2,800
241 - Un souvenir qui tangue
Jacques Resch
Painting - 26 x 38 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 15 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
Crépuscule de Loire
Marie-Pierre Autonne
Painting - 101 x 101 x 4 cm Painting - 39.8 x 39.8 x 1.6 inch
€3,800
Monarch And The Milkweed (Study)
Hannah Yata
Painting - 22.2 x 12.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 4.9 x 0 inch
€1,000
La fille au bord de l'eau
Olena Siniuhina
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€290
Violetta : frosty whispers of lavender dreams
Kaho Nakamura
Painting - 140 x 159 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 62.6 x 2 inch
€6,700
Femme nue devant la cheminée
Aloys Hugonnet
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,013
Les Âmes Blanches
Nadyn Kuntz
Painting - 130 x 81 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 0.6 inch
€7,000 €5,600
Jeune femme posant nue
Maurise Legendre
Painting - 73.5 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,965
Lena et le cygne
Andrey Smirnoff
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€910 €774
1983 Alchimie de vie Life Alchemy
Jutta SCRANNAGE
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,950
Lo rinascerò
Angelo De Francisco
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
La Femme au centre du monde
Christophe Stephan Durand
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Jeune Femme Au Bouquet
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Painting - 65 x 54 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 inch
€20,000
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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.
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.
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.
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.