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Field of colorful flowers - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€450
Path between peach trees - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€450
The wine valley - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€450
Hill wih wildflowers - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€300
The vineyard road - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€325
Maregiata
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 90 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,500 €1,200
Pomegranate Perfection
Stepan Ohanyan
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€194
9. Saint Gilles de Croix de Vie’s magical dunepath
Peter de Boer
Painting - 150 x 190 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 74.8 x 0.8 inch
€5,600
Bright color abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€6,700
Clair de lune
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 30 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€580
From the series "Infinite Flight" pink, Barbie, white, colorful large abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 1.6 inch
€5,500
From the series Infinite Flight
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€7,000
From the series "Infinite Flight"
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€7,000
Blue seascape, water from the series Infinite Flight
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 200 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€17,000
Blue Sky Galaxy - dripping, dots abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€7,000
Fontaine de Jouvence
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 81 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,910
La hija vestida de novia
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,400
La Maison sur la Plage
Michaël Brack
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Porthole Series #37
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 4 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.6 inch
€305
Blurring boundaries
Anna Belyaevskaya
Painting - 71 x 51 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 20.1 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
To bridge the differences
Anna Belyaevskaya
Painting - 61 x 49.5 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,850
The Race Against Wind and Time No. 2
Katherine Filice
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.75 inch
€2,700
Lost In The Woods No 2
Katherine Filice
Painting - 76.2 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 38 x 1 inch
€3,200
Listen I Have a Story To Tell You
Katherine Filice
Painting - 63.5 x 114.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 25 x 45 x 1.5 inch
€3,000
In A Blue Moon
Katherine Filice
Painting - 101.6 x 73.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 29 x 1.5 inch
€4,300
Dancing Under The Blue Moon
Katherine Filice
Painting - 68.6 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27 x 28 x 1.5 inch
€2,100
Symphony in Color
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,910
Porthole Series #26
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 92 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
The Edge of Silence
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
€1,125
Emotional Eruption
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 45 x 35 x 0.2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
€349
Booknote 9. From The Beaches series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 24 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.45 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,231
L'homme assis
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 60.6 x 50.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.9 x 19.9 x 0.2 inch
€1,965
Les pieds dans le sable
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Les cabines de plage
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Eclipse (1) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (13)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€3,360
Metaphysical weight (3) (After pina bausch) Forbidden collage (14)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€2,880
Ciel zebré rose et bleu
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
A la recherche des valeurs perdues
Ahmed Zelfani
Painting - 205 x 69 x 2.5 cm Painting - 80.7 x 27.2 x 1 inch
€5,400
Public library interior
Schagen Vita
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Room with a chair and artwork
Schagen Vita
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€200
Minecraft - Child Labor Edition
Arlo Sinclair
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,695
Lavender field in PIsa countryside panoramic version - Tuscany painting
Biagio Chiesi
Painting - 40 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€515
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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.