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Flowers in the Shore
Cao Fan
Painting - 77 x 57 x 3 cm Painting - 30.3 x 22.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,100 €4,335
Village in Armenia
Anahit Hakobyan
Painting - 81 x 101 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,150
Lake Light and Water Color
Cao Fan
Painting - 95.5 x 95.5 x 3 cm Painting - 37.6 x 37.6 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
Watching Flowers Across the Shore
Cao Fan
Painting - 95.5 x 95.5 x 3 cm Painting - 37.6 x 37.6 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
Building 1
Vakho Bugadze
Painting - 200 x 250 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 98.4 x 1.2 inch
€10,000 €8,500
Trio of Gummy Bears
John Schieffer
Painting - 182.9 x 182.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 72 x 72 x 1 inch
€34,022
Le Panier en Zinc
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,330
Le vieux tracteur
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,330
Le Femme aux yeux bleus - série portrait de femme
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Primordial Sea; Dance
Ad Van Riel
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€3,500
Series The perspective No.1
Luo Yi
Painting - 90 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€12,800 €10,880
Vieille femme au panier de pommes
Alberto Cecconi
Painting - 70.5 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€875
Vieille homme à la pipe
Alberto Cecconi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€875
Divine Vagina
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 120 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€14,600
Nature Dancing
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€8,400 €7,140
Slugs on the Ceiling
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€7,200
Lunar Eclipse
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€7,200
Green Fantasy
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€7,200
Summer Thunderstorm at Night
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€8,400
Sunset in Songzhuang
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€8,400 €7,140
Summer Thunderstorm in the Afternoon
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€8,400
Night in Songzhuang
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€10,600 €9,010
Sunrise in Songzhuang
Mauricio Paz Viola
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€10,600 €9,010
Dada - The test of the soul
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€6,000
Drawings for invisible hands #6
Sooyeon Hong
Painting - 78.7 x 54.6 cm Painting - 31 x 21.5 inch
€3,208
Cadmium rouge vertige - Vortex 16
Philippe Huart
Painting - 30 x 30 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Jeune femme à la lecture
Percival Pernet
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€833
Untitled 23 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 24.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,139
Untitled 22 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 24.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,139
Untitled 21 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 24.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,139
Untitled 20 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 24.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,139
Untitled 19 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 24.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,139
Untitled 18 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 24.1 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,139
Untitled 17 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 29.2 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,430
Untitled 16 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 29.2 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,430
Untitled 15 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 29.2 x 24.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.5 x 9.5 x 1 inch
€2,430
Dunepath to the sea (in exhibition)
Peter de Boer
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,820
The Shadows of White XV
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
€2,450
Voiliers sur le lac
André Julien Prina
Painting - 30 x 27 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,014
Papillons de Printemps
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€295 €148
Gondole dans la lagune de Venise
André Pettinerolli
Painting - 53.5 x 72.3 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.1 x 28.5 x 0.2 inch
€907
Abstraction 1969 Barcarès Musée des Sables
Moon Shin
Painting - 79 x 48 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31.1 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
€9,900
L'ILE D'YEU, BALADE SAUVAGE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,395
La Baule frisquet, on sort
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€895
Ciel dans la Rivière
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
The White Series XIV
Gosha Karpowicz
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€2,625
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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
€1,166 €991
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€972
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,200
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
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
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
€1,166
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.