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Paysage avec un Pont
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,200 €1,020
Autumn Rose
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,900 €1,615
Paysage avec un Banc
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,000 €1,700
Paysage avec Maison Jaune
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,500 €1,275
La Neige d'Hier
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€900 €765
Sapins De Noel
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,900 €1,615
Cloudy... No precipitation
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 25 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 9.8 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,400 €1,190
Winter Dream
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 45 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 17.7 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,600 €1,360
Maison Pour Le Foin
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,700 €1,445
Paysage Avec Une Maison Pour L'étourneau
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,400 €1,190
Nouveau Printemps
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,400 €1,190
The Morning Sun
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,100 €935
En Été, Le Ruisseau
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,400 €1,190
Maison et Lilas
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 45 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,100 €935
Fleurs par la Route
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€900 €765
Au Début du Printemps
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,300 €1,105
Nature morte - série Abstraction
Anne Scandella
Painting - 62 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€504
Portrait
Nicolas Fropo de Habart
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Nuova Primavera
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 80 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,200
Untitled VIII
Alejandra Quintanilla
Painting - 67 x 67 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26.37 x 26.37 x 0.1 inch
€1,161
Untitled VII
Alejandra Quintanilla
Painting - 62 x 62 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24.4 x 24.4 x 0.1 inch
€967
Confused people series 09
Renjie Gao
Painting - 53 x 75.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 29.7 x 1.2 inch
€967
Fleurs et pommes
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,000
Tempête bleue - série mer et plage
Elfrid Auvray
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,380
Can you sense the atmosphere II
Heini Turunen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
SKZ Student Painting Storage Box Number 964
Dan Levenson
Painting - 50 x 25 x 36 cm Painting - 19.7 x 9.8 x 14.2 inch
€24,663
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
€1,500
Even if it doesn’t look like it
Manuela Karin Knaut
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€4,859
Here Is Where We Meet (for John Berger)
Yari Ostovany
Painting - 76 x 102 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 inch
€4,130
Fragments of poetry and silence no. 39
Yari Ostovany
Painting - 76 x 102 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 inch
€4,130
Paysage du Tarn Lavaur
Agnès Cellérier
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€732
Paris Azur 2 (series of 3)
Linda McCluskey
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Verdure au port - Canto, Cannes
Claude Schürr
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€8,500
Red Roof Triptych
Linda McCluskey
Painting - 30 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
€700
Vol de nuit 2
László Mester de Parajd
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€960
Impression d'Afrique 2
László Mester de Parajd
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€960
Impression d'Afrique
László Mester de Parajd
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€960
Code champêtre
László Mester de Parajd
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
Code bitume
László Mester de Parajd
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
ASUKA1 : ETHEREAL ALLURE ON A WHISPERING GREEN CANVAS
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 130 x 97 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 2 inch
€5,000
Le sacre du printemps
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 190 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,350
Elle et son prince charmant
Anne-Marie Vesco
Painting - 27 x 22 x 4.05 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
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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
€1,161 €987
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€967
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
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
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
€1,161
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.