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Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth
Painting - 64 x 53 x 3 cm Painting - 25.2 x 20.9 x 1.2 inch
€2,080
The Centre Cannot Hold
Syndi Kahn
Painting - 90 x 81 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.9 x 1.4 inch
€3,962
Unda III
Vincent Abadie Hafez a.k.a Zepha
Painting - 122 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,050
Complotisme - série Chaos chromatique de l'Univers
Gérard Beaugrard dit GéQi
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,880
Schnappschuss 1706
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,200 €1,020
La Frontière GUERRE WAR The border
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
€19,500
Les gardiens de Khéops
Raymond Poulet
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€11,000
La sagesse dans les branches
Amor de Agua
Painting - 120 x 108 cm Painting - 47.2 x 42.5 inch
€1,100
Cheerful Morning
Jia Yuan Hua
Painting - 30 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,600 €2,210
Sarve Abarghoo série n°1
Ibrahim Ganjian
Painting - 180 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
€4,000
Papillons gold
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€10,000
Silent Scream
Mihai Alexandru Haita
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,930
N.Y. y el rio Hudson
Alejandro Quincoces
Painting - 121 x 175 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 68.9 x 1.2 inch
€17,000
Under the Bridge
Karin Anita Morris
Painting - 76.5 x 51 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30.1 x 20.1 x 1.5 inch
€2,250
Dans la Lumière - Série New York
Marianne Dencausse
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,920
A Girl With a Knitted Cap
Miyuki Takanashi
Painting - 72.7 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 28.6 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,400 €2,890
Actitudes comunicantes
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Control Attempt #21. Jealousy
Dasha Buben
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.7 inch
€1,000 €850
Dispersed Dense Lines
Ya-Ping Dong
Painting - 50 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
Le vent du large, voilier
Corinne Vilcaz
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,750
Distorted Landscape 2
Silvia Popova
Painting - 96 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,410
Hidden Deer
Seung Hwan Kim
Painting - 163.3 x 130.3 x 2.8 cm Painting - 64.3 x 51.3 x 1.1 inch
€7,550
Plateforme Environnementale
Serge Salis
Painting - 29.5 x 39.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 15.6 x 0.2 inch
€650
Global Warming - People of the Jungle
Svetli Evgeniev
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€590
Street art le lundi au soleil-3
SmaK-titi
Painting - 120 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Landscape in desintegration
Bibiana Ulanosky
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,930
Majestic beach Lov in Blue P2017 1033
Aldema Design & Art
Painting - 200 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€4,800
Danseuse au Lido
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Painting - 73.7 x 59.7 cm Painting - 29 x 23.5 inch
€162,485
Puy de Dôme sous la neige
Françoise Lavenu
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
Blooming Water Lilies
Diana Malivani
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€13,500
Permanent training
Mihran Manukyan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,016
Sans titre
Marie-France de la Cochetière (Titus)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,320
Resonance of Exile
Wedad Alnasser
Painting - 70 x 49 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.3 x 1.2 inch
€600 €510
Ulmus - Abstraction
Jean-Louis Bellon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,625
Magic womb at Nenkovo inside
Elena Georgieva
Painting - 130 x 96 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 37.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,950
Bremerhaven_02
Bernhard Lang
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,190 €1,643
Listening to Beethoven while ironing
Petra Schott
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,883
Enterrado bajo las raíces del árbol sagrado
María José Vela
Painting - 83 x 83 x 2 cm Painting - 32.7 x 32.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
MIYUKI 5 : MISTY PURPLE WHISPERS AND KAWAII TEMPTATION
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
€2,100
Départ de la Calanque
Jean-Marc Guillaume
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,800
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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.