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Orange-Purple and Blue Surface
Genny Puccini
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,789
Afternoon boat trip
Trayko Popov
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
NY by night Manhattan
Nelson Fabiano
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,795
Octagonal Composition
Giuseppe Zumbolo
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$894
Amor y montaña desde Cuba
José Luis Alonso Samper
Painting - 60 x 90 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$3,354
Red Rose of the Revolution
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$559
The rhapsody of a summer dream
Alla Grande
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,683
Trinité Green kub - Portrait Pop art cubisme
Nathalie Paccalet dite Nathy
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$358
Collection Bleu d'été - "Fifty shades of blue"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 130 x 89 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$2,124 $1,678
Taylor Swift's Violin (Taylor Swift au Violon)
Françoise Leblanc
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$894
Fleurs bicolores
Gaëlle Kondrat
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$268 $241
Relaxing countryside - Tuscany landscape painting
Raimondo Pacini
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$263
Purple Lilac and Blue Diptych
Paulo Gnecco
Painting - 95 x 190 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 74.8 x 0.8 inch
$5,590
Jeune fille à la boucle
Changzheng Zhu
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$872
Untitled II
Aleksandar Bezinovic
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,267
Powder Blue Morning - abstract textured floral art
Anastassia Skopp
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$906
The Gaze III (Purple)
Godspower Odogwu
Painting - 91 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$1,677
Ballerina no. 5, Series XXIII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$727
Let Go Let Live #2
Niki Stearman
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,800
Arbre de vie red sky
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$15,652
Held by the great mother earth
Catherine Berube
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 3 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.2 inch
$1,968
Grand éclat argent bleu violet
Jonathan Pradillon
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$391
Marcher avec le chien
Rivera Bagur
Painting - 23 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,954
Ulimi wako mkuwba una faa kuenda kuenye ma shindano
George Lilanga
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$883
Orphée aux enfers
Victoria Picini
Painting - 65 x 65 x 3.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.4 inch
$559
Ghosts of Gauguin
Jeff Nachtigall
Painting - 122 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,556 $4,101
City of Illusion
Nicole Adolph Von Madebynd
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,062
Introspection 6
Benedicte Caillat
Painting - 34 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,342
Paysages abstraits 6
Qiong qiong Shao
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,006
Une sieste au Sahara
Conie Senac
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$3,220
Passerelle d'un monde à l'autre
Charlotte Pivard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
The last days of Zion
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$625 $563
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Acrylic Painting for Sale
Acrylic painting is a pictorial technique which is widely popular in today's art world. It uses a synthetic paint and its paste is made of pigments which are similar to those found in oil painting. It is emulsified with water and mixed with resin which binds them together.
Although the current success of acrylic paint is undeniable, its invention is nonetheless relatively recent in the history of painting. It was first developed in the 1930s in the United States. The advantages of this new technique (durability, solidity, quick to dry) were initially put to use in the industrial, construction and automobile sectors. In 1949, the printers Leonor Colour and Sam Golden decided to commercialise the invention and target artists thanks to the paint brand Magma.
At the same time, chemists at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico were also developing its texture, working alongside expert muralists who used it to create the mural and fresco paintings on the Mexico University's façade.
The material was embraced by the art world with important representatives of abstract expressionism, including Kooning, Rothko and Morris Louis using it in their work. But it was in 1963 that acrylic paint truly conquered the art world under the commercial brand name Liquitex, thanks to the innovations of Henry Levinson who made the paint dilutable with water and not just turpentine spirit.
Thanks to this, the paint became easier to work with, and more importantly, more accessible. It quickly became the favourite medium of Pop Art legends such as the painters Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Previously ignored in favor of oil painting which continued to be a symbol of the fine arts par excellence, acrylic painting benefited from the influence of these big names. Mindsets gradually changed and acrylic paint continued to seduce an ever growing audience of creators.
Originally an exclusively American privilege, the paint was exported to Europe around 1965. This was mainly thanks to the Belgian painter Pierre Alechinsky who played a role in making it popular among the Western European Surrealist circles after he returned from New York. Joan Miró and Max Ernst also demonstrated a preference for the medium, which had in the meantime become a legitimate alternative to oil painting.
The two canvas painting techniques conflict with each other in several ways. Many see acrylic paint as a material which corresponds better to the fast-paced modernity of our times. Whilst oil painting requires a tremendous amount of patience and and can crack when drying, acrylic paint dries quickly, does not need varnishing, is highly waterproof and most importantly, can be conserved more easily.
Acrylic resin can also be adapted to all kinds of supports, whether it be glass or fabric, and its texture allows the artist to play intricately with the thickness and reliefs without having to worry about the chromatic purity of the palette. The works of the contemporary painters John Kokkinos, Julien Colombier and Maude Ovize are all examples of the use of the medium in artworks today.
Acrylic paint has a wide range of usages. It can be used on surfaces such as wood, canvas, paper, ceramics and metal. It is used for both fine and decorative arts.
To create an acrylic painting, you will need a surface to paint on, some acrylic paint, and a tool to apply the paint to the surface with, such as a brush or sponge. You can plan the composition of the work beforehand, or apply the paint directly to the canvas in order to achieve the desired result.
Certain types of acrylic paints can contain toxins within their ingredients, similarly to oil paints. Acrylic paint dries quickly so it can be hard to go back and alter an acrylic painting. We also do not know how long acrylic paints last for, as they have only been around for abotu 50 years.