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Caresses III
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$509
Soyez bien sages
Florence Dussuyer
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$10,065
Loneliness is not an act
Jacques Tange
Painting - 30 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$995
Prayer for nature
Xiaoyang Galas
Painting - 39.9 x 59.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$2,340
Cascading Greens
Suzanne Vaughan
Painting - 101.6 x 137.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 54 x 0.1 inch
$2,400
Motorcyclist Aka Cruising
Jose Gomez Navarro
Painting - 51 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,776
La Chute d'Icare
Eve Saint Jean
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$3,650
Southern California Wall Map
Jeremy Dickinson
Painting - 30.5 x 40.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 15.9 x 1 inch
$4,400
Le retour des cigales
Sigrid M.
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Le Temps Passe, Tu te Questionnes
Clement Garnung
Painting - 110 x 140 x 5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.1 x 2 inch
$3,393
Enigmatic Landscape
Andrée De Frémont
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,220
Portrait of a Sojourner
Charles Osaro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,400
Le bouquet de Chrystèle
Sandra Paris
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$460
Emotion Tissée Méditation
Ibrahim Ballo
Painting - 118 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,488
La source de l'ermite
Dominique Meunier
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$803
Hommage to Lichtenstein
Craig Alan
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.6 inch
$18,660
Wall street monsters and other tales
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 53 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
$961
Un autre regard
Béatrice Migliore
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Square and no limit
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,541
Pink Pop Panther What Else
Art'Mony
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,809
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,280
Un jour ailleurs
Catherine Tapon
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$3,381
Subterranean Rhapsody in Red and Green
David Tycho
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$8,256
Sea and moon
Josep Miquel Paufila
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,696
Silence - série Abstraction
Jacques Ayel
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,493
Moi je dis qu'un bon footballeur, c'est un footballeur qui a un cerveau et des mains (de génie) à la place des pieds !...
Jack Hironimus
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Cargo Traffic City Landscape
Vlado Vesselinov
Painting - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,149
Together, together.
Myeonghyeon An
Painting - 40.9 x 27.3 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 10.7 x 0.8 inch
$260
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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.