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Bakken (Parc d'attractions près de Copenhague)
Wilhelm Wils
Painting - 70 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Paysage d'un village enneigé
Albert Joseph Januarius Di Décarli
Painting - 37.5 x 45 x 1 cm Painting - 14.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€2,097
Into the valley
Ingegerd K Westin
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,400
La Thièle, Yverdon
Gabriel Edouard Haberjahn
Painting - 38 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
€1,286
Les granges de Thônex
Henri Vincent Gillard
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,013
Le Mont-Blanc depuis Sallanches
Louis Camille Gianoli
Painting - 24 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€2,466
Paysage de campagne genevoise, vue sur le Môle
Christian Zwahlen
Painting - 37 x 46 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.6 x 18.1 x 0.2 inch
€1,581
Paysage d'automne et vue sur le lac
René Martin
Painting - 51 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,254
Bouquet de rose
Stéphanie Caroline Guerzoni
Painting - 46 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€1,054
Portail à la campagne
Charles Monnier
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,359
Livorno Retoni Sull'Arnaccio
Angiolo Volpe
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,991
Natale in Sicilia
Giulio D'Angelo
Painting - 32.5 x 29.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.8 x 11.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,612
Place de Naples animée
Oscar Ricciardi
Painting - 38 x 22.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
€843
Fête de village avec ramasseur de broussailles
Alexandre Marcette
Painting - 74 x 39.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 15.6 x 0.8 inch
€706
Nature morte aux livres et à la pipe
S. Pagani
Painting - 38 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€727
FONTANA Hommage Tribute
Yoo HA SONG
Painting - 132 x 98 x 1 cm Painting - 52 x 38.6 x 0.4 inch
€3,900
Mère et enfant
Pierre Ernest Kohl
Painting - 38.5 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 15.2 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,897
Horizon l'étoile (Douce volupté songe du sage)
Alexis Alary
Painting - 146 x 226 x 1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 89 x 0.4 inch
€4,600
Tartanes, calme du soir
Elie Bernadac
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.2 inch
€1,770
La Fontaine, Cheseaux
Henri Châtillon
Painting - 50 x 61 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.2 inch
€2,213
Râteaux de pêche sur une côte méditerranéenne
Arnaldo De Lisio
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,907
Bouquet de fleurs
Jean-Louis Berger
Painting - 55 x 33.5 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 13.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,033
Casa al sole, Capri
Felice Giordano
Painting - 40.5 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 15.9 x 12 x 0.8 inch
€1,549
Sentier Corse et olivier
Tony Gardella
Painting - 55 x 46.5 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,001
#58 Wall Street Station
Chris Carolina
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Landscape LVIII
Bartosz Michal Hoppe Sadowski
Painting - 150 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€3,295 €2,735
Bord de rivière avec des pêcheurs
Alberto Vianelli
Painting - 16 x 21.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 6.3 x 8.5 x 0.2 inch
€685
Soleil levant 1979 Rising Sun. Soleil levant sur la montagne, Rising sun on mountains
Kim YOUNG JOO
Painting - 76 x 76 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
€3,950
Les bâches bleues
Célestin Messaggio
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€3,600
Homme et femme, jeux
Armen Gasparian
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,600
Les petits oiseaux
Valérie Auriel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,910
1866058
Alain Patrick Korenberg
Painting - 84 x 126 x 0.2 cm Painting - 33.1 x 49.6 x 0.1 inch
€3,200
Paysage au vieux pont
Marcelle Ducret
Painting - 36 x 44.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.2 x 17.5 x 0.2 inch
€527
Le Verger, Hermance
John Henri DELUC
Painting - 49.5 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.5 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,054
Composition 1955
Felice Casorati
Painting - 90 x 55 x 0.4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 21.7 x 0.2 inch
€78,000
En gare de Satigny, Genève
Philippe Zysset
Painting - 73 x 91.7 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,296
La Chute des Géants
Sophie Manaches
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€750
Le dernier combat de Bosc
Christian Zeimert
Painting - 75 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€4,500
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
Ruby Bat Arnon
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€10,000
Carpets from Provence
Alexandr Reznichenko
Painting - 180 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
€9,800
PINK TUBES : COTTON CANDY AND EPHEMERAL LOLITA SPECTRUM
Saori Nakamishi
Painting - 180 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€7,000
Etude from the series 191
Anastasiia Kolibaba
Painting - 27 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
€480
Thanos snaps and Mona disappears
Sanuj Birla
Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 1 inch
€3,358
A la bonne vôtre VI
Christophe Blanc
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
L'atelier de l'artiste
Chittrovanu Mazumdar
Painting - 102 x 75 x 6 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.5 x 2.4 inch
€3,000
Impression of Reality
Egle Karpaviciute
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€4,900
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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.
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.
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.
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.