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Grand canal de nuit à Venise
Christine Jacquel
Painting - 33 x 40.9 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,194
Follow The Light
Christine Frisbee
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
CHF 1,138
Femme d'esprit
Danielle Julien
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
CHF 1,545
Massavo the Makokean 2
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
CHF 1,897
Yo quiero... Yo quiero
Carmen Cañadas
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
CHF 3,167
Highland Hope II
Kalpana Soanes
Painting - 59.9 x 80 x 4.6 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
CHF 1,118
Retour du printemps
Yvan Philmer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
CHF 2,801
Still Life With Monkey, Fruits and Flowers
Alexey Golovin
Painting - 135 x 105 x 4 cm Painting - 53.1 x 41.3 x 1.6 inch
CHF 19,224
Saint-Rémy de Provence
André Hambourg
Painting - 28 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 5,973
The Sacred Journey
Béa Palatinus
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,236
Above the canvas
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 119.9 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 7,200
Pitcher Crystal
Antonio Scordia
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.3 inch
CHF 1,236
Geometric Composition
Aldo Moriconi
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
CHF 1,545
Eironciño dos cabaleiros
Paco Ascón Callejo
Painting - 74 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,574
In a perfect world (7)
Steven Seinberg
Painting - 152.4 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 inch
CHF 16,476
Le corps souple de la belle
Herve Malcom Thomas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,265
Optical composition
Carlo Montesi
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
CHF 1,854
Landscape
Tatiana Polihronova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,339
Nocturnal Journey
Nizaac Vallejo
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
CHF 8,238
La porte est toujours ouverte - série Les Poupées
Pierre Jarraud
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,931
La Ragione della Contesa
Mirtilla Durante
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,236
Le salon fleuri
Laurelle Bessé
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,030
Reclusion
Pierre-Marie Ziegler
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,265
Melody inside, Desert Mirage Abstract
Andrey Kopchak
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,030
Longboard I - scène de vie en bord de mer
Hélène Dupérier
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 927
La noche oscura del alma II
Paco Muñoz Santana
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.3 inch
CHF 1,648
Wedding (Authenticated Clementine Hunter Framed Black Folk Art Painting)
Clementine Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1 inch
CHF 13,644
Les Ménines - Variations I
Pierre François
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,471
Racines miraculeuses haïtiennes
Christophe Mert
Painting - 91 x 78 cm Painting - 35.8 x 30.7 inch
CHF 4,119
Instant de paix - série arbres et rivières
Chantal Szymoniak
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
CHF 844
Autoportrait 1964 Selfportrait, L'idole The idol
Esther Hess
Painting - 56 x 46 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 0.2 inch
CHF 1,802
Requiem for Missing Ships
Dimitar Cholakov
Painting - 110 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,390
Challenging Conversation
Abdulateef Salaudeen
Painting - 76.2 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 25 x 1 inch
CHF 1,375
Autumn’s Arrival
Johanne Brouillette
Painting - 91 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,545
Agua en Granada
María Elena Olmo, del
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,018
Horizonte Blanco Perla
Jose Ramón Campomanes
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,493
The jewel of the river
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
CHF 2,531
Nature morte au navets et choux
Luigi Venturi
Painting - 34 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
CHF 750
Jeune fille à la plage
Valérie-Anne Bertin
Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
CHF 463
Farewell to Fremantle
Margarita Voynova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,545
Village 28
Daozhou Huang
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 515 CHF 463
Fest symphony
Dimitar Mitov - Komshin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,648
Untitled
Yassine (Yaze) Mekhnache
Painting - 58 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 22.8 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,339
Agatha
Osimeh Godstand Ederibhalo
Painting - 81.3 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 inch
CHF 1,669
Playas en el mar de Seto
Isabel Momparler
Painting - 89 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
CHF 2,060
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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.