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View of the Forum Romanum
Luigi Tarra
Painting - 37.2 x 37.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.8 x 0.1 inch
$848
Balade des cygnes
Olga Steiner
Painting - 83.5 x 113.5 x 2 cm Painting - 32.9 x 44.7 x 0.8 inch
$858
Paysage aux cyprès
Laure Stella Bruni
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,030
Départ pour la pêche, chapeau, flèches et pagaie
A. A. Alaned
Painting - 30.5 x 91.5 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$744
Vue sur le Salève et l'Arve, campagne genevoise
R. Liegaut
Painting - 38 x 53 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch
$583
Soul-processed landscape work N1
Elisabetta Pienti
Painting - 30 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$6,600
Punk Rock Pink
María José Concha
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,658
Clair de lune/ Totem
Marie Javouhey
Painting - 110 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$5,881
Female Portrait
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 202 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 79.5 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$13,571
Still Life with Apples
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 29 x 38 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$5,654
RIU MIN JA Bouddhas de RIU MIN JA 1979
Min Ja Ryu
Painting - 144 x 112 x 0.4 cm Painting - 56.7 x 44.1 x 0.2 inch
$10,743
1978 Porte pour l'éternité Eternity Door
Ha IN-DOO
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$11,252
Ref. 874 - Landscape
Pooneh Jafarinejad
Painting - 100 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 2 inch
$3,958
A Lemon on the Windowsill
Meir Pichhadze
Painting - 45.5 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 17.9 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$13,500
Traces et mémoire 1
Théodora Vourvouri
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
While I Wait
Joseph Christian Ekom-Obong
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,800
El Molino Barcelona
Ramón Navarra
Painting - 65 x 55 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,262
A Field in Tiberias
Tina Periquet
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,809
Visible Sound_Marionette
Sori Choi
Painting - 122 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$45,236
Gold Bouddha 1958 Le Bouddha d'or
J. Wyrszalew
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$10,743
Fabuleux Cirque Bleu
Danielle Balagé
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,958
The sound of the sea
Eugene Poliarush
Painting - 60.96 x 91.44 x 2.54 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,945
Its Kitsch, Bitch!
Jamie Vincent
Painting - 119 x 149 x 1 cm Painting - 46.9 x 58.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,979
Matter of Light 14-S4848 (red magenta)
Ruth Pastine
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 3 inch
$36,000
Cornflower Fragments
Frederic Paul
Painting - 140 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,372
Bientôt les premières neiges mangeront les couleurs; le paysage en profitait pour parader et revêtir son costume de fête, la joie était partout.
François Pagé
Painting - 20 x 20 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$226
View from the room
Cornelia Quehenberger
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,753
Hommage BANKSY "Don't Loose Your Life Live It"
Didier Lannoy
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,250
La Medicina - El Patior
Angelica Briones
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.81 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$12,609
Crépuscule sur le pont
Jérôme Guillet
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$1,448
She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities
Grady Tomlinson Zeeman
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.1 inch
$2,488
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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.