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Geo campi di grano
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,350
La Maison sur la Plage
Michaël Brack
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Peinture 10-2021-72
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€850
Balade sur l'ocean
Eric Munsch
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€890 €757
Portrait of Silence
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,318
Birch Forest Study III
Helen Brough
Painting - 30 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,275
Sunflowers valley - Tuscany painting landscape
Giuseppe Landi
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€625
Voyage of Hope
Gultakin Nasibova
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Sunflowers road - Tuscany painting landscape
Biagio Chiesi
Painting - 40 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€450
Les deux amies
Thérèse Boucraut
Painting - 100 x 118 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 46.5 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Je me souviens de Guz
Victorine Follana
Painting - 100 x 73 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.8 inch
€2,500
Serious danger
Mathieu Questel
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.18 x 38.19 x 1 inch
€4,500 €3,375
Folding Form III (Case Yellow)
Jeremy Annear
Painting - 108 x 88 x 0.1 cm Painting - 42.5 x 34.6 x 0 inch
€22,677
Rotterdam et moi 3
Marian Williams
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,950
Controluce, paesaggio di maggio
Mauro Tròlese
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€139
Campo di grano (paesaggio di maggio)
Mauro Tròlese
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€99
Repetition, Series of Ballerinas
Ramaz Chantladze
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Cherry blossom / Sakura Spring
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€7,000
A look at the definitions of space
Clari Netzer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,600
Portrait of Nobody
Keti Bubunauri
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Promised Sanctuary
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€270
Night street
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€480
A waterfall that I will never enter
Elena Chulkova
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Summer's Fiery Bouquet
Narek Qochunc
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
€173
Le Grand bleu - Blue III
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
€840
Le Grand bleu - Blue I
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
€840
Rue de l´Épée-de-Bois, Paris
Neal Turner
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€860
A Break in Reality
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Along the Back Roads
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
A Burst of Gold
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Heart over head
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Lake in the evening
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
€4,400
The Green Lake (Grüner See), Austria,
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Night lake in Ukraine
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.8 inch
€2,500
Green dark lake
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€4,700
Blue Bodensee, seascape, water, sky
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
The Promenade des Anglais
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€4,700
Coastline - Impressionist abstraction blue seascape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 70 x 99 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39 x 1.6 inch
€2,700
Celestial Symphony
Maria Matveyeva
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Business partners
Andrei Sitsko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,520
Still Life With Sunflowers
Tanya Grinevich
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Señoritas en el burdel
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 60 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
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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.