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Portrait #2. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,151
Tranquility
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,679
Walk in the sky - blue pink geometry abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
My Skin Colour... Gift or Curse?
Iyiola Odunayo
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
€1,583
A day at the beach
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.8 inch
€9,211
Machine - Mesnager X Nora
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 290 x 30 x 7 cm Painting - 114.2 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
€1,400
My Kid Just Ruined My Basquiat (graf) on canvas
Ziegler T
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€900
Les pierres dressées
Françoise Danel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
Sa Cha Wil pick a stick
Charlie Easton
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
€1,765
Souvenir de l'eau
Philippe Charpentier
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€1,800 €1,620
Silence, on tourne
Sabine Louriac
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
Shoreditch 1&2
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 82 x 43 x 4 cm Painting - 32.3 x 16.9 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
City of Illusion
Nicole Adolph Von Madebynd
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
€800
Do you see the same thing than me?
Antoine Josse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€2,600
J + Odalisque Bleue
Gaëtan de Séguin
Painting - 61 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
The girl with golden hair
Barbara Kroll
Painting - 99.1 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€1,631
Follow the Dream & Follow the Wind
Lee Yu Min
Painting - 60 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,400
The last days of Zion
Ziad Dib Jreige
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€600 €540
Sin título - Untitled
Ana Steinnekker
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€650
Self-Worth 2
Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
€3,118
Entre mer et terre
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Contrebasdiste Tentaculaire
Delphine Portier
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Hiplet Ballerina
Sandi Goodwin
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
€2,000
Enchanting Elegance
Samson Adetunji
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
€2,159
Stay In Your Magic
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Untitled II
Aleksandar Bezinovic
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€6,500
Epicycle - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,125 €1,913
La Féerie des Eaux
Nicole Azoulay
Painting - 90 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 150 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
€1,200
The playful power of water
Tetiana Ocheredko
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,727
Textil urbano. De la serie Geschichte
Verónica Sanes
Painting - 65 x 105 cm Painting - 25.6 x 41.3 inch
€800
Blossoming Romance
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,900
Spring in the garden of Eden - blossoms, spring in France, flowers garden
Ulyana Korol
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,999
Masculine Elegance (Beauty Within Us)
Fasalejo Tobiloba
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
€1,295
Die Jagd - La chasse
Hans Mendler
Painting - 110 x 110 x 4.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.8 inch
€3,000 €2,850
Estival
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€680
Orange-Purple and Blue Surface
Genny Puccini
Painting - 120 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,600
A couple
Michal Bajsarowicz
Painting - 110 x 110 x 4.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.8 inch
€2,000 €1,680
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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.