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The Landscape Painter
Peter Carella
Painting - 50.8 x 76.2 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.5 inch
$2,000
Just a Nice Day III
Jordan Pankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,696
L'uppercut de l'amour
Bertrand Thomassin
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
L'éternelle fragilité
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,470
Bleu + vert = jaune
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 173 x 173 x 2 cm Painting - 68.1 x 68.1 x 0.8 inch
$750,000
Émergence lumineuse
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 47 x 36 x 0.6 cm Painting - 18.5 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
$735
Rain - green blue turquoise large abstraction
Anna Dar
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
I Feel 'T Upon My Bones
Cigdem Onat
Painting - 92 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 35 x 1 inch
$3,268
Quartier Libre
Chloé Kelly Miller
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,940
Bush Plum Dreaming - EDA-EM3076/23
Elizabeth Mbitjana
Painting - 79 x 122 x 0.001 cm Painting - 31.1 x 48 x 0 inch
$1,730
Labour of Love - Meaning of a Song
Shumaiya Khan
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$5,297
Dancing together in Gold
Bennie Wielens
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,183
The rural life in Haiti
Makenol Profil
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,355
Victor Asuaje, Seria...
Victor Asuaje
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$396
While The World Decay (Fluro)
Snik
Painting - 48.7 x 102.7 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.2 x 40.4 x 0.1 inch
$4,524
Afrodite Bella tra le belle
Alessandro La Motta
Painting - 120 x 81 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,244
Collines brésiliennes
Robson Barros
Painting - 80 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,357
Wo wenig mehr ist, #745
A.R. Stern
Painting - 80 x 80 x 7.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 3 inch
$2,092
Metropolitan Luz 84
Joan Llaverias
Painting - 80 x 170 x 0.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 66.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,696
N°156 - Sans-Titre
Massoud Monahavandi
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,262
Season colors__Summer Autumn 2018
Soo Youn Kim
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,459
'Monochrome Love' Series 1, Square (unframed)
Kirsten Jackson
Painting - 123 x 123 x 7 cm Painting - 48.4 x 48.4 x 2.8 inch
$2,601
Faded glory
Jacob Kwesi Bennett
Painting - 51.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$921
Giraffe in turquoise, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,800
Cromofusion
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,357
Regard d'argent - série portrait de femme
Namy
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,951
The Electromagnetic Wave
Carol Graslan
Painting - 45.5 x 31 x 3.5 cm Painting - 17.9 x 12.2 x 1.4 inch
$1,059
Coque de bateau - Cargo Tamago
Marie-Annick Priou
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,074
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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.