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Compra en el mercadillo
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 54 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,346
In Her Prime
Ogunleke Festus Abiodun
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,550
Dîner sur Saint Sylvestre
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 130 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,590
Eternal (L'Eternel)
Alain Rigollier
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$550 $275
La Fille au Coq ou Belarus
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,777
Variations colorées
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,963
Sao Paulo Ibirapuera Park Vista
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,927
Le Passeur de Lumière
André Bielen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,590
Autumn melody
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,400 $3,520
Melody of awakening
Vik Schroeder
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
Autumn Whispers in the Garden
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
Cup of coffee and tangerine
Irina Trushkova
Painting - 25 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Botanical ornate. A quadriptych of Mini oil paintings
Momalyu Liubov Kriuchkova
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$920
II (two) Imperfect Imperfections
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,000
La muerte, el amor y el arte II
Moksananda
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,481
Nightfall Romance
Alexander Grinshpun
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,200
In the time of dreaming
Francesca Miotto
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,346 $1,144
Pacific Sanicle (Full Bloom)
Andrea Simmonds
Painting - 122 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,132
Baroctic
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 85 x 210 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 82.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,683 $1,515
The Texture of Fall
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$600
Les comédiens dans la forêt
Charles Lapicque
Painting - 92 x 65 x 6 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 2.4 inch
$53,851
Bouquet aux tournesols
Pierrick Tual
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
The Quiet Contemplation
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
Oppressor and the Oppressed
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 116.8 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 35 x 1 inch
$1,550
Playing with mother
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Ile St Louis, Paris
Philippe Olivier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$954
Composition abstraite
Marcel Mouly
Painting - 35 x 33.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.1 x 0 inch
$13,463 $10,770
Elegance Rider
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Les deux amies II
Thérèse Boucraut
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,609
My garden had a party and i wasn't invited
Valérie Butters
Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,161
Promenade dans le Lavaux, Canton de Vaud
Eugène Devaud De Madelin
Painting - 49.5 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
Evening Serenade at the Jazz Café
Ruzanna Melqumyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$650
Il lago di Castreccioni (1)
Vassilij Levi
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,683
The seagulls festival
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,350
View from Longmire Bridge II
Nancy Romanovsky
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.4 inch
$1,300
30 janvier 2024
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,805
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The tree of life
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,346
Minimal Forms 03
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$650
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.
What is special about oil painting?
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.
What's the difference between oil painting and acrylic?
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.
Is oil painting easier than watercolor?
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.