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Photo Before Robbery
Areg Vahramyan
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
Whispers of the Forest
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Mirrored Dreams
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Harmony to the Horizon
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Love without End
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
It Is Summer Warm Rain At Sunset
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 40 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
A girl with a turban
Plamen Ovcharov
Painting - 76 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
€580
We All Live Under the Same Sky
Nick Vivian
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€2,939
El jardí dels monjos
Francesc Casademont
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
The Lares and Di Penates
Alexander Levich
Painting - 70 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Catacomb of Callixtus
Alexander Levich
Painting - 22 x 82 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 32.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Et renaissent les digitales
Brigitte Di Scala
Painting - 70 x 140 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1 inch
€3,200
The early spring garden
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
Wind dancing with spring flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
Primavera red flowers
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
The Heroic Rescuer
Areg Vahramyan
Painting - 60 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Stay In Your Magic
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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White Red - 7553
Renato Spagnoli
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
Water Lilies
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 45 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,055
Night lights of Prague
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,438
Blooming irises
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,055
Field of flowers
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,918
Bouquet of wild flowers
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,534
Une Allée du Luxembourg
Francis Moreau
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
After rain
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
€1,055
Silence evening
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 35 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€959 €767
Peonies and Mountains
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€700
Bouquet Beautiful
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 59.5 x 69.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.4 x 27.4 x 0.7 inch
€700
Yellow Rose.
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 59 x 69 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.2 x 27.2 x 0.7 inch
€700
Abstract Spring Awakening
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€575
Wildflowers
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 75 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,438
Water Lilies
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 35 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€863 €734
Water Lilies
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,419 €1,135
Before the Rain
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 50 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,534
Peaches on the tree
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,438
In The Morning / Oil Painting 18
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
L'esquisse du silence
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,690
Caribbean Coral Reef Textured Painting
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€270
Vibrant Meadow Bouquet
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€958
White Orange Red 7532
Renato Spagnoli
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,900
The beauty of dance XIII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Transparence grise
Françoise Danel
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
Home is where the Heart is
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Blue Bonnets calling me Home
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
God gave me You
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Mystical Majestic Trees
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Big Thicket Mysteries
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Waves blue horizon 2 - Sunset, skyline, seascape, ocean turquoise waves (1)
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€820
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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.