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The violinistt and his furry friend
Yulia Dvoiris
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$700
No name, Painting, Oil on canvas
Asher Topel
Painting - 100.1 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,900
White Horizon
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 40.64 x 40.64 x 3.81 cm Painting - 16 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$2,539
Dream Builder (Earth)
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 92 x 64 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.2 x 1 inch
$5,555
Cold Summits Vision
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 60.5 x 60.5 x 4 cm Painting - 23.8 x 23.8 x 1.6 inch
$5,201
Power in Anonymity
Ben Gulak
Painting - 76 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,678 $1,510
Close to your lips
Barbara Kieca
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
The map of a myth I
Kwok Wai Kwong
Painting - 92 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,188
Ordinary miracle
Eleonora Taranova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,876
Waiting By the Water
Sue Rosalind Vesely
Painting - 90 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,857
Marché de Plainpalais, Genève
Sergio Cecchi
Painting - 46.5 x 61.5 x 2 cm Painting - 18.3 x 24.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Farandole andine...
Patricia Henricy Cruzalegui
Painting - 30 x 79 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 31.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
La Paresse (Série : Les 7 péchés capitaux)
Nal-Vad
Painting - 79 x 79 x 2 cm Painting - 31.1 x 31.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
Landscape. Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy)
Giulio Turcato
Painting - 44 x 52 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 20.5 x 0 inch
$21,251
Le promenade au parc
Lise Le Cœur
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,013
Ste Victoire and Zola Dam view from Bibemus, After Cézanne
Madeleine Love
Painting - 41 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$1,007
Tapsing (Clumsy)
Margarita Strena-Schirch
Painting - 33 x 25.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 10 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
The art of seduction
Javier Prieto Meneses
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$895
Lavandière bretonne
Marguerita Pillini
Painting - 40 x 24.5 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,805
Nature morte au navets et choux
Luigi Venturi
Painting - 34 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,524
Untitled 8 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series
Francisco Larios
Painting - 49.5 x 49.5 x 1.1 cm Painting - 19.5 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$4,000
La Place du Molard et son Marché des fleurs
Kazimier Rubolowski
Painting - 50 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,817
Les pins parasols
Daniel Couthures
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
Grand Canyon Colorado River
Mark Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Subconscious
Gaetano Pergamo
Painting - 69.9 x 49.5 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 19.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,191
Paysages de Chine 1
Guoquan Zeng
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,698
Hidden Blossom
Zoe Elizabeth Norman
Painting - 45 x 59.9 x 3.6 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,290
Breakaway Yellow
Wendy Smith
Painting - 89.9 x 119.9 x 3.6 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,536
Crossroads in Sedniv
Victor Onyshchenko
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,125
Scène de basse cour ou la table du changeur
Bernard Pons
Painting - 95 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,684
A fly in the soup, that was the cause of the great war
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
Coupollo
Alexandre Richelieu-Beridze
Painting - 40 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
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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.