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Richard Boigeol
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$10,046
Urban Coordinates : 939 Nights in Tokyo’s Dreamscape
Hiro Ando
Painting - 108 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$7,814
Golden Elegance : Tokyo Tower in the Night's Sonata
Hiro Ando
Painting - 180 x 144 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 56.7 x 1.2 inch
$8,372
Samuraicat’s Nikon Nocturne : Shadows Captured
Hiro Ando
Painting - 140 x 93 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 36.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,805
DIOR BLOSSOMS IN BATTLE NOCTURNES : ELEGANCE IN NEON
Hiro Ando
Painting - 130 x 105 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 41.3 x 1.2 inch
$6,140
KOHAKU REVERIE : VERMILION VEIL
Hiro Ando
Painting - 140 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,251
Arbre Feuille
Alain Husson-Dumoutier
Painting - 140 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$9,935
BLUE LOVE IN SHINJUKU’S NIGHT SYMPHONY : NISHIKIGOI LULLABY
Hiro Ando
Painting - 180 x 84 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 33.1 x 2 inch
$6,698
NO LOAN TWILIGHT : PANDASAN’S LUMINESCENT REVERIE
Hiro Ando
Painting - 137 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 53.9 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,140
ASIMO’S DANCE IN THE NOCTURNAL SYMPHONY : MECHANICAL BALLET
Hiro Ando
Painting - 108 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 42.5 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$7,814
La Joconde et l'optique
André Guillarmain
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,126
San Francisco Shoes (Mounted on wood pegboard)
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 120.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.6 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,500
Avignon Castle
Alexandr Reznichenko
Painting - 130 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$6,698
Bianco lombardo #4
Antonio Pedretti
Painting - 100 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$10,046
Bianco lombardo #2
Antonio Pedretti
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,698
I racconti del bosco #6
Antonio Pedretti
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$8,930
Bianco Lombardo #10
Antonio Pedretti
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$15,628
I racconti del bosco #7
Antonio Pedretti
Painting - 80 x 175 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 68.9 x 0.4 inch
$15,628
Bianco Lombardo #8
Antonio Pedretti
Painting - 200 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
$22,325
Unidentified Flying Object
Romeo Melikyan
Painting - 75 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,800
The Abandoned Ship
Romeo Melikyan
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,688
Le subtil aléatoire noir n°2
Carole Becam
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,456
Return from Egypt
Stelly Grancharov
Painting - 89 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Jardin d'hiver
Sergey Kovalenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,512
Dark sacred night
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 114 x 147 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.9 x 1.6 inch
$5,191
Back Stage
Bonaventura Aumatell Tarradellas
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Le pèlerin chasseur d'esprits
Timothy Archer
Painting - 160 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$8,149
L'été À La Mer Noire
Alina Khrapchynska
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,014
Le Voyage À La Mer
Alina Khrapchynska
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,478
1969 White Paris Blanc Bowling Bowling à Paris 2
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
$3,293
Sheep North Yorks Moors
Robert Wells
Painting - 27 x 27 x 3 cm Painting - 10.6 x 10.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,126
En Olivier - Series lll - A View to the Church
Selwyn Midgen
Painting - 40 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 2 inch
$3,907
Labyrinthe sans salade
Philippe Azema
Painting - 143 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 56.3 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,353
Bateaux sous la nuit étoilée Lucky boats under the sky with diamonds
Peter Stilton
Painting - 28 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 11 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,526
TRAIN IS LEAVING AGAIN : TRANSIENT FAREWELLS
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 80 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$4,800
Still life with a fiddlestick
Zbigniew Wozniak
Painting - 53 x 65 cm Painting - 20.9 x 25.6 inch
$447
Deux portraits
Anastas Kamburov
Painting - 84.5 x 69.5 x 2 cm Painting - 33.3 x 27.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,307
Vue du lac Léman et Dents du Midi
Louis Henri Salzmann
Painting - 60.5 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.8 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,288
The Twisted Tongue Tied Truth, 2017
Adam Gunn
Painting - 123 x 145 cm Painting - 48.4 x 57.1 inch
$4,000
Love is where you look for it
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1 inch
$3,349
Maisons Saint-Gué Jaune 002
Marion Zylberman
Painting - 81 x 120 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 inch
$4,286
1989 Maternité Motherhood Portrait Lise Arnaud
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 147 x 97 x 0.75 cm Painting - 57.9 x 38.2 x 0.3 inch
$17,805
Aphrodite de fleurs
Angela Vertsoni
Painting - 90 x 110 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
$4,019
Bord de Mer en Bretagne
Lionel le Jeune
Painting - 45 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$558
Au carnaval, la lucane gourmande pêche des dattes farcies
Harry Walker
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
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Peinture 03-2023-18
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,340
Autumn forest
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000
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
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
$1,451
The beauty of dance XII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 49 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,898
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.