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Floral Meadow
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,928
Blue Circles on Orange
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,361 $1,089
You are full of Sunlight
Lilly Muth
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,928
Harmony in Flight
Armen Vahramyan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$737
But by choice
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,500 $1,350
Untitled from transFormations cycle (dyptich)
Klaudia Lata
Painting - 200 x 160 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 inch
$4,537 $4,084
White Flowers in Glass
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$907 $726
Nouveaux horizons
Pauline Bailly
Painting - 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$624 $561
Urban Symphony
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$999
Dance
Graciella Castellano-Saavedra
Painting - 65 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$737 $664
Armenian Beauty
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Olympic Energy Paris 2024 (L'Energie Olympique Paris 2024)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,129
Underwater / Orange And Blue
Simon Findlay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,475
Blue Lilac and Purple
Paulo Gnecco
Painting - 95 x 190 x 4 cm Painting - 37.4 x 74.8 x 1.6 inch
$5,672
Rhythmic Color Symphony
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$999
Mystic Patterns
Artur Hakobjanyan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
The Last Rays of the Sun
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,600 $1,200
Du côté de Paimpol (Série)
Charlotte Abecassis
Painting - 56 x 42 cm Painting - 22 x 16.5 inch
$1,475
Abstracted Landscape
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 45.7 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 18 x 0.2 inch
$1,460
1958 Le grand Bleu Blue (1)
Abdallah Benanteur
Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,212 $1,106
Le relais des postes d'apres Pissarro
Pol Arago
Painting - 38 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$862
Red Flowers à la fenêtre
Julien Cuny
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,836
Abstract Still Life
Liana Ohanyan
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,400
Même pas peur - scène de vie figurative
Christiane Dumon
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,560
Animal Painting #018-1632
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,543
Embrace your strengths
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$964
Riga Embankment (1)
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 118 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 46.5 x 0.8 inch
$907
Elevations - Paysage imaginaire et architecture
Danièle Lemius
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,781
Flowers of hope
Tetiana Adamovich
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,361
Apples 23
Rafal Gadowski
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,815 $1,633
The Reluctance of September Leaves
Patricia Ariel
Painting - 61 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19 x 0.2 inch
$1,225
Como Lake Italy
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,000 $800
The Love Seat, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Robert LeMar
Painting - 38.1 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,060
Murmur of tender leaves
Paulo Jimenez
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,600
Still Life With a Cat
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 65 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Packed Grey Heaven
Yrjö Edelmann
Painting - 65 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$36,866
Ying, Love Cures No.1
Xiao Ying Chen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,588
Pond with water lilies
Schagen Vita
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$964
Peinture D1-2024-07
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$1,361
Mario is in Love
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,630 $3,267
Melody of Enchantment
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$600
Tapestry of Anatolia
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 55 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,000
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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.