The Most Famous Oil Paintings

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THE HISTORY OF OIL PAINTINGS

WHAT IS OIL PAINT?

Oil paint is an artistic medium that consists of drying oils that hold different pigments in them. Oil art requires artists’ oil paint, which can be made by combining dry powder pigments with refined linseed oil.

OIL PAINT TEXTURE

The standard texture of oil paint is compared to smooth butter without a rough texture and not too runny. 

THE MOST FAMOUS OIL PAINTINGS OF ALL TIME

Arnolfini Portrait (1434)  by Jan van Eyck

Lady with an Ermine (1489)  by Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa (1503)  by Leonardo da Vinci

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)  by Rembrandt Van Rijn

Las Meninas (1656)  by Diego Velázquez

Girl with the Pearl Earring (1665)  by Johannes Vermeer

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801 – 1805)  by Jacques-Louis David

Whistler’s Mother (1871)  by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Impression, Sunrise (1872)  by Claude Monet

The Starry Night (1889)  by Vincent van Gogh

The Kiss (1908 – 1909)  by Gustav Klimt

American Gothic (1930)  by Grant Wood

Guernica (1937)  by Pablo Picasso

Recanati Annunciation (1534)  by Lorenzo Lotto