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"Good art is not what it
looks like, but what it does to us."
Roy Adzak
"Oil
painting is the process of painting with
pigments
that are bound with a medium of
drying oil
— especially in early modern
Europe,
linseed oil.
Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin
such as pine resin or even
frankincense;
these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their
body and gloss. Other oils occasionally used include
poppyseed oil,
walnut oil,
and
safflower oil.
These oils confer various properties to the oil paint,
such as less yellowing or different drying times.
Certain differences are also visible in the sheen of the
paints depending on the oil. Painters often use
different oils in the same painting depending on
specific pigments and effects desired. The paints
themselves also develop a particular consistency
depending on the medium.
Although oil paint was first used in western
Afghanistan
sometime between the fifth and ninth centuries, it did
not gain popularity until the 15th century. Its practice
may have migrated westward during the Middle Ages. Oil
paint eventually became the principal medium used for
creating artworks as its advantages became widely known.
The transition began with
Early Netherlandish painting
in northern Europe, and by the height of the
Renaissance
oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced
tempera
paints in the majority of Europe."
Source:
Wikipedia
