Oil Painting For other uses, see Oil. Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Fall. 1573. oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris Oil on canvas, 2009. Jaen, Spain in art known as oil to the oils that are used to combine with other substances and thus obtain a product suitable for painting and as an extension, they were calling the same painting oils itself. The use of oil has been known for modernity and was already widespread among artists of the Middle Ages especially when combined with egg tempera or fresco. With this mixture retouched the work done in plaster and got so dry faster. With the advancement and research of alchemy mixtures were inventing favorable results of the painting. The more oil used was that used linseed oil mixed with mineral pigments are those that provide the color, but was not alone and every artist in his studio had its own formula that kept very secret.Many followed the advice and experiences written in the Treaty of the monk Theophilus is already known and is mentioned in 1100. This painting from the mixture of oils painter offered many advantages, including the power to do their work slowly and unhurriedly finishing (the opposite of what was happening in tempera or fresco), the power to revisit the work every day, vary the composition, colors, etc.. The basis on which the oil is applied are varied, without thereby vary its appearance. What varies is whether the technique of preparation of these bases is very different because paint on canvas, board, fresh or copper. From the seventeenth century Baroque painters chose to support your favorite oil paintings on canvas, this being more practical for developing large compositions, as the table. Thus the material of importance taken by the artists who began using the word canvas or oil painting rather than to describe the paintings.The first large oil painting artists were the flamingos. Tradition holds that it was the Van Eyck brothers who invented oil painting. This statement, false, is that indeed it was them, especially Jan, who exploited the numerous possibilities of this technique, hitherto underused. Van Eyck used oil with great precision and the Venetians (Titian) will extend through the possibilities of texture of oil-based paint. Aerial perspective is developed by Leonardo da Vinci (Mona Lisa). The Flemish Rubens, Baroque painter of dark or neutral base. These painters were characterized as direct in the extreme (layers with great vitality and minimal corrections). Rembrandt created the “grisaille” he became the academic method in the eighteenth century. Romanticism is more technical freedom. In impressionism painters use a more direct technique.In abstract expressionism is an attempt to override the expression rather than technical accuracy like the neo-expressionist. The team are artists who use these brushes (bristle white or red sable, also of synthetic hair, and different sizes), spatula, easel and palette. The fundamental skills are, work in layers, or direct “alla Prima”.