or mounted on a rigid panel. Other supports are also used such as cardboard or wood. Several types of diluents as well as painting mediums are used to facilitate application, or to modify its texture.

Born from classical workshops and large formats, the painter's traditional profession was and remains the referential basis of the oil technique. The pictorial layers of the painting are superimposed according to the principle of "fat on lean" and exploit the transparencies of certain pigments, combined with that of the mediums. They are called "juice" (very little pigment and a lot of thinner), "glaze" (very little pigment and a lot of full-bodied medium in resin), "vellatures" (very little pigment, lots of full-bodied medium in resin and a little white). As opposed to "paste", "material", "charge".

She appeared at the end of Middle Ages in the West and Flemish primitives generalized its use, supplanting the technique of tempera. Over the years, the technique of oil painting has undergone changes linked to technical progress and aesthetic developments. From a technique based mainly on the superposition of glaze, as practiced by the Flemings and Florentines, oil painting has evolved into a more paste technique, enriched with mediums coniferous and characteristic of schools Dutch (Rembrandt, Neck), Flemish (Rubens), And Venetian (Titian, Tintoretto) and, thereafter, Impressionists who were the first to use the tube paint that appeared with theindustrialization.
Oil painting is considered in the West as the queen technique. Of the Renaissance in the twentieth century, it was the first technique learned and used by artists.

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