Can someone further explain this phrase in paintings?

Question

In many paintngs, on the side of the paintings, are the painter's name, date, and a lot of iinformation. I noticed that a lot og these have the phrase "oil on canvas"
What does that mean exactly? Did the artist use oil pastels?

Answer 1

I use the phrase 'oils on canvas.' The oils refers to oil paint, not oil pastels.

Answer 2

It means oil paint.

But I've never know any artist, alive or dead, who provides all that information on the finished canvas. We simply don't add 'oil on canvas' to the painting and usually no information but our signature and perhaps the date. Many artists only sign their name to the actual painting. Others, usually with modern abstracts, don't even sign the canvas and instead sign and date the back of the canvas.

It you see all that other information on the actual canvas you're probably looking at a reproduction, a print, for sale, and the extra information is offered in the border outside the print, not on the canvas.

Answer 3

Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint consisting of small pigment particles suspended in a drying oil. Many artists today consider oil paint to be one of the fundamental art media; something that a student should learn to appreciate, because of its properties and use in previous, very popular artwork. Typical qualities of oil paint include:
*the long open time, where paint will not dry for up to several weeks, allowing the artist to work on a painting for several sessions.
*the propensity for the paint to blend into surrounding paint allowing very subtle blending of colors.
*vivid, high chroma colors

Answer 4

Oil paint on a canvas.

Answer 5

It describes the midium that the artist used. That means oil paint on canvas. Like oil pastels on canvas, acrylic on canvas or watercolor.

Answer 6

OIL PAINT!