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Gestural abstraction
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Shadows in a Square
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 135 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
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Pour le plaisir, 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
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A toute volée
Rita Vandenherrewegen
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La vie est belle 3
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Source de vie
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Dans la lumière
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
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Porte bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Ma facon de voir
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Des envies et des couleurs
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Points de frontière
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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La part belle
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Iroquoïan
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
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Un moment juste parfait
Rita Vandenherrewegen
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Rien n'est impossible
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Parchemin de Vie
Jérémie Rebourgeard
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Brumification, Absorbtion
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Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
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Painting - 90 x 210 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 82.7 x 0 inch
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Fugue (Abstrait Coloré)
Aloyzas Smilingis
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A la recherche de couleurs 5
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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A la recherche de couleurs III
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
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Volker Mayr
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Arrangement léger (Light Arrangement) V
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Caroline Vis
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Gestural abstraction
The phrase gestural abstraction refers to a way of making art - not what necessarily gets painted, but how it does. By abandoning the application of paint to a surface in a controlled and premeditated way, gestural painters apply paint intuitively, physically, by dripping, splattering, pouring, smearing or throwing it at the surface itself. What matters to the gestural abstraction painters then isn't the paint but the physicality, honesty, intuition and deep personal expression. This in turn leads to the artist abandoning a focus on subject matter, turning inward for inspiration. As such, the act of painting itself becomes the subject. Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Franz Kline led this movement from the 1940s onwards, with Jackson Pollock undoubtedly being the most notable with his pierced paint tins, dripping across the surface of Number 1A, 1948 (1948). Abstract gestural painters explore their deepest emotions and they express that part of themselves during the physical act of painting. Pollock would later note that he had no fears about making changes to a painting, because, he said, the work has a life of its own. The painting itself is a relic of the action, it is a recording of the gestures made. Still influencing artists today, the likes of Caroline Vis and Sebastien Desnos (s3b desnos) both reference Pollock in their work, either echoing the expression of emotion or indeed as Desnos puts it, “action painting."