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Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Buddha's window 4, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1879866_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 5, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1879863_1_grid.jpg)
A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
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BLOSSOMING OF THE TRUTH
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$6,893
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Collection papillon n°1260
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$977
![Painting, Eclosion multicolors, Patrick Salamone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977966_1_grid.jpg)
Eclosion multicolors
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$919
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Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,659
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The Guitar Wizard
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,872
![Print, Mask (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, 2007), Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1179807_1_grid.jpg)
Mask (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 64 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$1,149
![Painting, Golden desert of Dubai, Sandra Szaja](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1102290_1_grid.jpg)
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$10,340
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Island Vibes - Magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$3,600
![Painting, Visual comfort, Daniela Pasqualini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130919_1_grid.jpg)
Visual comfort
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,800
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Dyptique 1
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 116 x 178 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 70.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,732
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Keep climbing"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,494
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Collection Bleu d'été - "There is no planet B - Earth"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,091
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Autumnal mood-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,494
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Jump session(Jazzy)-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
![Painting, Jump session(Jazzy)-XII, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205380_1_grid.jpg)
Jump session(Jazzy)-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,608
![Painting, Autumnal mood-I, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204785_1_grid.jpg)
Autumnal mood-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,264
![Painting, Jump session(Jazzy)-X, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203606_1_grid.jpg)
Jump session(Jazzy)-X
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,011
![Painting, Imagination play-VI(Homage to Jean Dubuffet), Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203050_1_grid.jpg)
Imagination play-VI(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,091
![Painting, Imagination play-IV(Homage to Jean Dubuffet), Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202769_1_grid.jpg)
Imagination play-IV(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,091
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![Painting, Just rainy-XLI, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174347_1_grid.jpg)
Just rainy-XLI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,091
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![Painting, N° 21.12 Éclat de lumière, Isa-L](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2125497_1_grid.jpg)
N° 21.12 Éclat de lumière
Isa-L
Painting - 145 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 57.1 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$25,276
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Just rainy-XCIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,091
![Painting, Just rainy-XCIII, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2017356_1_grid.jpg)
Just rainy-XCIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,126
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![Painting, Just rainy-LXXXV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559760_1_grid.jpg)
Just rainy-LXXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
![Painting, Just rainy-LXXXII, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1554003_1_grid.jpg)
Just rainy-LXXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
![Painting, Just rainy-LXXXI, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1553586_1_grid.jpg)
Just rainy-LXXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,551
![Painting, Just rainy-LXXV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1546017_1_grid.jpg)
Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,091
![Painting, Heart(black and white)-IV, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1525140_1_grid.jpg)
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,298
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Abstract(six hearts)-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,011
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Sui-Generis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,723
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Blue heart - XXXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,551
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Heart-XV (inspired by George Orwells "1984")
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,068 $1,861
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Monument-VII (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 68 x 48 x 0.1 cm Print - 26.8 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$1,149
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Monument-VI (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,149
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Monument-V (Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$574
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Sui-Generis_IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,723
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Douce Mélancholie(Sweet Melancholy)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$563
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Sunday feeling on a thursday - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$540
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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."