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Gestural abstraction
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Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,304
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Renouveau 2
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,645
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Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,645
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Peau de Mur 25
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,645
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Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,645
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Peau de mur 20
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,697
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Peau de mur 19
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,697
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Peau de mur 10
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,914
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Peau de mur 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 61 x 142 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 55.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,578
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Peau de mur 6
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 134 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 52.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,211
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Peau de Mur 15
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,645
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Peau de Mur 14
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,645
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Peau de Mur 16
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Dispersion 14
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Dispersion 13
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,198
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Dispersion 12
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Dispersion 10
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Et puis...plus rien III
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Et puis...plus rien V
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Renouveau 15
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,198
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Petals of Life's Transience
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Painting - 155 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,572
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Embracing the Moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$2,740
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Symphony of love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,299
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Eternal symphony of love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,299
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Painting - 75 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,527
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Et puis...plus rien VI
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Et puis...plus rien II
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Dispersion IX
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,310
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Peau de mur IV
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 120 x 160 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 63 x 1.2 inch
$5,435
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Peau de mur I
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 114 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Et puis...plus rien VII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Et puis...plus rien IV
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
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Dispersion VIII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,093
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Dispersion I
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,198
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$4,249
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$2,600
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$3,600
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Visual comfort
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Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,800
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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."