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Gestural abstraction
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Siesta ( bajo la sombra del bambú )
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,718
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Adelfas blancas de perséfone para hades
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,094
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No entres docilmente en esa buena noche
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,718
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Celebration of colors series B #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€900
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Celebration Of Colors Series A #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€900
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In the heat of the night #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
€900
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Garden in blue mood
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 228.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 90 x 0.7 inch
€16,033
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Abstract 2247
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,093 €1,465
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Abstract 2246
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,093 €1,465
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Untitled (N° JP0822BP2)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€10,800
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Fragments d'émotion - Pourpre
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
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Brief moment of light
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
€9,500
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Poetic Landscape - Gold II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
€582
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Into the Flow IV
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,100
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Confrontation 3 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
€890
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Drizzles symphony 8
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
€2,455
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A forest song (Faces of green) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,455
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Red valley (Heat wave) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,941
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A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,455
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A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,455
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Moonlight Spectra 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 162.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 64 x 0.7 inch
€2,776
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Anata and Watashi (You & Me)
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,513
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Under the Aurora (In between frequencies) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,941
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Intricate Dreams 2 (Above Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
€2,960
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Gathering bliss Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.3 inch
€3,640
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Strange spectra 8 (iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€4,901
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Strange spectra 7 (Over bright red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€4,901
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A Lightness of Being
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€4,319
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All That Boogie-Woogie
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
€4,416
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Fresh Perspectives
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€4,464
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Dreaming in Shades of Color
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€3,445
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In Wonder and Amazement
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€4,464
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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."