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Assis sur la lumière
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,396
Raison d'avoir tort
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,745
L'éphémère écarlate
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,163
Expressionisme abstrait
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$930
Diversité préservée
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
Street in the Street
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,035
Les vagues, nous emporterons
Giovanni. D
Painting - 29 x 29 x 5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 inch
$465
Visual Dance I - Black & White - Framed- Ready to hang
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
$400
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL85
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$465
Boscos verds y lluna
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,489
Els arbres ploren III
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$523
Invisible landscape
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 157.5 x 20.3 cm Painting - 40 x 62 x 8 inch
$12,500
Timeless vibes - Composition of 70 paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 172.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 68 x 1 inch
$8,100
Mesmerizing dreams
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$9,200
Daisy Daffodil And Dahlias
Darlene Watson
Painting - 121.9 x 243.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 96 x 1.5 inch
$6,078
Riflesso blue
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$9,000
Golden view
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,800
Melodie Monocromatiche - Classic Blue
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$500
Papillons abstrait N°1208
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,279
Papillons N°1244
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,582
Collection Bleu d'été - "Oasis"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$3,373
Abstract forest-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$640
Abstract forest-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$640
Abstract forest-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$698
Abstract forest-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$698
Abstract landscape-XL
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$733
Jazzy mood-LXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$686
Just rainy-XCIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$593
Just rainy-XCVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$605
Just rainy-XCVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$582
Just rainy-XCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.3 inch
$628
Just rainy-XCII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$582
Emotional fragments-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$756
Emotional fragments-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$756
Emotional fragments-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$756
Jazzy mood-LXXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$756
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."