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Rectangles de couleurs
Damien Berrard
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$559
Biology 8 | Aquarelle Abstraite
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
A little pink mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$760
Abstract 2255
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,511 $1,758
Landscaping-CXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$134
Landscaping-CXLVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$123
Landscaping-CXLII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$123
Balancing Act 4
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20.1 inch
$1,718
Psychedelic flower
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,006
Meditation
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$671
Not there 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$615
Not There 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$615
Cosmic Beasts
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$615
Las risas en mis sueños
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$4,889
Stripes
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 81 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$4,137 $3,516
ÉlectricStreet
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$7,826 $7,043
Cubists landscape-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$168
Cubists landscape-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$157
Abstract forest-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$335
Music(blue night)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$335
Imagination play-VII(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$447
Imagination play-II(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$436
Imagination play-I(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$335
Abstract 22104
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 22105
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 23110
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,379 $1,665
Abstract R 2321
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,246 $1,573
Abstract P 2306
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 42 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$330 $231
Abstract 2156
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,511 $1,758
Exhibit 2203
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,964 $2,775
Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$291
Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$436
Audrey et la Piqûre des Illusions
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$671 $604
Abstract J. Pollock style painting by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$1,785
Promeneur du jour V
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$559
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."