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Invisible landscape
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 157.5 x 20.3 cm Painting - 40 x 62 x 8 inch
€12,129
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Landscaping on jazz-XXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€90
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Landscaping-CXXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€110
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Petite composition 8-24
Jean François Guelfi
Painting - 41 x 34 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13.4 x 0.8 inch
€250
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Collection Bleu d'été - "Hamptons"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 30 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
€950
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Abstract R 2406
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
€1,595 €1,116
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Winter under the snow
Damien Berrard
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1 inch
€800
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Ving Mille Lieues sous les mers
Damien Berrard
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
€1,600
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Summer dreaming (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
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Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€950
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Collection privée - "Smashed 7"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,500
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Collection privée - "Smashed 6"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,950
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Collection privée - "Smashed 5"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€900
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Collection Bleu d'été - "Junior suite sea view - Windy"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€1,900
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Collection privée - "Smashed 4"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
€1,950
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Christian Valentine
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 2 inch
€1,019
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The Blue Hour (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,550
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Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
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When Things Go Well
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 57 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€981
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The way flowers look in the sun
Christian Valentine
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
€1,989
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Yellow Abstract Diptych, Diptyque Abstrait Jaune
Gina Vor
Painting - 39 x 58 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch
€300
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Nocturne-CLXXXVIII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€130
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Nocturne-CXC (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€110
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Landscaping-CLXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€120
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Nocturne-CXCVII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€130
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Nocturne-CLXII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€120
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Jump session (Jazzy)-XXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€330
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Jump session (Jazzy)-XXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€330
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Nocturne-XXXII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€105
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Abstract forest-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€550
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Abstract forest-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€550
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Abstract forest-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€600
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Abstract forest-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€600
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Hommage aux Légendes du Sport
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,000
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Paysage en Dombes
Damien Berrard
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€1,900
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Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
€485
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Summer under the storm
Damien Berrard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
€800
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Spring under the sun
Damien Berrard
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€800
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Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide 1
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€850
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Abstract 22116
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,104 €773
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Abstract 2273
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,840 €1,288
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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."