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Gestural abstraction
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Fréquence d'amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 97 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,701
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Le Grand réveil
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,739
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Nature et source
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 132 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 52 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,159
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Shanti (Paix)
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,739
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Renaissance
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$4,739
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Renouveau XXI
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,422
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Colorado River (Erosion), Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
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Peace and joy of summer days (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,185
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Dance Chromatique
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$542
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Irradiations n°1
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$542
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Collection BUTTERFY N°1249
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$2,764
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The very moments (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$530
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Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$530
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Corridor in yellow"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$959
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The perfect day
Christian Valentine
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$3,000
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New York City Second Avenue
Cosmos
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$8,801
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Yellow Blossom
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,949
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Square In Blue
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,949
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Poetic landscape - White on white
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,400 $1,120
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Untitled(N° JP112BP2)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,770
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Visual Poetry X
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
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Magie colorée 3
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$508
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Butterfly "Eclosion" N°1259
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$903
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Dans la lumiere
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$440
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Magie colorée 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$440
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Trait d'union
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$440
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Un simple instant
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$440
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Un monde à part
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$440
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Un si joli petit village
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$384
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Un autre regard
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$440
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Sweet summer (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$880
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Passion estivale
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 76 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,821
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Monde invisible
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,522
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Super special offer - 30% - The best day
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$2,482
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Study for Adagio Presto
Geo Hizny
Painting - 71.12 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$5,359
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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."