![Painting, Contre face, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1511001_1_grid.jpg)
Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Contre face, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1511001_1_grid.jpg)
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Collection privée - "Hidden and smashed portrait"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$880
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Protect the Children
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,015
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Landscaping on jazz-LXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$271
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Abstract landscape-XXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$293
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Illuminations-VIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$293
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Landscaping on jazz-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$181
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Landscaping on jazz-LXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 32 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$220
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Landscaping on jazz-LXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$271
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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
$4,502
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Liberté rentable
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 73 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,004 $803
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Histoire en foret
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,230 $1,107
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Bright Love - Blue & Gold
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500
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Perspectives enchevêtrées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,692
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La nature me raconte
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,298
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La ruée vers l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,004
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Bright Love III
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 1.5 inch
$500 $400
![Painting, La cabane tchanquée, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1424847_1_grid.jpg)
La cabane tchanquée
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 30 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,015
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Street art in the school
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 73 x 92.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.4 x 1 inch
$1,128 $1,015
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Peux pas plaire à tout le monde
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 120 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$903
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L'or en couleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$711 $640
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La femme et son chien
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$643
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Musical abstractions-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$124
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Jazzy mood-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$169 $152
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Landscaping on Jazz-LVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$282 $254
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Landscaping CXCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$322
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Musical abstractions-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$79
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Caprice-XVII (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
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Rainy sketches-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$90
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Musical abstractions - XVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$79
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Musical abstractions - XV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$79
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Berlin winter abstraction No. 5
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$316
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Les oiseaux bleus repartent à l'automne
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 114 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,257
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Sans Titre 14 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,257
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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."