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Peau de mur XVIII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,329
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Peau de mur XII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,329
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Peau de mur XIII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,329
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Peau de mur V
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,329
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Peau de mur II
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,329
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Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,214
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The Guitar Wizard
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
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Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$10,064
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Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$8,400
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Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 54 x 1 inch
$6,500 $4,875
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Dreamscape - Two Tone Painting
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1 inch
$5,800
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Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,500
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Life story, Love story (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$470
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Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,062
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Unique natural beauty
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 61 x 0 inch
$2,796
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Horizon's embrace
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,914
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The colors of the joy of the season
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
$2,348
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Summer tenderness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$5,032
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Perfect summer day
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$5,032
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Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,062
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$1,096
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Just rainy-LXXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
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Just rainy-LXXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
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$1,006
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Just rainy-LXXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
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$1,510
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Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,062
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Abstract(six hearts)-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,957
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Sui-Generis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
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Just rainy XXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$984
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Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,510
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Heart-XV (inspired by George Orwells "1984")
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
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Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
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$350
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Ethereal Blue and Gold Landscape II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1 inch
$3,400
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Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1 inch
$2,400
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Hidden Light II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
$3,400
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Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,800
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Visual Poetry
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
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Muriel Deumie
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,398
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Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue III"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$939
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Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue I"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$939
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Isa-L
Painting - 145 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 57.1 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$24,601
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Raison d'avoir tort
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,677
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Butterfly n°1240 - Résurection
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Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
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Poésie suspendue
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,006 $906
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Far & Deep
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$447
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Port | Peinture Abstraite
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 81 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,598
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Keep climbing"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,677
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Tribu aborigène - Soleil infini"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,006
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."