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Landscaping on jazz-XCIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$508
Caprice-XXIV (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$282
Nocturne CXCXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$85
Nocturne CXCXX (Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$85
Nocturne CCXLVIII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$169
Landscaping on jazz-XCII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$293
Landscaping on jazz-XCI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$293
Caprice-XVI (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Caprice -XII (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Caprice-X (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$271
Caprice-VII (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Presentiment-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$169
Presentiment-XVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$169
Caprice-VI (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Lonely trees XXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$293
Lonely trees XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$361
Caprice-V (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Caprice-IX (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Presentiment-VIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$169
Caprice-IV (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$282
Presentiment-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$169
Caprice-II (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$271
Presentiment-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$169
Caprice-I (Paganini)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$271
Abstract VI (autumn)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 29 x 29 x 2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0.8 inch
$158
Abstract II (autumn)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 29 x 29 x 2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0.8 inch
$192
Landscaping on jazz-LXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$271
Landscaping on jazz-LI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$316
Landscaping on jazz-XLII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$316 $284
Abstract landscape-X
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 24 x 33 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$181
Landscaping on jazz-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 41 x 45 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$282
Landscaping on Jazz-XCVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$463
Eva -III
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$338
Mask
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$282
Presentiment-XIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$226
Presentiment-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$192
Presentiment-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$226
Plunging into our dreams
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 120 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,275
Time series: no time limits
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,875
At the edge of the water
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,325
Tender Deep Vibes - Tender sea
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 140 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,990
Large scale - Ocean
Eliana Sá
Painting - 105.5 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 41.5 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,200
L'homme animal
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$835
The dark and light
Juliana Haggoo
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,369
Sunset Silhouettes
Juliana Haggoo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,821
Rêveries sur les rivages du temps
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$722 $650
Machine à remonter le temps
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$677
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."