![Painting, A ma zone 2, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/658932_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, A ma zone 2, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/658932_1_grid.jpg)
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Petites histoires habitées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$541
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Histoires urbaines 30
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 inch
$567
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Le pacte de l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$567
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Portrait
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$119 $108
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Portrait
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$91
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Portrait
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$79
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Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL71P
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$454
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Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,775
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Éther floral en éclat d'âme
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$454
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Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,963
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La Récréation des Âmes
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$284
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Je marche seule
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$204
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Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,963
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Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$386
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Rainy erotica-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$363
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Rainy erotica-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$329
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Find The Nude 6
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$397
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Find the nude 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$397
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Find the nude 4
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$397
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Find the nude 3
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$397
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Find the nude 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$397
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Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
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Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$850
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Figure-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 110 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,496 $2,246
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Figure
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,609 $2,348
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."