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Autumn Leaves - Orange Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
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To your inner mermaid
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Unknown Series - Oblivi, I See You & Timeless
Kris Haas
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.8 inch
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[Sub]conscious - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch
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Golden sunday / 24k gold
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Contemporary twenties II / 24k gold
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Spree waves Berlin
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Arrangement léger (Light Arrangement) IV
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Sunday feeling on a monday II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
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Arrangement Léger III (Light Arrangement)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Small Blue Sign No 6 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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Sign No. 26 (Abstrait Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Old Park (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Variation - Abstract Print (Edition Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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Evening - Abstract Print (Edition Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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Horizon - Black and White Landscape
Gina Vor
Painting - 15 x 18 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
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Green Etude (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Print - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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Silent City (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Print - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
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Untitled (L'Art numérique)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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Twilight (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Print - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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Festive lights of the forest
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
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Expression
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
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Amour,Paix
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 146 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 57.5 x 35 x 1.6 inch
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Bathing at Night
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Inner dynamics
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2.2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.9 inch
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Rêve sublime (Sublime Dream)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Abstract Composition
Emilio Vedova
Painting - 25.5 x 19.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10 x 7.6 x 0 inch
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Unique story (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Whispers of the Seaside Dreams
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
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Senses like the sea
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
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The ocean is calling and I must go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
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Everything is perfect Art. 270932
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
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Early sunrise, Like a promise of...
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
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Inspired by Rotko, blue and yellow
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
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Summer joyful mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
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The world is a big mirror - Art: 270132
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
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Feelings overwhelm
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
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Evening Glow - Framed
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1 inch
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Shadows in a Square
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 135 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
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Pour le plaisir, 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
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A toute volée
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
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La vie est belle 3
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Source de vie
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Instant de légèreté
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Un monde a part
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Dans la lumière
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
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Porte bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Ma facon de voir
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Des envies et des couleurs
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Points de frontière
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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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."