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![Painting, Hide & seek III, Paulo Gnecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173581_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Success comes in waves, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214234_1_grid.jpg)
Success comes in waves
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 115 x 0.3 cm Painting - 80.7 x 45.3 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Success comes in waves, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202985_1_grid.jpg)
Success comes in waves
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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Collection privée - "Shapes & Colors 1"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.9 inch
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Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
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Melodie Monocromatiche - Aqua
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Lumières d'automne"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
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![Painting, And the prow of its foams, Nikolaos Schizas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1912965_1_grid.jpg)
And the prow of its foams
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
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Earth Calls 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Don't worry, beach happy
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,882
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The ocean stirs the heart, inspires ...
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,768
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Meet me where the sky touches the sea
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,768
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Coves, Pools and The Hidden Flows
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$5,594
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Positano The View From The Third Floor
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,594
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Melodie Monocromatiche - Forest Green
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
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The Skies At Maruyama Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,262 $3,836
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Océan au Crépuscule
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 150 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,369
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When Things Go Well
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 57 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 41.3 x 0 inch
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Portugal 5 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Blue Sign 2 - Minimalist Abstract | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, White and Black (Abstrait Blanc et Noir), Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/482977_1_grid.jpg)
White and Black (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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Whispers of the sea
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
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Butterfly effect
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
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Contempoorary twenties
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Black And White Abstract No. 2 - Noir et Blanc Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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Sunday feeling on a wednesday
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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The Black (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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Primavera en el lago
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Abstract No. 9 | Abstrait 9
Gina Vor
Painting - 78.5 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 30.9 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Sans titre, Shirley Goldfarb](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/819312_1_grid.jpg)
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."