![Painting, Smarties, Rita Vandenherrewegen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1444008_1_grid.jpg)
Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Smarties, Rita Vandenherrewegen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1444008_1_grid.jpg)
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Un monde à part
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$454
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Un si joli petit village
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$395
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Un autre regard
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$454
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Looking for Anomalies
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,450
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Yellow Blossom
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,071
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Square In Blue
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,071
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Linen Light, Mixed Media on Canvas
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 inch
$450
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Longue Vue dans l'Espace
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$128
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Liberté du Vent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$128
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Liberté du Vent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$128
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La Couleur d'Agir
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$128
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Espoir dans le Vent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$128
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Croix Point de Croix
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$128
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Réflexion Matérieuse
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
$128
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Butterfly "Eclosion" N°1259
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$930
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Subjective - XII
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$675
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Monde invisible
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,722
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New Collection! Golden Thoughts
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,815
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New Collection Treasure
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,815
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Promeneur du jour IV
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$582
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Promeneur du jour III
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$582
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Promeneur du jour II
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$582
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Amour incandescent - Lyrisme abstrait
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,198
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Naturalesa en suspensió 3
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 100 x 100 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$1,163
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Untitled - pink marble black
Ilja Freer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,338
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Untitled - flower marble
Ilja Freer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,338
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The origin of the earth
Ilja Freer
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,849
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Study for Adagio Presto
Geo Hizny
Painting - 71.12 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$5,524
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Split Cell XV (Winter Solstice)
Peggy Bell
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,582
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Split Cell - Concentric Lines I
Peggy Bell
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,367
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Irradiations n°1
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$558
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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."