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A fragile balance (Abstract Expressionism Painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 50 x 150 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 inch
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Morning Light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 110 x 140 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.1 inch
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Verspielte See (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 80 x 150 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 inch
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Sail (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 80 x 150 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 inch
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Mountain and Valley V (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 60 x 100 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 inch
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La couleur me fait peur
Yichao Sun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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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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Kris Haas
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.8 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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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
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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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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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Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 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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Daniela Pasqualini
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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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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."