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![Painting, Guna JJ, Tracey Adams](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/499406_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black And White Abstract No. 3 - Noir et Blanc Abstrait, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/458422_1_grid.jpg)
Black And White Abstract No. 3 - 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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Black And White Abstract No. 1 - 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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Music is a Means of Rapid Transportation
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
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Biology 12 | Aquarelle Abstraite
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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Portugal 9, 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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Portugal 8, 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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Portugal 7, 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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Portugal 6, 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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Portugal 4 | 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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Portugal 3 | 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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Portugal 1 | 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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Abstract No. 3 | Abstrait No. 3
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.04 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Sign No. 31 (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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Sign No. 29 (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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Small Sign No 34 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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Blues and Reds 4 - Blue and Red Abstract (Abstrait Bleu et Rouge)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Ma vie nest qu'un souffle /Job7
John3seven
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
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Into the Flow III
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Round & Round VII
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Blessed are the pure in heart / Matt 5:8
John3seven
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
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Chemin 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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La où tu m'amènes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Patience Patience
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
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Comme un reve
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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Souvenir d'été
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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(R) evolution 34
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 102 x 102 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.2 x 40.2 inch
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(R) evolution 2
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 inch
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Revolution 51 (Abstract Painting)
Tracey Adams
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 inch
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I don't dare tell you
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 30 x 72 x 2.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 28.3 x 1 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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Sunday Feeling on a Wednesday - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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No Name or Storm On the Sea
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
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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."