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Celebration of colors series B #4
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,153
Celebration of colors series A #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,038
In the arms of an angel
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,038
Color falls gently
Christian Valentine
Painting - 91.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 12 x 2 inch
$700
Makes things better
Christian Valentine
Painting - 30.5 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 36 x 2 inch
$600
Changing destinies
Christian Valentine
Painting - 101.6 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 16 x 2 inch
$800
Life is change, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christian Valentine
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 inch
$700
Abstract P 2306
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 42 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$342 $240
Abstract P 2305
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 60 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$342 $240
Abstract P 2304
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 60 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$342 $240
Modish Memories
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,536 $2,283
Winning freedom !
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$2,767
Abstract 2377
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2156
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,602 $1,821
Fragments d'émotion - Royale
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,729
Fragments d'émotion - Outre mer
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,729
Fragments d'émotion - Eternel
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,729
Abstract 2355
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2352
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2341
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,602 $1,821
Abstract 2333
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,286 $2,300
Abstract 2330
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,286 $2,300
Abstract 2329
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,286 $2,300
Abstract 2325
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2322
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2321
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2317
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,738 $1,917
Abstract 2306
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2305
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Abstract 2304
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$4,792 $3,355
Abstract 2302
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,602 $1,821
Abstract 22168
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,465 $1,725
Abstract 22157
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 90 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,533 $1,773
Abstract 22156
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,602 $1,821
Abstract 22154
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 90 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,533 $1,773
Abstract 22145
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,328 $1,629
Exhibit 2204
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,738 $1,917
Exhibit 2203
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,108 $2,875
Exhibit 2202
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,423 $2,396
Abstract 2297
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,465 $1,725
Abstract 2292
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,465 $1,725
Untitled(N° COL1122P1)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$5,534
Abstract 2285
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,602 $1,821
Un simple instant
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$450
Urban Ocean
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$692
Les Voiles Ecarlates
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 70 x 40 cm Painting - 27.6 x 15.7 inch
$1,384
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."