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The Childhood of Chaos 10 original masterpiece O Kloska (1977)
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,379 $1,241
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Positano The View From The Third Floor
Victoria Horkan
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$5,713
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Vue depuis une fenêtre sur Bora Bora
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,034
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Spectres II
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$115
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Perles d'Orient
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 37.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14.8 inch
$115
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Surfing with the alien
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 37.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14.8 x 0.4 inch
$115
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Cavaliers au combat
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$115
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Atomes
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$115
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Another world
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$115
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Compétition de planches à voiles
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$115
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Risorgere dalle ceneri
Gaëlle Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,413
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Not there 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$632
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Abstract 10 - Abstrait 10
Gina Vor
Painting - 78.5 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 30.9 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$919
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No Quarter with Cartier
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,379
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Dreamscape - Zenobia
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$2,800
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$448
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Biology 8 | Aquarelle Abstraite
Gina Vor
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$172
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Magie Disney en Couleurs
Muriel Deumie
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Création A201
Jean-Jacques Marie
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,136
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Création A202
Jean-Jacques Marie
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,136
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Meditation
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$689
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Not There 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$632
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Promeneur du jour V
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$574
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Cosmic Beasts
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$632
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Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,068 $1,654
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Victoria Horkan
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,625
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The Storm Participant
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,353
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."