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![Print, In Motion - 01, Eric Brocherie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141115_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le monde en violette, Yichao Sun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140950_1_grid.jpg)
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A la recherche de couleurs II
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$508
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Celebration of colors series B #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,015
![Painting, Celebration Of Colors Series A #2, Volker Mayr](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1393404_1_grid.jpg)
Celebration Of Colors Series A #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,015
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In the heat of the night #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$1,015
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Garden in blue mood
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 228.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 90 x 0.7 inch
$16,520
![Painting, Fragments d'émotion - Pourpre, Bonus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1961253_1_grid.jpg)
Fragments d'émotion - Pourpre
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,692
![Painting, Deep Within, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1885476_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Anata and Watashi (You & Me), Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1880880_1_grid.jpg)
Anata and Watashi (You & Me)
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,650
![Painting, Against the Grain, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1880766_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Gathering bliss Triptych, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858794_1_grid.jpg)
Gathering bliss Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.3 inch
$3,750
![Painting, Cock of the Walk, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858452_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fiddle Faddle, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858269_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sweeper, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858176_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, All Along the Lines, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1857948_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Unforeseeable, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1853145_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Man-Made Object, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852830_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, A Lightness of Being, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852227_1_grid.jpg)
A Lightness of Being
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$4,450
![Painting, All That Boogie-Woogie, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1851948_1_grid.jpg)
All That Boogie-Woogie
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$4,550
![Painting, Fresh Perspectives, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1843305_1_grid.jpg)
Fresh Perspectives
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$4,600
![Painting, Past Lives, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1843191_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dreaming in Shades of Color, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842849_1_grid.jpg)
Dreaming in Shades of Color
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$3,550
![Painting, Duck and Cover, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842750_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hybrid, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842498_1_grid.jpg)
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In Wonder and Amazement
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$4,600
![Painting, Voyager, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831476_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, When the spirit moves me, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830462_1_grid.jpg)
When the spirit moves me
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
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![Painting, The inevitable conclusion (Diptych), Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1817742_1_grid.jpg)
The inevitable conclusion (Diptych)
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1.5 inch
$4,650
![Painting, Working On It, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1817502_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Poetic Landscape - Gold II, Daniela Pasqualini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1688031_1_grid.jpg)
Poetic Landscape - Gold II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
$600
![Painting, This side, the other shore, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551825_1_grid.jpg)
This side, the other shore
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$7,052
![Painting, Pure joy, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551786_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The moment of miracle happening, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551777_1_grid.jpg)
The moment of miracle happening
Sophie Qin
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,593
![Painting, Multidimensional perspective of life, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551768_1_grid.jpg)
Multidimensional perspective of life
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,149
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Ville après la pluie
Yichao Sun
Painting - 150 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,770
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Into the Flow IV
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,369
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![Painting, Meadow 34, Max Yaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156647_1_grid.jpg)
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Confrontation 3 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,004
![Painting, Drizzles symphony 8, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1885620_1_grid.jpg)
Drizzles symphony 8
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
![Painting, A forest song (Faces of green) 2, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1885173_1_grid.jpg)
A forest song (Faces of green) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
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Red valley (Heat wave) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
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."