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Gestural abstraction
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In constant motion (City life) 4
Nestor Toro
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Collection privée - "Shapes & Colors 1"
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Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.9 inch
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Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
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And the prow of its foams
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
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Earth Calls 2
Gina Vor
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Pulse of human civilisation
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 190 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 74.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,118
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New opportunities
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 190 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 74.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,005
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Don't try. Do!
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,918
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You know exactly where to go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,862
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Yellow tree (Rooted Reverence)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 61 x 0 inch
Price upon request
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Specific moment of morning (red sun and black mountain)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 125 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 80.7 x 0 inch
Price upon request
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Fuchsia sunrise with seagulls (Unveiling Life's Richness)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
Price upon request
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Just rainy-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$169 $152
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Step by step like wave by wave
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 135 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,008
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Catch the fair wind
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,975
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Wonderful fairy tale
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,008
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Whispers of the sea
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
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Butterfly effect
Nikolaos Schizas
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Comme un ciel sans nuage
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
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Portugal 5 | 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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Blue Sign 2 - Minimalist Abstract | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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White and Black (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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Contempoorary twenties
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Black And White Abstract No. 2 - 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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Sunday feeling on a wednesday
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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The Black (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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Primavera en el lago
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 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."