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![Painting, Tangle 17, Tracey Adams](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1630872_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemporary twenties - III, Sophie Mangelsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572705_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary twenties - III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch
€860
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A way to infinity 13
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,250 €1,000
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Just a sublime way to paint a tree
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200 €960
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Abstract About Creation Divinity The Beauty Of Dark Oneiric Art
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,200 €960
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Large Dark Silence Mindscape Abstract Landscape About Creation And Divinity
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,250 €1,000
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Hidden Light - Viva Magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
€3,211
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The light of the night
Eric Robin
Painting - 130 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€9,800
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Ode - Composition of 7 Oval Paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€2,456
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A Gathering of Innocents
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
€1,275
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A Theroy of Evolution
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€1,936
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Dancing out the door
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.2 inch
€1,606
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Untitled(N° COL1122P3)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,920
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Round & Round XII
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,450
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Round & Round III
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,450
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Dim as dusk and sunshine bright
Peggy Bell
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
€1,565
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Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL85
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€400
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Modern spectra and lights (With Teal)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,162
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Evergreen Garden (Silver lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€1,228
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Like nothing else (Experimental garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€1,228
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Forest and light trails
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 66 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35 x 26 x 0.7 inch
€1,889
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Natures imagery (scattering colors) 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.5 inch
€1,861
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Waterflow (Night Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,908
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Frozen Waterflow (Ice ponds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,908
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Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 32
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,908
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Orange lights and shadows
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€973
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Crystalline dawn panorama
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,917
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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."