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Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Waves, Gaëlle Wagner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1134729_1_grid.jpg)
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Biology 11 | Aquarelle Abstraite
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€150
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Small Blue Sign No 8 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
€100
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Small Blue Sign No 7 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
€100
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Manga French
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 20 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
€1,070
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Strange Mood
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
€3,200
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Amour de la nature
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,350
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Composition 16 - We Are Star Dust
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,800 €1,440
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I Leave My Days Like Autumn Forest Leaves
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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Kafkian eternity with flowers at 7 pm
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000 €900
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Enigma of Creation Greyscape Divine Silence
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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Gestural enigmatic still life abstract pot with flowers Kloska
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000 €900
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Very large size abstract enigmatic painting
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 130 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,000 €1,600
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The wonderful morning dreams of Alice - Composition 68.
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200 €1,080
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A way to infinity 15
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 90 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,500 €1,350
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Amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,480
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Green Everywhere (Caribbean dream)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€727
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Reimagined panorama 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€723
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Reimagined panorama 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€723
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Reimagined panorama 4,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€723
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Reimagined panorama 2,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€723
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Magic tree II
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,160
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Magic tree I
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
€1,160
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Joie du Coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,380
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Love 2
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,580
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Vision
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,380
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Colorado River (Erosion), Painting, Acrylic on canvas
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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Fréquence d'amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 97 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,280
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Le Grand réveil
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€4,200
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Nature et source
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 132 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 52 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,800
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Shanti (Paix)
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€4,200
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Renaissance
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€4,200
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Irradiations 5
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€380
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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."