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![Print, Homage to Van Gogh, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1178277_1_grid.jpg)
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Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,565
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Éther floral en éclat d'âme
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€400
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Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,375
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La Récréation des Âmes
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€250
![Photography, Je marche seule, Muriel Deumie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2132566_1_grid.jpg)
Je marche seule
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€180
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Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,375
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Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€340
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Boat-people au soleil couchant
Damien Berrard
Painting - 33 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€150
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Classic Torso
Aloyzas Smilingis
Sculpture - 34 x 22 x 16 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 8.7 x 6.3 inch
€9,000
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Find The Nude 6
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€350
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Cœur Électro - Techno Contemporain de Lyrisme Abstrait coeur
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,690
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Find the nude 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€350
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Find the nude 4
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€350
![Fine Art Drawings, Find the nude 3, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2090610_1_grid.jpg)
Find the nude 3
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€350
![Fine Art Drawings, Find the nude 2, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2086008_1_grid.jpg)
Find the nude 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€350
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Girl at the beach
Christian Valentine
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
€803
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Histoires urbaines 10
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€500
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Vivre et laisser mourir
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
€500
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Eva -II
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€300
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Act - XVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€155
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Double portrait-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
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Ancient warrior-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 43 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0 inch
€320
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Portrait-II(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
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Portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
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Double portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,500
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Rainy erotica-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€320
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Rainy erotica-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€290
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Act
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€150
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![Fine Art Drawings, Act-I, Stanislav Bojankov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1183497_1_grid.jpg)
Act-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€130
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Ancient warrior-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 43 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0 inch
€280
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Ancient warior III
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 43 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0 inch
€280
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Act-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€80
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Act-XV
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€180
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."