![Painting, Flowers 8, Max Yaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1446162_1_grid.jpg)
Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Flowers 8, Max Yaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1446162_1_grid.jpg)
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Transparency II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,389
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Silence between the lines
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,413
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On a sunny day #2
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,021
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Fiordalisi tra il grano
Marco Saporiti
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$230
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Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$619
![Painting, Sin título. Serie Selvática, Dario Berterreche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174987_1_grid.jpg)
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$620
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Create From Your Heart
Darlene Watson
Painting - 203.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 80 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$3,765
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You have captured my heart
Darlene Watson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$3,916
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I've fallen for you
Darlene Watson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$3,916
![Painting, You put a spell on me baby, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045742_1_grid.jpg)
You put a spell on me baby
Darlene Watson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$3,916
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Autumn In The Hampton's
Darlene Watson
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,533
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Love in Santorini
Darlene Watson
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,445
![Painting, Sassy As Salt Water Taffy 02, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1814403_1_grid.jpg)
Sassy As Salt Water Taffy 02, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Darlene Watson
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,165
![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
$7,181
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The moment of miracle happening
Sophie Qin
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,732
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Multidimensional perspective of life
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,261
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Marilyn Monroe, Make love not war #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 67 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.4 x 21.9 x 0 inch
$1,149
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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
$6,893
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Naturalesa en suspensió 5
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 100 x 100 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$1,149
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L’arbre éternel
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 81 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,964
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Colors of happiness
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 140 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,434
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Improvisation-LI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50.8 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$400
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El gran vacio
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$5,170
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Foisonnement
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,872
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Smooth and rich
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,217
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Jardin secret
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,791
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Richesse et nuances
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,676
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Colors moving
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,515
![Painting, Trees at sunset 4 by M.Y., Max Yaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210075_1_grid.jpg)
Trees at sunset 4 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,551
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Never a Dull Moment
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,950
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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."