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![Painting, Prussian Blue | Abstrait | Abstract, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/981267_1_grid.jpg)
Prussian Blue | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Supernova 1 | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Orange Ying and Yang | Abstract | Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 20 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
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The storm tossed sea
Christian Valentine
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 2 inch
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Black Art 8, Abstrait Noir 8
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
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Untitled 3 - Petite Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
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![Painting, Diamonds In The Sky - Bleu Abstrait, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/424458_1_grid.jpg)
Diamonds In The Sky - Bleu Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
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![Painting, Red Abstraction - Rouge Abstrait, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/420210_1_grid.jpg)
Red Abstraction - Rouge Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
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Summer Vibes 9 (Abstrait Coloré)
Gina Vor
Painting - 25 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
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Summer Vibes 10 (Géométrique Abstrait)
Gina Vor
Painting - 25 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
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Winter is Here, Black and White Abstract (Noir et Blanc Abstrait)
Gina Vor
Painting - 20 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
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Summer Vibes 5 - Bordeaux Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 25 x 25 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
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Expressionism in Red - Rouge Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 17.5 x 17.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.1 inch
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Ma vie nest qu'un souffle /Job7
John3seven
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
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Blessed are the pure in heart / Matt 5:8
John3seven
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Into the Flow III
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Round & Round VII
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Introspection 2021
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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La tête en l'air (Head in the Air)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Inner landscapes
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Energetic We Are
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 110 x 150 x 2.2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.9 inch
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Kreuzberg Rust
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
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Invincible été / invincible summer IV
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Sunday feeling on a tuesday
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Urban Jazz Friedrichshain
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Urban Jazz Berlin
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, La Légèreté (The Lightness), Sophie Mangelsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/977448_1_grid.jpg)
La Légèreté (The Lightness)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 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."