![Painting, Abstract 2221, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1617135_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Abstract 2221, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1617135_1_grid.jpg)
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Close Up Of An Angelim Vermelho
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
$4,928
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A little pink mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$776
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Las risas en mis sueños
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$4,928
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Psychedelic flowers
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$1,027
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Wild Flowers 7 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
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$2,040
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Lucioles dans le ciel nocturne
Yichao Sun
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$1,141
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Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,027
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$627
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Calm after the storm
Nikolaos Schizas
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$7,458
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Nestor Toro
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$4,000
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Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 90 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,768
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Un camino hacia el verano
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,620
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There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall painting
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,620
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Those same lilies of Claude Monet (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 65 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,426
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Collection Bleu d'été - "Fifty shades of blue"
Thomas Jeunet
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$2,167
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$6,559
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Paesaggio poetico XXIV
Daniela Pasqualini
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$600
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If You Want To Be Happy, Be!
Nikolaos Schizas
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$6,992
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Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
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$6,925
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Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
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$616
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My dreamy world
Nikolaos Schizas
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$5,860
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$4,517
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$1,500
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Access Memories
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$3,529
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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."