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Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Tucan II, Ilja Freer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1552329_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The origin of the earth, Ilja Freer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1552326_1_grid.jpg)
The origin of the earth
Ilja Freer
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,849
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Study for Adagio Presto
Geo Hizny
Painting - 71.12 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$5,524
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Split Cell XV (Winter Solstice)
Peggy Bell
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,582
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Split Cell - Concentric Lines I
Peggy Bell
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,367
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Irradiations n°1
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$558
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Promesse du Jour
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$523
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A symphony of golden, red, and black in circles and ovals
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,757
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Explosion de joie
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2.2 inch
$989
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Branché vers Ailleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,628
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Io Volo
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.4 inch
$3,489
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Five Summer Stories
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 165 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 65 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,536
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Dancing
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$174
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Racing Formula Twenty Three
Cosmos
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$7,211
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Los Jardines Del Prado
Cosmos
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$13,840
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Poetic landscape - White on white
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,400 $1,050
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Voyage en couleur
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,419
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Visual Poetry X
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
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Last of the Species,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 269.2 x 139.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 106 x 55 x 0.1 inch
$19,750
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Siesta ( bajo la sombra del bambú )
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,324
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Adelfas blancas de perséfone para hades
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,598
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No entres docilmente en esa buena noche
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,324
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Celebration of colors series B #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,047
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Celebration Of Colors Series A #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,047
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In the heat of the night #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$1,047
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Still Life With Palette (Peinture Semi-abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 116 x 81 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
$6,280
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Evening Violet (Grand Tableau)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
$7,211
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Garden in blue mood
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 228.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 90 x 0.7 inch
$16,520
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New York City Second Avenue
Cosmos
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$9,071
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Vers la lumière
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$582
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The Girl in My Dreams
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$4,150
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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."