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Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, White cloud, H-Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137615_1_grid.jpg)
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The sea remembers (Bi?n nh?)
H-Nguyen
Painting - 75 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,628
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The essence of life on mars
Filip Pavlik
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,024
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White is golden is golden is white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,524
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There’s a place in my heart
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,524
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Time begins again
Christian Valentine
Painting - 50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 1 inch
$520
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Txori gorri
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,908
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Erretegia
Michel Castanet (Mica)
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,489
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Happiness is indigenous
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 29.5 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$115
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Imagination play-IX(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,163
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Jump session(Jazzy)-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$989
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Sunset melody by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,570
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Hidden light - Green and purple
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,000 $1,500
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Just rainy-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,919
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Heart(black and white)-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,326
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Heart(black and white)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,326
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Heart(black and white)-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,326
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Just rainy XXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,023
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Visual Poetry II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,200
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Disparition dans le Vide
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$128
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mars"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,105
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Collection privée - "Smashed 7"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,396
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Collection privée - "Smashed 5"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,163
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Collection privée - "Smashed 4"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,861
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Sailing"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$930
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Finger prints"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$930
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Contemporary twenties - VI
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$523
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Contemporary twenties - V
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$523
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The wonderful morning dreams of Alice - Composition 58
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$3,489
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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."