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![Painting, Rien dans la tête, Cosmos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2222299_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Dawn dream (stretched), Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143524_1_grid.jpg)
Dawn dream (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,816
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Earthbound Serenity (1)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$3,121
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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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Giving Voice to It
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$5,050
![Painting, Slipping Away, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186328_1_grid.jpg)
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Redhead with Highlights
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$3,350
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Spontaneous Combustion
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$4,400
![Painting, Rock & Roller, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186303_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Riding a Pale Horse, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186302_1_grid.jpg)
Riding a Pale Horse
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$5,050
![Painting, Rock Solid, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186301_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Crossing Over, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186300_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Artifacts Triptych, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186295_1_grid.jpg)
Artifacts Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Lost Cause Triptych, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186294_1_grid.jpg)
Lost Cause Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 142.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 56 x 1.5 inch
$5,050
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Retour d Inde
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,359
![Painting, Renouveau 18, Pascale Morelot-Palu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2221158_1_grid.jpg)
Renouveau 18
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,338
![Painting, Renouveau 20, Pascale Morelot-Palu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2221157_1_grid.jpg)
Renouveau 20
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,246
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In Search of Serenity
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 280 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 110.2 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,185
![Painting, New opportunities, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2228753_1_grid.jpg)
New opportunities
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 190 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 74.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,029
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![Painting, Now’s the time (stretched) (1), Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198382_1_grid.jpg)
Now’s the time (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$2,100
![Painting, Symbol of rebirth and strength (stretched), Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197917_1_grid.jpg)
Symbol of rebirth and strength (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,702
![Painting, Never a Dull Moment, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186337_1_grid.jpg)
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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![Painting, Outside the box, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198844_1_grid.jpg)
Outside the box
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$5,164
![Painting, Claude Monet's Water lilies, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198236_1_grid.jpg)
Claude Monet's Water lilies
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$5,050
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Krabi 2 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 200 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,305 $1,044
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Paysage onirique 224
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 61 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$1,816
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Dream without limits
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$5,164
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Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,715
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Embracing the sunset
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,554
![Painting, Explore. Dream. Discover, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211398_1_grid.jpg)
Explore. Dream. Discover
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$4,369
![Painting, Light inside you (stretched), Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209841_1_grid.jpg)
Light inside you (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$2,951
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."