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![Painting, Arc en Ciel, Yichao Sun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1019322_1_grid.jpg)
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Parchemin de Vie
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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La Marche du Temps
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Approfondissement du Temps
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
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Répercussions Moléculaires
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 61 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0 inch
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Brumification, Absorbtion
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
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Shadows in a Square
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 135 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
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Jazz in monochrome
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
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Lyrisme abstrait coeur
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
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Autumn Morning Berlin
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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I want to go to this party
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
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Evening Glow - Framed
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1 inch
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An die Hoffnung / To Hope
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Celebration of colors series B #1
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
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In the heat of the night #1
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
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Fugue (Abstrait Coloré)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 80 x 116 x 0.3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 45.7 x 0.1 inch
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Transformation XXL New Collection!
Caroline Vis
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
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Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
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Berlin winter abstraction no. 4
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
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CONTEMPORARY BABY
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Darlene Watson
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
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Marilyn Monroe, Make Love Not War #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 67 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.4 x 21.9 x 0 inch
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Abstract Composition
Emilio Vedova
Painting - 25.5 x 19.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10 x 7.6 x 0 inch
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Tranche de Mystère
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 114 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
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Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
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A la recherche de couleurs 6
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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A la recherche de couleurs 5
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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A la recherche de couleurs III
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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A la recherche de couleurs I
Yichao Sun
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
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Trace Convertible
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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Liberté Moléculaire
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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Elongations Atmospheriques
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 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."