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An autumn composition
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$264
Contemporary twenties - IV
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$483
Butterfly n°1240 - Résurection
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,953
Sunday Feeling on a Thursday: Inner Garden
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$517
Sunday Feeling on a Thursday: Inner Garden
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$448
Kreuzberg Blues No. 5
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$402
Kreuzberg monochrome
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$402
Berlin Winter Abstraction No. 3
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$218
Port | Peinture Abstraite
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 81 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,778
Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue III"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$804
Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue II"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$804
Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue I"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$804
Recycled
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$276
Diversity III
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$172
Every Shade of You - Smeraldo
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$8,400
Modern J. Pollock style
Max Yaskin
Painting - 150 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$793
J. Pollock acrylic on canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 92 x 149 x 1 cm Painting - 36.2 x 58.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,023
Vintage J. Pollock style
Max Yaskin
Painting - 85 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$862
Abstract action painting on canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 150 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$896
Dancing in Hues
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,100
Hidden Light - Pantone Peach Fuzz
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$2,600
Evolving Language - Composition of 6 paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1 inch
$2,400
Dreamscape - Zenobia
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,800
Visual Poetry
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,500
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL15D
Marcel Speet
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,234
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL141
Marcel Speet
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$448
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL71P
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$460
Far & Deep
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$460
Jump session(Jazzy)-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,379
State of Mind
Francesco Martini
Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 3 cm Painting - 15.6 x 15.6 x 1.2 inch
$460
Couleurs en friches
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 73 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,436
Résonances sous le Feuillage
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$919
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$517
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$517
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$517
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$517
Les vagues, nous emporterons
Giovanni. D
Painting - 29 x 29 x 5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 inch
$460
Assis sur la lumière
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,379
Raison d'avoir tort
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,723
L'éphémère écarlate
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,149
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."