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Celebration of colors series A #4
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,039
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Risorgere dalle ceneri
Gaëlle Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,482
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Reflections of Europe, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
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Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 90 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,789
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Un camino hacia el verano
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,675
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There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall painting
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,675
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Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$623
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Entre l'ombre et la lumière
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,571
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If You Want To Be Happy, Be!
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,101
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Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,034
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My dreamy world
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,952
![Painting, Exploring minimalism and vibrant contrast in brown, grey, and white, Tiny de Bruin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2084745_1_grid.jpg)
Exploring minimalism and vibrant contrast in brown, grey, and white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,637
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Calm after the storm
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,575
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Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 71.1 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 40 x 1 inch
$1,500
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Abstract 1239
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,894 $1,326
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Access Memories
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$3,584
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Do You Hear It?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$5,140
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Dancing under the sun
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 116 x 89 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0 inch
$4,261
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How things really are
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$4,869
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Do you remember?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,343
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A different sunset
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$3,382
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Lucioles dans le ciel nocturne
Yichao Sun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,154
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Collection Hiver éternel - "Paint in black - Lights in the nineties"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,616
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Collection Hiver éternel - "Paint in black - Lights in the sixties"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,097
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Paesaggio poetico XXIV
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$600
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Miroir aux alouettes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$623
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Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$3,925
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Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,232
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The power of now
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,694
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Persona YB2306
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,623
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Black and White 3 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,616
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Line 6
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 19.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 7.7 x 0.1 inch
$115
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Still Alive, Champagne For All
Volker Mayr
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,154
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New York city lights 4 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,905
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Moonlight (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,617
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Sueños (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,617
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Collection Rêveries d'automne - "On the move 1"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,385
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."