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![Painting, Idyll, Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/169639_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Unbekanntes Ufer, Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/16614_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A fragile balance (Abstract Expressionism Painting), Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1056228_1_grid.jpg)
A fragile balance (Abstract Expressionism Painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 50 x 150 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 inch
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![Painting, Morning Light (Abstract Expressionism painting), Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1054740_1_grid.jpg)
Morning Light (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 110 x 140 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.1 inch
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![Painting, Verspielte See (Abstract Expressionism painting), Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1054734_1_grid.jpg)
Verspielte See (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 80 x 150 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 inch
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![Painting, Sail (Abstract Expressionism painting), Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1054731_1_grid.jpg)
Sail (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 80 x 150 cm Painting - 31.5 x 59.1 inch
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![Painting, Mountain and Valley V (Abstract Expressionism painting), Greet Helsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1054707_1_grid.jpg)
Mountain and Valley V (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 60 x 100 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 inch
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The sun behind the poplars. Poplars by Claude Monet
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 51.2 x 0 inch
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Emergence - Pure Golden
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
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Bathing at Night
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Autumn Leaves - Orange Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
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![Painting, Inner dynamics, Sophie Mangelsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2131753_1_grid.jpg)
Inner dynamics
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 130 x 110 x 2.2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 0.9 inch
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![Painting, Unknown Series - Oblivi, I See You & Timeless, Kris Haas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1770684_1_grid.jpg)
Unknown Series - Oblivi, I See You & Timeless
Kris Haas
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Expression, Christelle Ferron (Nasca)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732860_1_grid.jpg)
Expression
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
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![Painting, Amour,Paix, Christelle Ferron (Nasca)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732848_1_grid.jpg)
Amour,Paix
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 146 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 57.5 x 35 x 1.6 inch
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Rêve sublime (Sublime Dream)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Small Blue Sign No 6 | Abstrait Minimaliste, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/748311_1_grid.jpg)
Small Blue Sign No 6 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Sign No. 26 (Abstrait Noir et Blanc), Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/654567_1_grid.jpg)
Sign No. 26 (Abstrait Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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![Print, Old Park (Impression Abstraite), Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/560503_1_grid.jpg)
Old Park (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Variation - Abstract Print (Edition Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Evening - Abstract Print (Edition Abstraite), Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/539836_1_grid.jpg)
Evening - Abstract Print (Edition Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Finale No. 9, Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/510380_1_grid.jpg)
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Horizon - Black and White Landscape
Gina Vor
Painting - 15 x 18 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Green Etude (Impression Abstraite), Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/359617_1_grid.jpg)
Green Etude (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Print - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Silent City (Impression Abstraite), Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/359590_1_grid.jpg)
Silent City (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Print - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Untitled (L'Art numérique), Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/359551_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (L'Art numérique)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Print - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Twilight (Impression Abstraite), Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/359521_1_grid.jpg)
Twilight (Impression Abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Print - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Abstract 2409, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177924_1_grid.jpg)
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Festive lights of the forest
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 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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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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![Painting, Every drop of sunrise (stretched), Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162146_1_grid.jpg)
Every drop of sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Senses like the sea, Nadine Antoniuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145770_1_grid.jpg)
Senses like the sea
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
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The ocean is calling and I must go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
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Everything is perfect Art. 270932
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
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Inspired by Rotko, blue and yellow
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
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Summer joyful mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
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Feelings overwhelm
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.6 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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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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Pour le plaisir, 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, A toute volée, Rita Vandenherrewegen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1610475_1_grid.jpg)
A toute volée
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 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."