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Blues and Reds 7 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$171
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL141
Marcel Speet
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$443
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL71P
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$455
The Vanishing Gertrude Stein
Yichao Sun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,274
Lucioles dans le ciel nocturne
Yichao Sun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Violet Diptych, Diptyque Violet
Gina Vor
Painting - 30.2 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.9 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$227
Mountain and Valley VII (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 70 x 50 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,869
The leaves of the trees were spinning to the notes of the autumn waltz
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
$1,876
Super special offer - 30% - Magnetic sunrise
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$1,751
Previous collections - Impossible is possible
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,268
Jazmin del cielo
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,865
A kakofonie of kaketoes
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,489
Cantor's Numbers #877
Jean-Claude Bossel
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$64,032
Douce Mélancholie(Sweet Melancholy)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$557
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
$443
Collection Papillon n°1261
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,591
Vermillon céruléen 2
Blandine Insler
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$898
Last second of a down
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Golden view, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$5,800
Hidden Light - Viva Magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
$3,400
Starry Blue Night
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,400
Supernova 4 | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$171
Saved By The Black | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$341
Small Red Sign No 6 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$114
Small Red Sign No 5 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$114
Small Red Sign No 4 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$114
Small Red Sign No 3 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$114
Small Red Sign No 2 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$114
Small Red Sign No 1 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$114
White Line 3 - Minimalist Abstract | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$171
Fly Me To The Moon - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$171
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."