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Large scale - Ocean
Eliana Sá
Painting - 105.5 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 41.5 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,217
The magic of a sunny day
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,762
Wild Flowers 7 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$2,040
Previous collections - Calmness Landscape
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 160 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 63 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,023
Lonely trees-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$239
Abstract landscape-XXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$239
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$6,941
There Will Come A Day
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,873
When the sun goes down
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,873
My dreamy world
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,873
Calm after the storm
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,475
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
$1,023
Paesaggio poetico XXIV
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$600
Do You Hear It?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$5,072
Dancing under the sun
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 116 x 89 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0 inch
$4,205
How things really are
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$4,805
Do you remember?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,273
A different sunset
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$3,337
Entre l'ombre et la lumière
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,502
Cycle confiance 2023-07
Blandine Insler
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,591
Cycle confiance 2023-19
Blandine Insler
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$1,819
Cycle confiance 2023-06
Blandine Insler
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
$1,819
Cycle confiance 2023-10
Blandine Insler
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,819
Cycle confiance 2023-13
Blandine Insler
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,819
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
$6,536
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
Boat-people au soleil couchant
Damien Berrard
Painting - 33 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$171
Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$3,865
Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,183
The power of now
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,638
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini III
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$226
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini II
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$226
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini I
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$226
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$614
Into the consciousness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,979
Te quiero, te quiero
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,126
Lemon and Strawberry
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,250
Swimming in silence (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,729
Cosmic religion (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,069
Facing summer (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,751
Happiness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 115 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,979
I want it for myself
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 140 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,160
Le sens de l'espace
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$1,108
Abstract 2109
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,229 $1,560
Abstract 1269
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 160 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,206 $3,644
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."