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Haze over the sea
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$2,803
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Silence to hear
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Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$2,522
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Pearce Me - Series#15
Kris Haas
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.5 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.6 inch
$1,015
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Not Beneath - Series #16
Kris Haas
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$1,015
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The light of the night
Eric Robin
Painting - 130 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$10,987
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Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$336
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Waterfall 2 - Colourful Abstract on Paper (Abstrait Coloré sur Papier)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
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3 in 1 - Abstract Triptych (Triptyque Abstrait)
Gina Vor
Painting - 96 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$280
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Happy - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
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Melting 5 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
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Melting 4 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
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Round & Round XII
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,626
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Round & Round III
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,626
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Dreamscape Gold & White - Two tone paintings
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Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
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A la recherche de couleurs 4
Yichao Sun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$785
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Dancing out the door
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.2 inch
$1,700
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Untitled(N° COL1122P3)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,153
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Split panorama 4 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
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Split panorama 5 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
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Red valley (Heat wave)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
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Hazel Sky (Glowing grass)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
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Fogy New York city
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$1,726
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Ovidiu Kloska
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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."