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Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,561 $1,342
Whispered Tales by the Sunlit Shore
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,074 $967
Poetic landscape - White on white
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,400
Day & Night 4 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,506
Behind the Image XI
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,720
Dispersion III
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,877
When you fall in love again
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 140 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,990
Landscape inspired by Rothko
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,990 $1,592
Celebration of colors series B #4
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,131
Celebration of colors series A #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,018
Every drop of sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,866
Canvas of Dawn (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,753
Magie colorée 3
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$509
Everything is perfect Art. 280932
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,092
Glow of summer days (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,187
Ouverture d’esprit 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$452
Early sunrise, Like a promise of...
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,108
The world is a big mirror - Art: 270132
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$1,753
In the arms of an angel
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,018
Sweet summer memorials
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$1,866
Amour de la nature
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,658
Fragments d'émotion - Royale
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,696
Fragments d'émotion - Outre mer
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,696
Fragments d'émotion - Eternel
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,696
Untitled(N° COL1122P1)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$5,428
Dans la machine
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$622
Two Black and White Dreams | Peintures en Noir et Blanc
Gina Vor
Painting - 58 x 20.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 8.1 x 0.1 inch
$170
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."