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Vibrant sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,527
Previous collections - Awareness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$746
Pollen of happiness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$1,753
Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$385
Lemon and Strawberry
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,244
I want it for myself
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 140 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,149
Dreamscape Gold & White - Two tone paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$5,800
Le sens de l'espace
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$1,103
Playful - Disjointed reality #11
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,979
Small Sign No 14 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$113
Small Sign No 12 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$113
Sign No. 16 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$226
Sign No. 15 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$226
Sign No. 14 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$226
Follow the Line 6 - Linear Abstract (Abstrait Linéaire)
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$339
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
$170
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
$283
Happy - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$170
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
$170
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
$170
Waterfall 1 - Colourful Abstract on Paper (Abstrait Coloré sur Papier)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$170
Where are you? 1 - Abstract on Paper (Abstrait sur Papier)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$170
Good Night 3 - Black and White Abstract (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$170
Round & Round XII
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,640
Round & Round III
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
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
$792
Untitled(N° COL1122P3)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,171
Haze over the sea
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$2,827
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."