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Visual Dance II - Black & White - Framed - Ready to hang
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
$400
Tour d'horizon
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$385
Abstract 2387
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,129 $1,490
Abstract 2382
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract 2380
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,129 $1,490
Abstract 2338
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,331 $931
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
The light of the night
Eric Robin
Painting - 130 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$11,090
Haze over the sea
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$2,829
Playful - Disjointed reality #11
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,980
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
Round & Round XII
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,641
Round & Round III
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,641
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
$2,173
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."