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![Painting, Pure joy, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551786_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The moment of miracle happening, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551777_1_grid.jpg)
The moment of miracle happening
Sophie Qin
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,545
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Multidimensional perspective of life
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,110
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Dancing
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
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Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,803
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Drizzles symphony 8
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
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A forest song (Faces of green) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
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Red valley (Heat wave) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
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A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
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A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
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Moonlight Spectra 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 162.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 64 x 0.7 inch
$2,860
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Under the Aurora (In between frequencies) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
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Intricate Dreams 2 (Above Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$3,050
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Strange spectra 8 (iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$5,050
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Strange spectra 7 (Over bright red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$5,050
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Merging garden (Color intrusion)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$3,640
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A patch over the atlantic
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$4,040
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Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
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Distorted forest projection
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,680
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Flickering garden 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,685
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Sparks (over iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,685
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Understanding pink (Spin)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$3,430
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Like a sunday morning
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
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Flickering garden 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.7 inch
$3,600
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Puzzled Imagery (Red reflections)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,170
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Distorted pond (Iridescent garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,170
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Fiery reflections (Flourishing garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,200
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Interference reflections (Ice)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,200
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Catching memories (Reflections of Summer)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
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Depths of radiance 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
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Reflections of Autumn
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
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Flickering Garden 5 (yellow), 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
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Colors of happiness
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Painting - 140 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,278
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Brief moment of light
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$10,650
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$1,121
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$450
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Improvisation-LI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50.8 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$400
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Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$604
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Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$605
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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."