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Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
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La Inqietud De La Noche
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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Once Upon a Time
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 93 x 72 x 2.3 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.3 x 0.9 inch
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Invincible été (Invincible summer)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Bordeaux Vision | Abstract | Abstrait
Gina Vor
Painting - 25 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Abstract No. 5 | Abstrait No. 5
Gina Vor
Painting - 29 x 20.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.1 x 0.1 inch
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Small Sign No 31 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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Blues and Reds 9 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Melting 2 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Melting 1 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Blues and Reds 3 - Blue and Red Abstract (Abstrait Bleu et Rouge)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Blues and Reds 2 - Blue and Red Abstract (Abstrait Bleu et Rouge)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Blues and Reds - Blue and Red Abstract (Abstrait Bleu et Rouge)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Waterfall 3 - Colourful Abstract (Abstrait Coloré)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Poetic landscape - Golden, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
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Orange Diptych, Diptyque Orange
Gina Vor
Painting - 30.2 x 49 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.9 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
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Sign No. 8 - Black and White Abstract (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Sign No. 4 - Black and White Abstract (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Melting 3 - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Summer Vibes 11 - blue abstract (Abstrait Bleu et Vert)
Gina Vor
Painting - 25 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
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Abstract Landscape (Paysage Abstrait)
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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Majestic New York city, washed in sunlight Art: 100721
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
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Scandalo (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
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Elixirs (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 1.2 inch
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Subconscious fighting conscious
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 1.2 inch
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Silent gratitude for every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
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Techno contemporain de lyrisme abstrait coeur
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
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The ice is broken (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 65 x 65 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 inch
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The Avignon Maiden in Memory
Yichao Sun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
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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."