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Mountain and Valley VII (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 70 x 50 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,856
Jazmin del cielo
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,812
The leaves of the trees were spinning to the notes of the autumn waltz
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
$1,850
Previous collections - Impossible is possible
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,237
Miroir aux alouettes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$605
Collection Papillon n°1261
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
Collection Couleurs d'automne - "On the move 1"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,682
Collection privée - "Explosion"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,018
Berlin Winter Abstraction No. 2
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$291
Last second of a down
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,121
Supernova 5 | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$168
Supernova 4 | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$168
Saved By The Black | Abstrait | Abstract
Gina Vor
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$336
Small Red Sign No 6 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$112
Small Red Sign No 5 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$112
Small Red Sign No 4 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$112
Small Red Sign No 3 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$112
Small Red Sign No 2 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$112
Small Red Sign No 1 | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$112
White Line 3 - Minimalist Abstract | Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$168
Fly Me To The Moon - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
Happy - Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste)
Gina Vor
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$168
Summer still life
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 39 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.4 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,009
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."