Gestural abstraction
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Vibrant sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,509
Golden view, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$5,800
Fogy New York city
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$1,722
Just a sublime way to paint a tree
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$894
Abstract 2386
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2385
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract2384
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2382
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2380
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 2379
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2378
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2374
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2367
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,057 $740
Abstract 2363
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,982 $1,388
Abstract S2303
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$859 $601
Kreuzberg Blues No. 2
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$906
Abstract S2302
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$859 $601
Abstract 2338
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,321 $925
Abstract 2335
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,321 $925
Abstract 2334
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,321 $925
Abstract 2310
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,982 $1,388
Abstract 2301
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,982 $1,388
Abstract 22165
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22163
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22148
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,057 $740
Abstract 22141
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22135
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22133
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22131
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22130
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22122
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22119
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 22118
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,114 $1,480
Abstract 22117
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22114
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$1,982 $1,388
Abstract 22109
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22108
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22112
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22111
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 22107
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,189 $833
Abstract 2283
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,586 $1,110
Abstract 2275
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,982 $1,388
Abstract 2272
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,982 $1,388
Abstract 2265
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$621 $435
Abstract 2263
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$621 $435
Entre deux mondes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 4.7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
$212
Linear Momentum
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 91.5 x 91.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 36 inch
$5,946
Manga French
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 20 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,196
Coral's composition
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,229
Sunday feeling on a Wednesday (III)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$391
Summertime at Cawthorne Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,757
SUNDAY FEELING ON A TUESDAY - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$436
Rainbows and Halo's
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,757
Els arbres ploren II
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$503
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."