Gestural abstraction
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Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
Métamorphose de Giacometti
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$231
Création A201
Jean-Jacques Marie
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,151
Création A202
Jean-Jacques Marie
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,151
Abstract J. Pollock style painting by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$1,785
Magie Disney en Couleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,882
Intuitive absraction-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 21 x 21 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$127
Nocturne-CXC (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$127
Landscaping-CLXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$138
Nocturne-CXCVII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$150
Nocturne-CLXII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$138
Promeneur du jour V
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$576
Abstract 2417
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract 2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,054 $1,438
Abstract R 2303
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,780 $1,246
Abstract R 2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,780 $1,246
Abstract 2398
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract 2397
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract R 2312
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$1,917 $1,342
Abstract R 2311
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$1,917 $1,342
Abstract R 2309
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$1,917 $1,342
Abstract 2395
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract R 2303
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,054 $1,438
Abstract R 2301
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.01 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,054 $1,438
Abstract 2262
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,054 $1,438
Abstract 2239
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,643 $1,150
Abstract 2237
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,232 $863
Abstract 2221
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract 2220
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,917 $1,342
Abstract 2219
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,917 $1,342
Abstract 2210
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract 2209
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Abstract 21117
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,191 $1,534
Floating on A Postbox High - Venice
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,435
Close Up Of An Angelim Vermelho
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
$5,066
Interactions VI
Paulo Gnecco
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,800 $1,620
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."