Gestural abstraction
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Pulse of human civilisation
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 190 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 74.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,113 $3,619
Blue heart of the planet
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 105 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 41.3 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,817
No rules (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,104
Explore, dream, discover! (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,104
The dreams we make come true (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,104 $972
Right now (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,028
Dawn dream (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,803
Abstract R 2420
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 160 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 63 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$2,678 $1,875
Abstract 2430
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,678 $1,875
Abstract 2428
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,678 $1,875
Abstract 2423
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,678 $1,875
Abstract R 2418
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$2,410 $1,687
Marine melodies
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 30 x 1 inch
$4,800 $3,840
In search of silence
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 295 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 116.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$4,338
Abstract 2429
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,678 $1,875
Positive Thoughts
Francesco Martini
Painting - 140 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,254
Abstract 2422
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,678 $1,875
Dim as dusk and sunshine bright
Peggy Bell
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,763
New opportunities
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 190 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 74.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
In Search of Serenity
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 280 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 110.2 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,141
The Storm Participant
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,285 $3,642
Paysage onirique 224
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 61 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$1,803
Retour d Inde
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,335
Renouveau 18
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,321
Renouveau 20
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,223
Ceci est une confusion
Yichao Sun
Painting - 100 x 125 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,859
Doors of new opportunities
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 130 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,746
Light inside you (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$2,930
Green spring with notes of flowering (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$501 $452
Earthbound Serenity (1)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$3,099
Split Cell XV (Winter Solstice)
Peggy Bell
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,532
Split Cell - Concentric Lines I
Peggy Bell
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,324
White blossom on green (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$501
Racing Formula Twenty Three
Cosmos
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$6,986
Los Jardines Del Prado
Cosmos
Painting - 140 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$13,408
Renouveau 13
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,673
Renouveau 9
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 163 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 64.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,408
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."