Gestural abstraction
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Winter morning 2
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,017 $1,614
Collection Bleu d'été - "Hamptons"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 30 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,070
Renouveau 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 65 x 154 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 60.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,732
Renouveau 12
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,223
Peau de mur en deuil
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 180 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,732
Renouveau 5
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,696
Renouveau 11
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,223
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,682
Trees at sunset 4 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,521
Poetic Resilience
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
$3,900
Autumnal mood-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
Imagination play-IX(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,127
Jump session(Jazzy)-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$958
White and Black 2 (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 108 x 78.5 x 2 cm Painting - 42.5 x 30.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,127
Pastel Dreams 3 - Pink Abstract (Abstrait Rose)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$901
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mars"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,070
Collection privée - "Smashed 7"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,690
Collection privée - "Smashed 6"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,197
Collection privée - "Smashed 5"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,014
Collection Bleu d'été - "Junior suite sea view - Windy"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,141
Collection privée - "Smashed 4"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$2,197
Vue depuis une fenêtre sur Bora Bora
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,014
Overwhelmingly beautiful life (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,915
Abstract R 2406
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,741 $1,218
Triptych Summer II
Caroline Vis
Painting - 160 x 270 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 106.3 x 0.8 inch
$16,338
Phenomenal Black White XXL
Caroline Vis
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,338
Abstract 22140
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22116
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,205 $844
Abstract 2273
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,008 $1,406
State of Mind
Francesco Martini
Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 3 cm Painting - 15.6 x 15.6 x 1.2 inch
$451
Jump session(Jazzy)-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,014
Jump session(Jazzy)-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,577
Autumnal mood-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,115
Jump session(Jazzy)-X
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$992
Imagination play-VI(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,070
Imagination play-IV(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,070
Amazonia
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,118
Space within space
Mahabbeh Mowakket
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,718
Abstract 2368
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,071 $750
Abstract 2366
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,071 $750
Abstract 22136
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22134
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22124
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,674 $1,172
Jump session(Jazzy)-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,352
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."