Gestural abstraction
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Abstract landscape-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 32 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$158
Abstract landscape-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 32 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$169
Presentiment-XIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$225
Presentiment-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$192
Presentiment-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$225
Plunging into our dreams
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 120 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,275
Time series: no time limits
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,875
At the edge of the water
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,325
Tender Deep Vibes - Tender sea
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 140 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,990
Large scale - Ocean
Eliana Sá
Painting - 105.5 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 41.5 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,197
The dark and light
Juliana Haggoo
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,366
Sunset Silhouettes
Juliana Haggoo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,817
L'homme animal
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$834
Rêveries sur les rivages du temps
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$721
Lonely trees-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$237
Abstract landscape-XXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$237
Il y a toujours l'œil
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,380
La pousseuse d'horizon
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$428
White heart on a white square-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 53 x 78 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 30.7 x 0 inch
$327
Bright Love - White - White Frame
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500
Histoires urbaines 29
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 inch
$563
Histoire urbaines 28
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 inch
$563
Le rêve du poisson
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$563
Le rêve du corps beau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$563
Pas dit mon dernier mot !
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$789
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."