Gestural abstraction
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Still Alive, Champagne For All
Volker Mayr
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,078
New York city lights 4 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,859 $1,487
Moonlight (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,507
Sueños (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,507
Into the consciousness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,944
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,732
Suspends Ton Vol #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,366
Swimming in silence (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,696
Cosmic religion (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,042
Facing summer (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,718
Happiness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 115 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,944
For Ever, Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 240 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 94.5 x 0 inch
$5,691
Promises (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
$5,892
In The Middle Of Nowhere
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 230 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 90.6 x 0 inch
$14,729
Who's Talking To The Water?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 inch
$5,892
Aires tropicales
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 190 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 74.8 x 0 inch
$12,319
When I look into your eyes
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,892
En La Madrugada
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$7,632
Mountain and Valley VII (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Greet Helsen
Painting - 70 x 50 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,875
Vision 7
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$169
Abstract 2386
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 2385
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract2384
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 2382
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 2380
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 2379
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 2378
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 2374
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 2367
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,071 $750
Abstract 2363
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,008 $1,406
Abstract S2303
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$870 $609
Abstract S2302
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$870 $609
Abstract 2338
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,339 $937
Abstract 2335
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,339 $937
Abstract 2334
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,339 $937
Abstract 2310
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,008 $1,406
Abstract 2301
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,008 $1,406
Abstract 22165
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,205 $844
Abstract 22163
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22148
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,071 $750
Abstract 22141
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22135
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22133
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22131
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22130
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22122
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,205 $844
Abstract 22119
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,607 $1,125
Abstract 22118
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,142 $1,500
Abstract 22117
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,205 $844
Abstract 22114
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$2,008 $1,406
Abstract 22109
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,205 $844
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."