Gestural abstraction
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Abstraction concrète 155
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,075
Abstract 2433
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,738 $1,917
Circle of the universe
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,510
Série vibration du coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 249 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 98 x 1.2 inch
$4,842
Evening with Mia
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,882
Composition n°2030 C121
Jean-Jacques Marie
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,960
Floating over pink #2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
Balancing Act 2
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 50.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20 inch
$1,780
The Skies At Maruyama Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,381
Evolution of color
Christian Valentine
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,050
Untitled, white
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$115
Burnout
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$346
Enchanted Glade
Gaëlle Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,536
The daemon of the valley does not die
Peggy Bell
Painting - 76 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,355
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 150 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
$1,384
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,306
Gestures
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$692
Abstract n° 1146
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,767
Chute libre 6
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 39.5 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 15.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,306
Nude in Red (Nue Edition)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,153
Collection Bleu d'été - "Fifty shades of blue"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 130 x 89 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$2,191
Square and no limit
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,649
Without identity
Maurizio Gracceva
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 72 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 28.3 x 0 inch
$1,729
Into the Flow II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,075
Western
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 81 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$980
Higher
Sandra Szaja
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,153
Multiple de Fond et de Matière
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
$127
Movement | Bronze Sculpture
Aloyzas Smilingis
Sculpture - 33 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 13 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
$9,800
Dans la machine
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$634
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."