Gestural abstraction
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Everything is perfect Art. 280932
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,069
Glow of summer days (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,174
Color falls gently
Christian Valentine
Painting - 91.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 12 x 2 inch
$700
Makes things better
Christian Valentine
Painting - 30.5 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 36 x 2 inch
$600
Changing destinies
Christian Valentine
Painting - 101.6 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 16 x 2 inch
$800
Time begins again
Christian Valentine
Painting - 50.8 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 1 inch
$520
Life is change, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christian Valentine
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 inch
$700
Sweet summer memorials
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$1,845
Strange Mood
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,578
Fragments d'émotion - Royale
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,677
Fragments d'émotion - Outre mer
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,677
Fragments d'émotion - Eternel
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,677
Behind the Image XI
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,720
Ouverture d’esprit 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$447
En toute liberté
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$436
Composition 16 - We Are Star Dust
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,013
I Leave My Days Like Autumn Forest Leaves
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Two Black and White Dreams | Peintures en Noir et Blanc
Gina Vor
Painting - 58 x 20.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 8.1 x 0.1 inch
$168
Kafkian eternity with flowers at 7 pm
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
About Divinity Creation Divine Dark Beauty Darkscape
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,398
Enigma of Creation Greyscape Divine Silence
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,398
New Collection! Golden Thoughts
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,591
New Collection Treasure
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,591
Gestural enigmatic still life abstract pot with flowers Kloska
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Very large size abstract enigmatic painting
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 130 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,236
Amour de la nature
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 102 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,628
The wonderful morning dreams of Alice - Composition 68.
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
A way to infinity 15
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 90 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,677
Untitled(N° COL1122P1)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$5,368
Magic tree II
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,297
Magic tree I
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,297
The sun behind the poplars. Poplars by Claude Monet
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 115 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 45.3 x 0 inch
$6,486
Joie du Coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,780
Love 1
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,003
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."