Gestural abstraction
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Shades of beauty (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,072
Earthbound Serenity (1)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$3,103
In Search of Serenity
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 280 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 110.2 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,149
Embracing the sunset
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,539
No rules (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,106
Explore, dream, discover! (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,106
The dreams we make come true (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,106
Right now (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,031
The fragility of beauty (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$846
What are you thinking about? (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 140 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,087
A Big Dream (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$2,087
Lake decoration (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,072
Lotuses (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,692
Abstract 2431
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,403 $1,682
Abstract 2421
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,536 $1,775
Dawn dream (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,805
Caribbean energy (Summer flare)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Now’s the time (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$2,087
Symbol of rebirth and strength (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,692
Abstract 2419
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,536 $1,775
Abstract 2418
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,536 $1,775
Abstract R 2416
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 160 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 63 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$2,669 $1,869
A Gathering of Innocents
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
$1,350
A Theroy of Evolution
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$2,050
Claude Monet's Water lilies
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$5,021
Modern spectra and lights (With Teal)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,230
Evergreen Garden (Silver lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$1,300
Like nothing else (Experimental garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$1,300
Forest and light trails
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 66 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35 x 26 x 0.7 inch
$2,000
Natures imagery (scattering colors) 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.5 inch
$1,970
Waterflow (Night Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,020
Frozen Waterflow (Ice ponds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,020
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 32
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,020
Orange lights and shadows
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Crystalline dawn panorama
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$2,030
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."