Gestural abstraction
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Merci vert et blue
Darlene Watson
Painting - 152.4 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 inch
$6,078
Le pin dans la forêt
Darlene Watson
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$6,078
Eventide Echoes, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Darlene Watson
Painting - 223.5 x 203.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 88 x 80 x 2 inch
$9,717
Libra love forever, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Darlene Watson
Painting - 170.2 x 203.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 67 x 80 x 1.5 inch
$6,077
Expression 10 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,975
Abstract Statement #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,432
Grace Under Pressure (Hemingway)
Volker Mayr
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,593
Celebration Of Colors
Volker Mayr
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,928
Face The Future And Act Now
Volker Mayr
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,593
Expression 8 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 190 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 74.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,918
Abstract acrylic painting
Max Yaskin
Painting - 90 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,354
Abstract J. Pollock style acrylic
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,523
Fast Burning
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$169
Joyful Delivery
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$169
Sad dance or light through the rain
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$169
Being animal
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 32 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$214
Diversity II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.15 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$282
Passage d'Energie
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$124
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #3
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,708
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,821
Fury Future
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$451
Athena of Liberty
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$508
Puissance de la Terre
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$124
Le Visage du Viol
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$124
Résolution des Matières
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$124
La Jungle de la Folie
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
La Génuflexion Eternelle
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$338
L'Entité des Eloges
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$124
L'Action de l'Esprit
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
$124
Erection Lumineuse
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$124
Eloges Elogieuses
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$124
Eclat Dans le Voyage
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
La Glisse Transmetrice
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
Energie Universelle
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
Arrivée du Présent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 46 x 61 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$124
Scandal. Collection « Mirror, Mirror »
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 88 x 68 x 3.5 cm Painting - 34.6 x 26.8 x 1.4 inch
$5,641
L’arbre éternel
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 81 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,911
White is golden is golden is white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,359
There’s a place in my heart
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,359
The essence of life on mars
Filip Pavlik
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,385
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."