Gestural abstraction
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Risorgere dalle ceneri
Gaëlle Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,440
Opposites attract
Eliana Sá
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,192 $1,072
L'oeil du cyclone
Damien Berrard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$1,021
Autumn under the rain
Damien Berrard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.7 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$908
Close Up Of An Angelim Vermelho
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
$4,998
Las risas en mis sueños
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$4,998
Overwhelmingly beautiful life
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,248
Anything you lose comes round in a different form
Tracey Adams
Painting - 122 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0 inch
$9,185
Dream Night II (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,724
Big heart (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,767
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,767
Xxl large scale painting space dreamy fantasy fascinating masterpiece
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,270
For Ever, Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 240 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 94.5 x 0 inch
$5,741
If You Want To Be Happy, Be!
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,091
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,024
There Will Come A Day
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,943
When the sun goes down
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,943
Calm after the storm
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,564
La légèreté III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 150 x 110 x 2.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.9 inch
$1,589
Do You Hear It?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$5,133
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."