Gestural abstraction
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The Orchestral Overture
Anatole Krasnyansky
Fine Art Drawings - 62.2 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 19.5 inch
$7,500
Le passeur et l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$563
White tree (White tree bolossom is like love)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$1,070
Always choose Delight
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$992
Yellow-blue sunrise (Happy morning time)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,873
My tomorrow depends on me (light peach sunrise sea)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 235 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 92.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,465
Victoria Horkan
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,553
Orange sky clouds (Magnetic sunrise)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$2,366
I dream and believe (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,690
Un camino hacia el verano
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,563
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall painting
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,563
Always choose enjoyment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$992
Always choose Pleasure
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$992
El Movimiento
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 190 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 74.8 x 0 inch
$10,377
Access Memories
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$3,548
Whispers at the Edge of Daybreak (Seaguls and red sunset)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 140 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,366
Like a new start
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 105 x 200 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 78.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,535
Immerse ourselves in the present moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 105 x 200 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 78.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,535
Universe melodies
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$4,732
Step by step like wave by wave
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 135 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,006
Catch the fair wind
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,972
Floating on A Postbox High - Venice
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,293
Life comes at us in waves
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 125 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,972
Wonderful fairy tale
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,006
Persona YB2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,008
Persona YB2401
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,008
The sea lives in every one of us
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 144 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 56.7 x 0.1 inch
$969
The serenity of a sunrise
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 170 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,873
Garden of my soul
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 170 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,366
Let my soul smile
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,634
It’s like life itself
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 90 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,239
It's like love Horizontal
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 120 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,408
It's like love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,239
The mountains are calling, and I must go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 85 x 145 x 0.3 cm Painting - 33.5 x 57.1 x 0.1 inch
$2,085
Cattleya orchid
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,673
La vida es un sorteo (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,620
Vuelvo Al Mar
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 180 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$10,444
Don't try. Do!
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,028
You know exactly where to go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,085
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."