Gestural abstraction
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Protect the Children
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,038
Abstract landscape-XXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$300
Illuminations-VIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$300
Landscaping on jazz-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$184
Landscaping on jazz-LXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 32 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$225
Landscaping on jazz-LXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$277
couleurs en lumière
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,015
Perspectives enchevêtrées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,729
Le train train des Etats Unis en 40
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Photography - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$922
Les sous bois chuchotés
Muriel Deumie
Print - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,556
La nature me raconte
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,326
La ruée vers l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,026
La cabane tchanquée
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 30 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,038
Des petits trous
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 58 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,729
Street art in the school
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 73 x 92.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.4 x 1 inch
$1,153
Fish and snail
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$346
Rectangles de couleurs
Damien Berrard
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$576
Nocturne-XXXII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$121
Rainy impression-IX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 31 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$553
Cubists landscape-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$161
Nocturne(nomage to Chopin)-CXCII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$98
Picsou gagne toujours
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,729
Musical abstractions-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$127
Peux pas plaire à tout le monde
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 120 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$922
Landscaping CXCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$329
Musical abstractions - XV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$81
La femme et son chien
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$657
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL101
Marcel Speet
Painting - 56 x 38 x 0.01 cm Painting - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
$582
Bright Love - Teal & Golden II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500
Bright Love - Blue & Gold
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500
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."