Gestural abstraction
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Oiseaux Bleus Arbres Rouges
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 114 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
The Orchestral Overture
Anatole Krasnyansky
Fine Art Drawings - 62.2 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 19.5 inch
€7,279
Silent wave
Mahabbeh Mowakket
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€873
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
€300
Le passeur et l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
€500
Overwhelmingly beautiful life (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
La Vida Sin Ti
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€3,632
Cattleya orchid
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,260
Persona YB2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,847
Persona YB2401
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,847
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
€4,100
It's like tenderness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,150
It's like love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,250
In search of silence
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 295 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 116.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
€3,850
Close as a dream
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 90 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€640
Victoria horkan
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,186
No rules (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€980
Explore, dream, discover! (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€980
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
€980
Right now (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Matisse’s Daytime Flower Parade
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,432
The Storm Participant
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,940
Baby Your A Firework
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,186
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
€4,555
Orange tree day
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 130 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,250
Doors of new opportunities
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 130 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,550
Keep smiling to life
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,250 €1,100
Those same lilies of Claude Monet (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 65 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Orange tree
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
€980 €804
Série vibration du coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 116 x 249 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 98 x 1.2 inch
€4,200
Un camino hacia el verano
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,050
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
€4,050
Paysage onirique 224
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 61 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€1,600
For Ever, Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 240 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 94.5 x 0 inch
€5,233
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
€6,464
Access Memories
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€3,263
Ceci est une confusion
Yichao Sun
Painting - 100 x 125 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,200
Embracing the sunset
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€2,250
Explore. Dream. Discover
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 43.3 x 0 inch
€3,850
Earthbound Serenity (1)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
€2,750
Success comes in waves
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 115 x 0.3 cm Painting - 80.7 x 45.3 x 0.1 inch
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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."