Gestural abstraction
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Amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,998
Green Everywhere (Caribbean dream)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$770
Reimagined panorama 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$765
Reimagined panorama 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$765
Reimagined panorama 4,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$765
Reimagined panorama 2,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$765
Magic tree II
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,333
Magic tree I
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,333
Joie du Coeur
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,883
Love 2
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,113
Vision
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,883
Colorado River (Erosion), Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Fréquence d'amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 97 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,768
Le Grand réveil
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,825
Nature et source
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 132 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 52 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,217
Shanti (Paix)
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,825
Renaissance
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 120 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$4,825
Irradiations 5
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$437
Time and Consequences
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$2,250
Collection BUTTERFY N°1249
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$2,815
Untitled(N° JP112BP2)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,893
Jazz
Sandra Szaja
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,149
Small Yellow Sign No 7, Abstrait Minimaliste
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$115
Magie colorée 3
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$517
The perfect day
Christian Valentine
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$3,000
Ouverture d’esprit 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$460
Dans la lumiere
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$448
Magie colorée 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$448
Trait d'union
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$448
Un monde à part
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$448
Un si joli petit village
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$391
Un autre regard
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$448
Five Summer Stories
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 165 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 65 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,481
En toute liberté
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$448
Vision 3
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$172
Vision 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$172
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."