Gestural abstraction
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Poetic landscape - White on white
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,400
Siesta ( bajo la sombra del bambú )
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,272
Adelfas blancas de perséfone para hades
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,555
No entres docilmente en esa buena noche
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,272
Behind the Image XI
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,720
Voyage en couleur
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,366
Visual Poetry X
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
Last of the Species,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 269.2 x 139.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 106 x 55 x 0.1 inch
$19,750
Celebration of colors series B #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,034
Celebration Of Colors Series A #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,034
In the heat of the night #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$1,034
Still Life With Palette (Peinture Semi-abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 116 x 81 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
$6,204
Evening Violet (Grand Tableau)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 135 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 53.1 x 0.8 inch
$7,123
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL101
Marcel Speet
Painting - 56 x 38 x 0.01 cm Painting - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
$580
Garden in blue mood
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 228.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 90 x 0.7 inch
$16,520
New York City Second Avenue
Cosmos
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$8,961
Vers la lumière
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$574
Looking for Anomalies
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,450
The Girl in My Dreams
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$4,150
Giving Voice to It
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$5,050
Redhead with Highlights
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$3,350
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."