Gestural abstraction
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couleurs en lumière
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,011
À la Kermesse (1)
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,068
Perspectives enchevêtrées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,723
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
$919
Les sous bois chuchotés
Muriel Deumie
Print - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,551
La nature me raconte
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,321
La ruée vers l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,023
La cabane tchanquée
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 30 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,034
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
$1,723
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
$1,149
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
$345
Rectangles de couleurs
Damien Berrard
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$574
Nocturne-CLXXXVIII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$149
Landscaping-CXXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$126
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
$551
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
$1,723
Musical abstractions-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$126
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
$919
Landscaping CXCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$327
Musical abstractions - XV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$80
La femme et son chien
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$655
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
Bright Love III
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 1.5 inch
$500
Les oiseaux bleus repartent à l'automne
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 114 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,298
Sans Titre 14 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,298
Eléments d'âme en flottement 5
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$574
Eléments d'âme en flottement 8
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$574
Eléments d'âme en flottement 6
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$574
Eléments d'âme en flottement 2
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$574
Où naissent les oiseaux
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$574
Fragmentation 1 - Où sont passés les oiseaux ?
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 46.5 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 18.3 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$919
Sans Titre 13 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,298
Sans Titre 31 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,298
Sakura diptych
Max Yaskin
Painting - 200 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,320 $2,656
White heart on a white square-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 53 x 78 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 30.7 x 0 inch
$333
Art urbain partagé
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,298
Machine à remonter le temps
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$689
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."