Gestural abstraction
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Droiture
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$322
Masque (J'ai rêvé d'un scarabée)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,149
Candelaria ou la femme en rose
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$919
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mini - Here and there"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$172
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mini - Grid to play"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$172
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mini - Just a kiss"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$172
La diseuse de bonne aventure
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$2,183
Nocturne CCXXXIII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$230
Intuitive absraction-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 21 x 21 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$126
Nocturne-CXC (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$126
Landscaping-CLXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$138
Nocturne-CXCVII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$149
Nocturne-CLXII (to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$138
Hommage aux Légendes du Sport
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,298
Jump session(Jazzy)-XIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 15 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.2 inch
$230
Summer jazz-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.3 x 0.2 inch
$551
Summer jazz-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 27 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$551
Cubists landscape-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$172
Audrey et la Piqûre des Illusions
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$689
Abstract forest-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$345
Abstract forest-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$333
Music(blue night)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$345
Imagination play-VII(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$460
Imagination play-II(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$448
Imagination play-I(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$345
Abstract landscape
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$379
Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$299
Nocturne(homage to Chopin)-CCXXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$299
Nocturne(homage to Chopin)-CCXLIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$218
Just rainy-XXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$494
Branché vers Ailleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,608
Une Poignée de Lumière
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$689
Just rainy-XCI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$345
Abstract landscape-XXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$322
Abstract landscape-XX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$333
Absytract landscape-XIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$333
Abstract landscape-XVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$333
Abstract landscape-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 43 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$310
Abstract landscape-XVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 38 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15 x 21.3 x 0 inch
$276
Abstract landscape-XV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 38 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15 x 21.3 x 0 inch
$276
Abstract landscape-XIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 38 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15 x 21.3 x 0 inch
$276
Abstract landscape-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$149
Abstract landscape-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$149
Jazzy mood-LXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$517
Jazzy mood-LXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$517
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."