Gestural abstraction
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A way to infinity 13
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Dream Night II (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,697
A little pink mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Meditation
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$674
Not there 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$618
Not There 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$618
Cosmic Beasts
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$618
Love at first sight
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.9 inch
$4,054
Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$438
Just rainy-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$157 $142
Nocturne(homage to Chopin)-CCXXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$292
Nocturne(nomage to Chopin)-CXCII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$96
Just rainy-XXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$483 $435
Just rainy-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$416 $374
Promeneur du jour V
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$562
Just a sublime way to paint a tree
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Big heart (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,719
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,719
Capture every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$3,989
Balancing Act 4
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20.1 inch
$1,700
Balancing Act 1
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 20.1 inch
$1,700
Paesaggio poetico XXIV
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$600
Lonely trees-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$236
Abstract landscape-XXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$236
There Will Come A Day
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,755
When the sun goes down
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,755
Who's Talking To The Water?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 inch
$5,755
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."