Gestural abstraction
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Visual Dance I - Black & White - Framed- Ready to hang
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
$400
BLOSSOMING OF THE TRUTH
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$6,742
Horizon's embrace
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,933
Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,293
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$10,113
Glass Sapphire
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$7,700 $6,545
Every Shade of You - Smeraldo
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$8,400
Petals of Life's Transience
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,584
Unveiling Life's Richness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,225
Unique natural beauty
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 61 x 0 inch
$2,809
The uncertainty of transience
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 235 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 92.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,562
Symphony of love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,315
Timeless vibes - Composition of 70 paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 172.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 68 x 1 inch
$8,100
Mesmerizing dreams
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$9,200
The colors of the joy of the season
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
$2,360
By the river in the fields
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$4,776
Beside Myself - Series#15
Kris Haas
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.6 inch
$225
Orange Simply - Series#15
Kris Haas
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.6 inch
$225
Just rainy-XCIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,067 $961
Just rainy-XCIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,101 $991
Gratitude for the every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 125 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 49.2 x 0 inch
$2,809
Riflesso blue
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$9,000
Golden view
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,800
Just rainy-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,854 $1,669
Just rainy-LXXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,011 $910
Just rainy-LXXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,011 $910
Just rainy-LXXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,517 $1,365
Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,067 $961
Heart(black and white)-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
Heart(black and white)-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,247 $2,023
Heart(black and white)-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
Heart(black and white)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
Heart(black and white)-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
Abstract(six hearts)-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,966 $1,770
Sui-Generis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Abstract landscape-XXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$989 $890
Just rainy XXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$989 $890
Blue heart - XXXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,517 $1,365
Heart-XV (inspired by George Orwells "1984")
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,023
Monument-VII (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 68 x 48 x 0.1 cm Print - 26.8 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$1,124
Monument-VI (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Monument-V (Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Abstract landscape (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, 2007)
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,124
Sui-Generis_IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
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."