Gestural abstraction
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Recycled
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$270
Lady in a hat
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$258 $233
Portrait
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$90
Portrait
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$79 $71
Diversity III
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$169
Convergence
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$169
People of desert II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 33 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$225
Major Tom
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$472
Portrait of the dark side
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 160 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,776
Eternal Footprints
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,382
The Lavoisier's marriage
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,270
Éther floral en éclat d'âme
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$449
Morning, Afternoon, Evening (Tryptic)
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$281
Birds II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$202
People of Desert I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 33 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$225
Birds I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$169
Far & Deep
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$449
Diversity I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$281
Liverpool Legends
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,618
Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,775
Indian force
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$337
No Gender Smoking human being
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$213
Deux Roses
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$337
La Récréation des Âmes
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$281
Je marche seule
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$202
Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,916
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Muriel Deumie
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$382
Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,916
The Star Knight
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 25 x 17 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.6 inch
$337
Headspace
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$393
In the chair
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$281
Figure-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 110 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,472 $2,225
Figure
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,584 $2,326
Rainy erotica-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$360
Rainy erotica-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$326
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."