Gestural abstraction
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Abstract R 2401
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,730 $1,211
Abstract R 2316
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,129 $1,490
Persona YB2306
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Split panorama 4 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 5 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Red valley (Heat wave)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Dancing out the door
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.2 inch
$1,700
Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$1,280
Like a sunday morning
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$1,500
Hazel Sky (Glowing grass)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Abstract 2244
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,064 $745
Abstract 2242
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,129 $1,490
Fogy New York city
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$1,743
Entre deux mondes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 4.7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
$215
Coral's composition
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,258
Holding It Togetherness
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,859
Summertime at Cawthorne Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,790
Rainbows and Halo's
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,790
Plus fort que tout
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$407
Winning freedom !
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$2,716
Abstract 2386
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract 2385
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract2384
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract 2379
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract 2378
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract 2374
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,597 $1,118
Abstract 2367
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,064 $745
Abstract 2363
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,996 $1,397
Abstract S2303
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$865 $605
Abstract S2302
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$865 $605
Abstract 2335
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,331 $931
Abstract 2334
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,331 $931
Linen Light, Mixed Media on Canvas
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 inch
$450
Abstract 2310
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,996 $1,397
Abstract 2301
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,996 $1,397
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."