Gestural abstraction
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Study for Adagio Presto
Geo Hizny
Painting - 71.12 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 60 x 0.7 inch
£4,214
Harmony of the zodiac: pisces/virgo axis
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,173
A symphony of golden, red, and black in circles and ovals
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£4,391
Orange, brown, white and golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
£2,440
Untitled - pink marble black
Ilja Freer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,783
Untitled - flower marble
Ilja Freer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,783
The origin of the earth
Ilja Freer
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,173
Amour incandescent - Lyrisme abstrait
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,677
Abstract 21110
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£1,900 £1,330
Abstract 2185
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£1,900 £1,330
Abstract 2160
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,200 £1,540
Abstract 1270
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,900 £1,330
The very moments (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£417
Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£417
Siesta ( bajo la sombra del bambú )
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£3,298
Adelfas blancas de perséfone para hades
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 100 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,745
No entres docilmente en esa buena noche
Gabriela Lavezzari
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£3,298
Celebration of colors series B #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£798
Celebration Of Colors Series A #2
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£798
In the heat of the night #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 43 x 54.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
£798
Untitled (N° JP0822BP2)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£9,581
Into the Flow IV
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£1,863
Fragments d'émotion - Pourpre
Bonus
Painting - 54 x 65 x 0.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,331
Brief moment of light
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
£8,428
Colorful silence - Claude Monet inspired
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 65 x 0 inch
£5,145
It's a perfect day
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1 inch
£2,218
Poetic Landscape - Gold II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
£488
Silence between the lines
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,863
On a sunny day #2
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£3,105
Confrontation 3 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
£790
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."