Gestural abstraction
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Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,597
Morning formations
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,858
Rectangles de couleurs
Damien Berrard
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,023
Summer under the storm
Damien Berrard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$1,461
Autumn under the rain
Damien Berrard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.7 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$1,124
Spring under the sun
Damien Berrard
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$899
Leaning Into It,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$14,900
Putting It Out There,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,300
Caribbean ocean waters
Nestor Toro
Painting - 147.3 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 58 x 43 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Colorful display of affection 1 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$15,000
Purple Display of Affection (Blue and Silver) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$20,000
Colorful display of affection 2 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Tangled Up In Blue
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$10,000
Drizzles and Rust
Nestor Toro
Painting - 111.8 x 119.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 44 x 47 x 0.7 inch
$5,530
Sparks (Oceanfront night)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 114.3 x 106.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 45 x 42 x 0.7 inch
$7,030
Volcanic lightning (Earth formations)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 38 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Frozen carnival (Water flow)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 188 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 74 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
Lush Greenery (Regrowth) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 182.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$20,650
Awaken to the Magic
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$4,101
You need a fish
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 140 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,562 $3,894
Life is overwhelmingly beautiful but tragically short (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$405
Ethereal Blue and Gold Landscape II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1 inch
$3,400
Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,315
Renouveau 2
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,663
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,326
Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,663
Peau de Mur 25
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,663
Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,663
Peau de mur 19
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,719
Peau de mur 10
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,933
Peau de mur 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 61 x 142 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 55.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,596
Peau de mur 6
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 134 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 52.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,236
Changes are inevitable
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$3,034
Pastel Dreams 3 - Pink Abstract (Abstrait Rose)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$899
Sunset melody by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,517
White and Black 2 (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 108 x 78.5 x 2 cm Painting - 42.5 x 30.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Sunset in Amorgos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2.3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.9 inch
$4,643
Small green wave
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,289
Dawn Dream Desire (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,798
Twilight in the lavender field
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
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."