Gestural abstraction
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Boscos verds y lluna
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,000
Nocturne(homage to Chopin)-CCXXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€260
When Things Go Well
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 57 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€979
Yellow Abstract Diptych, Diptyque Abstrait Jaune
Gina Vor
Painting - 39 x 58 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch
€300
Imagination play-VII(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€400
Imagination play-II(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€390
Imagination play-I(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€300
Abstract landscape-XL
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€630
Collection Couleurs d'automne - "Mini - Here and there"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€290
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide 1
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€850
Summer under the storm
Damien Berrard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
€800
Spring under the sun
Damien Berrard
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€800
Kreuzberg Blues No. 2
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€810
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL15D
Marcel Speet
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,815
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini III
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
€199
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini II
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
€199
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed mini I
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
€199
Overwhelmingly beautiful life
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Landscaping-CXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€120
Landscaping-CXLVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€110
Landscaping-CXLII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€110
Le feu, les 4 éléments.
Damien Berrard
Painting - 32.5 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€150
L'eau et l'air, les 4 éléments.
Damien Berrard
Painting - 32.5 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€150
Terre, les 4 éléments.
Damien Berrard
Painting - 32.5 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€150
Autumn under the rain
Damien Berrard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.7 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
€800
Contemporary twenties - III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch
€860
Collection Couleurs d'automne - "Mini - Grid to play"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€290
Collection Couleurs d'automne - "Mini - Just a kiss"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€290
Colletion Couleurs d'automne - "Gabriel"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 146 x 96 x 3.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 37.8 x 1.4 inch
€3,500
Dreamscape - Zenobia
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€2,673
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."