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."

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Reflection I

Monument-VII (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY, 2007)

Fragments-V

Winter Tree 2 by M.Y.

Because More

Création A177 avec ou sans cadre

Création A192 avec ou sans cadre

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Création A175 avec ou sans cadre

Balancing Act 1

Judgment ride

Hasta la vista

Abstract No. 75

Abstract J. Pollock style painting by M.Y.

Claim 86

Blue Garden

Miracle

Hope

My autumn

The dance of autumn

Euphoria

Garden

My dream

Life force

Untitled(N° JP112BP2)

Colors of love

Untitled(N° COL0722P3)

Narew

Sun

Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey

The scent of meadow

Ladder

Green ballet

Ocean

Chrome 2

Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue I"

Le pays de neige

Splash 51

Splash 49

Splash 38

Claim 105

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Claim 33

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Claim 82

Claim 65

Claim 9

Theorem 2

Splash 64

Hand painted II, dragon rouge

Hand painted III

Winter flowers

Urban style

Confusion

Color lines, blue-purple

Color lines, orange-pink