Gestural abstraction
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Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 140 x 160 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 63 x 0 inch
€1,086
Just rainy-XXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€330 €297
Just rainy-XXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€300 €270
Rainy impression-IX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 31 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€480 €432
Summer jazz-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.3 x 0.2 inch
€480 €432
Summer jazz-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 27 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
€250 €225
Summer jazz-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 27 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
€480 €432
Summer jazz-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 33 x 43 x 0.2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.9 x 0.1 inch
€160 €144
Summer jazz-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 33 x 43 x 0.2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.9 x 0.1 inch
€160 €144
Composition-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 26 x 18 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 7.1 x 0.2 inch
€150
Formes et couleurs du monde - There is no planet B - Mars
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€950
A silver and a black angel were flying together
Rafael Sliks
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€12,000
Blending the elements of love.
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
New Collection! Golden Thoughts
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Irradiations 5
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€380
Green Everywhere (Caribbean dream)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€739
Reimagined panorama 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€734
Reimagined panorama 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€734
Reimagined panorama 4,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€734
Reimagined panorama 2,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€734
Ethereal Tides
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
€3,838
Le grand bleu - Hamptons
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 30 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
€950
Couleurs et formes du monde - Corridor in yellow
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
€850
Abstract forest-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€550
Abstract forest-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€550
Abstract forest-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€600
Abstract forest-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€600
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 7
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,500
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 6
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,950
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 5
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€900
Le grand bleu - Junior suite sea view - Windy
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€1,900
Don't close your eyes
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€3,450
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 4
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
€1,950
Paysage en Dombes
Damien Berrard
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€1,999
Melodie Monocromatiche - Classic Blue
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
€480
L'oeil du cyclone
Damien Berrard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
€999
Iridescent Drizzles (Rain in pink)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 116.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 46 x 0.7 inch
€8,184
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."