Gestural abstraction
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La symphonie de la nature
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£622
Miro et moi
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 39 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
£533
J'ai mal aux yeux
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 60 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£533
La ronde de l'innocence - Enfants du monde
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 50 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£2,035
Les fées de l'élégance céleste - le mouvement dans la danse
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,035
Gainsbourg et Jane
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,777
Modern J. Pollock style
Max Yaskin
Painting - 150 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
£613
J. Pollock acrylic on canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 92 x 149 x 1 cm Painting - 36.2 x 58.7 x 0.4 inch
£791
J. Pollock style acrylic
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 149 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 58.7 x 0.4 inch
£515
Vintage J. Pollock style
Max Yaskin
Painting - 85 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
£667
Bright Love III
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 1.5 inch
£415
Abstract action painting on canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 150 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
£693
The scent of meadow
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,288
Landscaping on jazz-LXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£213 £192
Perspectives enchevêtrées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Le train train des Etats Unis en 40
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Photography - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£711
Les sous bois chuchotés
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,200
La nature me raconte
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,022
Des petits trous
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 58 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Abstract landscape-XXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£231 £208
Illuminations-VIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£231 £208
Landscaping on jazz-LXXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£142
Landscaping on jazz-LXXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
Landscaping on jazz-LXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 32 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 18.1 x 0 inch
£173
Landscaping on jazz-LXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£213
Street art in the school
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 73 x 92.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.4 x 1 inch
£889
When you fall in love again
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 140 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,564
Landscape inspired by Rothko
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,564
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."