Gestural abstraction
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Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£507
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Painting - 120 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
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£3,555
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£444
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Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,777
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Stanislav Bojankov
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£267
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Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£533
Landscaping on Jazz-XCIX
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Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£400
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Painting - 100 x 100 x 5.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2.2 inch
£755
Landscaping on Jazz-LXXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
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Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0 inch
£62
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Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£182 £164
Nocturne-CCXXXVI (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£240
Nocturne CXCIV (Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
£67
Landscaping on Jazz-XCVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£364
Fish and snail
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Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£267
Droiture
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£249
Brightness 11 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
£2,177
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Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
£2,133
Branché vers Ailleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,244
Une Poignée de Lumière
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£533
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Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£889
Colors of happiness
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 140 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£4,977
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Painting - 120 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
£711
Unstructured emotional explosion
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£533
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."