Gestural abstraction
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Jazzy mood-LXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
£133
Improvisation-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
£116
Abstract(early winter)-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
£133
Just rainy-LXXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
£160
Just rainy-LXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
£160
Homage to Cezanne-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 44 x 53 x 2 cm Painting - 17.3 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch
£267
Just rainy-LXXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£355
Just rainy-LXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£142
Musical abstracts-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£142
Landscaping-CXXXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£62
Improvisation-LXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236
Improvisation-LI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236
Improvisation-LIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236
Improvisation-XLII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236
Improvisation-XLI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236
Improvisation-XL
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236
Man with a heart-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£355
Man with a heart-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£355
Man with a heart-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£355
Man with a heart-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£355
Man with a heart-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£355
Improvisation-LXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£329
Improvisation-LXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
Improvisation-XXXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
Improvisation-XXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
Improvisation-XXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
Improvisation-XXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231
Nocturne-CXCXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£138
Abstract landscape-XXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 24 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£142
Landscaping on Jazz-L
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£227
Abstract landscape-XVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£231
Landscaping on Jazz-XCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£427
Abstract landscape
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 36 x 43 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
£196
Abstract in grey-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 29 x 29 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
£71
Out of Shadow
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£444
Just rainy(autumn)-XXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£387
Musical abstractions-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 26 x 26 x 1 cm Painting - 10.2 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
£84
Landscaping on Jazz-XXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£222
Just rainy-LXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£311
Lonely Trees-XVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£240
Landscaping on Jazz-LXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£222
Just rainy-XXXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£249
Landscaping on Jazz=XXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 28 x 28 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11 x 11 x 0 inch
£89
Landscaping on Jazz-XXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 9.8 x 0 inch
£58
Abstract landscape-XXVII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
£409
Landscaping on Jazz-XCV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£435
Nocturne-CCXXV (homage to Chobin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£138
Landscaping on Jazz-XXXIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 65 x 92 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0 inch
£400
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-LXXXIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£142
Landscaping on Jazz-LXXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£387
Abstract landscape-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£227
Just rainy-LVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£409
Landscaping-CLXXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£236 £212
Homage to Cezanne
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£267 £240
Just rainy-XLIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£249
Landscaping on Jazz-LV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£236
Landscaping on Jazz-XC
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£151
Abstract sity-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£98 £88
Presentiment-XXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£222 £200
Landscaping on Jazz-IX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£249
Nocturne-CXCXXIX (homage to Chpoin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£231 £208
Landscaping on jazz-V (Satchmo)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£227 £204
Landscaping on jazz (Dexter)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£249 £224
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."