Gestural abstraction
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Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2.3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.9 inch
£3,550
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Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
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Marcel Speet
Painting - 56 x 38 x 0.01 cm Painting - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
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Dawn Dream Desire (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,429
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Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£893
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Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£295
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Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£232
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Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
£375
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Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,608
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Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£804
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Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
£804
Le Grand bleu - Blue II
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
£750
Explosion de couleurs - Sailing
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
£750
Explosion de couleurs - Finger prints
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
£750
Explosion de couleurs - A frame in a frame
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
£1,340
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 3
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
£1,340
Abstract 22124
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
£1,250
Résonances sous le Feuillage
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
£715 £643
Couleurs et formes du monde - The Palm
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
£267
Radiating Love
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£2,322
Pink Is The New Black
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£804
Summer dreaming (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,340
The Blue Hour (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,384
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Damien Berrard
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1 inch
£1,965
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."