Gestural abstraction
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Abstract 2202
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 100 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 39.4 inch
£1,700
Black and White 3 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
£1,244
A la recherche de couleurs 4
Yichao Sun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£622
Behind the Image XI
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
£1,426
New York city lights 4 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,466
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Max Yaskin
Painting - 90 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,377
Fogy New York city
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
£1,369
Plus fort que tout
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£320
Entre deux mondes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 4.7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
£169
Coral's composition
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,200
Holding It Togetherness
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,900
The wonderful morning dreams of Alice - Composition 58
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,666
Summertime at Cawthorne Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,600
Rainbows and Halo's
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,600 £2,880
Down The Rabbit Hole
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,600
Poetic landscape - White on white
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
£1,161 £987
Els arbres ploren II
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£400
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide 1
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£755
Averous - Disjointed reality #10
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
£1,555
Hopeful - Disjointed reality #9
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
£1,555
Madness by night - Disjointed reality #7
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
£1,555
Falling - Disjointed reality #6
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
£1,555
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."