Gestural abstraction
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In the chair
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£222
Rainy erotica-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£284 £256
Rainy erotica-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£258 £232
Rainy erotica-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£258 £232
Cœur Électro - Techno Contemporain de Lyrisme Abstrait coeur
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£1,502
Mirrored desires: A moonlit encounter
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 63 x 1.6 inch
£3,333
Portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£4,444
Double portrait-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£3,555
Portrait-II(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£4,444
Triple portrait-II(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£5,332
Triple portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£5,332
Double portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£4,888
Waterfall Study 2- By The River
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 90 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
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Fragility and beauty of the life
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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New chapters of your unique story (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
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In Wonderland Everyone Wears a Crown
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #5
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
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Explosion de couleurs - Explosion
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
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Every drop of sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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Together (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
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It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.9 inch
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Great love in your heart
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
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Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 1
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
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And the prow of its foams
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0 inch
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Contemporary twenties II / 24k gold
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Spree waves Berlin
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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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."