Gestural abstraction
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Raison d'avoir tort
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Modern J. Pollock style
Max Yaskin
Painting - 150 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€690
Eclosion multicolors
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€800
Dreamscape - Two Tone Painting
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1 inch
€5,536
Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,386
BLOSSOMING OF THE TRUTH
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Peau de mur XVIII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€5,660
Peau de mur XII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€5,660
Peau de mur XIII
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€5,660
Petals of Life's Transience
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€2,300
Unveiling Life's Richness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€2,870
Unique natural beauty
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 61 x 0 inch
€2,500
My tomorrow depends on me
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 235 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 92.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
€4,850
Symphony of love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€2,950
Peau de mur V
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€5,660
The colors of the joy of the season
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
€2,100
Peau de mur II
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€5,660
By the river in the fields
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€4,250
Gratitude for the every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 125 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 49.2 x 0 inch
€2,500
A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,415
Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€14,500
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€9,000
Emergence - Ultimate Grey
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
€334
Ethereal Blue and Gold Landscape II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1 inch
€3,245
Island Vibes - Magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€3,436
Evolving Language - Composition of 6 paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1 inch
€2,291
Visual comfort
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,582
Hidden Light II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
€3,245
Visual Poetry
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,864
Just rainy-XCIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
€950
Just rainy-XCIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
€980
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."