Gestural abstraction
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Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,342
Renouveau 2
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,706
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,365
Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,706
Peau de Mur 25
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,706
Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,706
Landscaping-CXXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$125
Summer jazz-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 44 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.3 x 0.2 inch
$546
White and Black 2 (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 108 x 78.5 x 2 cm Painting - 42.5 x 30.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Pastel Dreams 3 - Pink Abstract (Abstrait Rose)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$909
Dawn Dream Desire (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
Audrey et la Piqûre des Illusions
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$682
Abstract 2420
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,536 $1,775
Le Grand bleu - Blue III
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$955
Le Grand bleu - Blue I
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$955
Twilight in the lavender field
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Awaiting the Unseen
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$2,785
The hour in which the state of the world is changing
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,979
Le grand bleu - Fifty shades of blue
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 130 x 89 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$2,160
Couleurs et formes du monde - Keep climbing
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,705
Life story, Love story (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$477
Tribu africaine - Soleil infini
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,023
Paint in black - Lights in the sixties
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,023
Le Grand bleu - Blue II
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$955
Explosion de couleurs - Sailing
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$955
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
$955
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
$1,705
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
$1,705
Abstract forest-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$330
Ethereal Tides
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
$4,000
Dancing in Hues
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,100
Nocturne-XXXII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$119
Jump session(Jazzy)-XIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 20 x 15 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.2 inch
$227
Rainy impression-IX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 31 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$546
Summer jazz-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 27 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$546
Composition-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 26 x 18 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 7.1 x 0.2 inch
$171
Cubists landscape-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$171
Cubists landscape-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$159
Pink Is The New Black
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,023
Candelaria ou la femme en rose
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$909
A silver and a black angel were flying together
Rafael Sliks
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$14,551
Psychedelic flower
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,023
Invisible landscape
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 157.5 x 20.3 cm Painting - 40 x 62 x 8 inch
$12,500
Le Grand bleu - Monochrome
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 70 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$1,705
Abstract forest-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$341
Music(blue night)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$341
Imagination play-VII(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$455
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL85
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$455
Summer dreaming (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,705
The Blue Hour (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,762
Le Grand bleu - There is no planet B - Earth
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,080
Explosion de couleurs - Burn
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$955
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 2
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,023
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."