Gestural abstraction
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Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€2,800
Vibrant sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
€1,350
Happy morning time (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€1,550
Open your heart (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 40 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
€620
Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€3,400
Victoria horkan
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,151
Imagination play-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€950 €855
Imagination play-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€950 €855
Moonlight (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
Into the consciousness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,500
Big heart (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
€4,200
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
€4,200
Beyond the rain-drenched streets #8
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Promises (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
€5,372
Time for change (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
€680
Todo Se Conecta
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€4,029
Branché vers Ailleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
Gestural enigmatic still life abstract pot with flowers Kloska
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Sueños (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€540
Melodie Monocromatiche - Classic Blue
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
€486
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
€6,349
Green Everywhere (Caribbean dream)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€748
Reimagined panorama 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€744
Reimagined panorama 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€744
Reimagined panorama 4,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€744
Reimagined panorama 2,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€744
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 7
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,500
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 6
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,950 €1,560
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 5
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€900
Le grand bleu - Junior suite sea view - Windy
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€1,900
Don't close your eyes
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€3,450
Dawn dream (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
The present moment is all you have (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 170 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 66.9 x 0 inch
€2,550
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #3
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,400
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Iridescent Drizzles (Rain in pink)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 116.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 46 x 0.7 inch
€8,292
Looking for Anomalies
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,326
The Girl in My Dreams
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€4,034
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."