Gestural abstraction
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Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$509
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$509
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$509
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$509
When Things Go Well
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 57 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$1,059
Pink Is The New Black
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,018
Boscos verds y lluna
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,393
Abstract 2368
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,059 $741
Kreuzberg Blues No. 2
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$916
Abstract 22136
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,118 $1,482
Abstract 22134
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,118 $1,482
Abstract 22116
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,191 $834
Abstract 2273
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,985 $1,390
Yellow Abstract Diptych, Diptyque Abstrait Jaune
Gina Vor
Painting - 39 x 58 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch
$339
About Creation We Are Energy Sublime Greyscape Divine Silence Composition
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,036
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL15D
Marcel Speet
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,183
Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$294
Abstract landscape-XL
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$792
Jazzy mood-LXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$667
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
$1,074
Explosion de couleurs - Burn
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$950
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
$1,018
Summer under the storm
Damien Berrard
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
$905
Spring under the sun
Damien Berrard
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$905
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
$961 $865
Contemporary twenties - III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch
$973
Anything you lose comes round in a different form
Tracey Adams
Painting - 122 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0 inch
$9,001
Electron libre
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,131 $1,018
Together forever and ever (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$961
Contemporary twenties - V
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$769
Couleurs et formes du monde - Mini - Here and there
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$328
Couleurs et formes du monde - Mini - Grid to play
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$328
Couleurs et formes du monde - Mini - Just a kiss
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$328
Autumn under the rain
Damien Berrard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.7 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
$905
Dreamscape - Zenobia
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$2,800
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,262
Abstract 2255
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,515 $1,760
Nocturne(homage to Chopin)-CCXLIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$215
Abstract 2360
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,250 $1,575
Abstract 2358
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,250 $1,575
Abstract 2353
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,250 $1,575
Abstract 2327
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,177 $2,224
Abstract 2324
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,250 $1,575
Abstract 2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,985 $1,390
Abstract R 2405
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,721 $1,204
Abstract R 2308
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 85 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 33.5 x 0 inch
$1,059 $741
Abstract 2248
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,853 $1,297
Abstract R 2303
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,721 $1,204
Abstract R 2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,721 $1,204
Abstract 2398
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,118 $1,482
Abstract 2397
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,118 $1,482
Abstract R 2312
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$1,853 $1,297
Abstract R 2311
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$1,853 $1,297
Abstract R 2310
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$1,853 $1,297
Abstract R 2309
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$1,853 $1,297
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."