Gestural abstraction
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Meditation
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$679
Not there 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$622
Not There 1
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$622
Cosmic Beasts
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$622
Las risas en mis sueños
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$4,897
Meditation
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,771 $1,939
Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$441
Just rainy-XXIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$158 $142
Nocturne(homage to Chopin)-CCXXX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$294
Nocturne(nomage to Chopin)-CXCII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$96
Just rainy-XXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$486 $438
Just rainy-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$418 $377
Dream Night II (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,714
Promeneur du jour V
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$565
Abstract J. Pollock style painting by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$1,785
Big heart (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,750
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,750
Capture every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$4,015
Last second of a down
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Balancing Act 4
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20.1 inch
$1,721
Balancing Act 1
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 51 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 20.1 inch
$1,721
Large scale - Ocean
Eliana Sá
Painting - 105.5 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 41.5 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,205
Wild Flowers 7 by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$2,040
Lonely trees-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$237
Abstract landscape-XXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$237
There Will Come A Day
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,824
When the sun goes down
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,824
Who's Talking To The Water?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 inch
$5,824
Do you remember?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,228
Celebration of colors series A #4
Volker Mayr
Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,018
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."