Gestural abstraction
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No Quarter with Cartier
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,342
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
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$6,885
There Will Come A Day
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,826
When the sun goes down
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,826
My dreamy world
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,826
I want to shine for you
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
Calm after the storm
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$7,414
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
$1,007
Do You Hear It?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$5,031
Dancing under the sun
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 116 x 89 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0 inch
$4,171
How things really are
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$4,766
Do you remember?
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 0.1 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$5,230
A different sunset
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch
$3,310
The magic of a sunny day
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 125 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,734
Reflections of Europe, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
Entre l'ombre et la lumière
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,429
Paesaggio poetico XXIV
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$600 $450
Exploring minimalism and vibrant contrast in brown, grey, and white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,431
Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 71.1 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 40 x 1 inch
$1,500
Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$3,803
Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$3,132
The power of now
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,579
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mini - Grid to play"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$324
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mini - Just a kiss"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$324
Lucioles dans le ciel nocturne
Yichao Sun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Sueños (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$604
Into the consciousness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
Te quiero, te quiero
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,076
Swimming in silence (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,669
Cosmic religion (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,020
Facing summer (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,691
Happiness (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 115 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
Promises (Triptych)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 90 x 270 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0 inch
$5,826
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."