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."

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Gestural abstraction

Morning Fire

Solar Fire

Yellow Reunion (Lost Lights) 2

Buddha's window

Blinding sunlight

Dynamic drizzles (Abstract language)

Dynamic drizzles (Yellow reflection)

Dynamic drizzles (Abstract language) 2

Water and Forest

Intermittent Dreams 1

Intermittent Dreams 2

Split Panorama 1

Split panorama 2 (Action divided)

Split panorama 3 (Action divided)

Drizzles symphony 8 (multi 3 canvas) Triptych

Split panorama 4 (Action divided)

Split panorama 5 (Action divided)

Red valley (Heat wave)

A forest song (Faces of green) 2

Buddha's window 2

Buddha's window 3

A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 4

An instant paradise

An instant paradise,

Many miles offshore,

Double imagery (reflective pool),

Many miles inland

An instant paradise 2

A Warm Feeling

A Time To Imagine

Sunny Dimensions

A Time To Imagine 2

Double Imagery (Forest Pond), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Effusive Silence 4

Ultra radiant fire spectra

Radiant purple synergy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Drizzles Ave., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Unexpected Memories

In Between Seasons 2

In Between Seasons 3,

Ultimate brightness

Color splendor (Over silver blue)

Foliage and breeze (A forest song)

Where sounds disappear 1

Where sounds disappear 3

A Forest Song (Circle of seasons)

Strange phenomena

A beautiful noise 1,

A Beautiful Noise 2

A Beautiful Noise 3

Fast nature (Among bees)

Fast Nature (nighttime motion)

Drizzles symphony 8

Red valley (Heat wave)

A forest song (Faces of green) 2

Buddha's window 2

Buddha's window 3

A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 3

A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 4

Flickering garden

Flickering garden 2

Like a sunday morning

A greener grass

Puzzled Imagery (Red reflections)

Distorted pond (Iridescent garden)

Green garden