Gestural abstraction
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Just rainy-XCII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€500
Birds II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€180
Birds I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€150
Radiating Love
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,673
Melodie Monocromatiche - Purple hearth
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
€334
IN SHADES OF PINK
Juliana Haggoo
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€450
Winter Meadow
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,980 €1,584
Autumn Tree 6
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,750 €1,225
Els arbres ploren III
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€450
Papillons abstrait N°1208
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Hidden Light - Teal Obsession
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
€2,291
Jazzy mood-LXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€590
Just rainy-XCIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€510
Just rainy-XCVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€520
Just rainy-XCVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€500
Just rainy-XCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.3 inch
€540
Emotional fragments-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€650
Emotional fragments-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€650
Emotional fragments-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€650
Jazzy mood-LXXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€650
Jazzy mood-LXXIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€650
Abstract landscape-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€500
Abstract landscape-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€500
Abstract landscape-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€500
Trial to flying-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€700
Trial to flying-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€700
Trial to flying-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€700
Abstract-VII (six hearts)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Abstract-II (six hearts)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Rainy painting
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 62 x 62 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 24.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Improvisation-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€750
Abstract-III (four hearts)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 90 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 inch
€1,150
Abstract landscape-XXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€650
Abstract landscape-XXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€650
Heart-XXI (Homage to Jackson Pollock)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Révolte Spectrale
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 80.5 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
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."