Gestural abstraction
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Richesse et nuances
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,572
Colors moving
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,358
Voyage en couleur
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,242
Plunging into our dreams
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 120 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,275
Time series: no time limits
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,875
At the edge of the water
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,325
Tender Deep Vibes - Tender sea
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 140 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,990
When a man loves a woman
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,419
Fast Burning
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$167
Joyful Delivery
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$167
Sad dance or light through the rain
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$167
Being animal
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 32 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$212
Diversity II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.15 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$279
Athena of Liberty
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$502
Bright Love - White - White Frame
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500 $400
A large heart iconostasis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 240 x 840 x 3 cm Painting - 94.5 x 330.7 x 1.2 inch
$89,302
La pousseuse d'horizon
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$424
I Can't Breathe II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 21.3 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.4 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$111
Happiness is indigenous
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 29.5 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$111
Sir David Attenborough
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,191
Ludwig van Beethoven
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,186
The Guitar Wizard
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
Jackson Pollock style acrylic
Max Yaskin
Painting - 120 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$502
Recycled
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$268
Pas dit mon dernier mot !
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$781
les valseuses
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 90 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$882
Petites histoires habitées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$532
Marie Curie Sklodowska
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,465
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."