Gestural abstraction
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Untitled(N° COL1122P3)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€1,920
Abstract R 2401
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0 inch
€1,592 €1,115
Abstract R 2316
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 120 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0 inch
€1,960 €1,372
Persona YB2306
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,470 €1,029
Split panorama 4 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€988
Split panorama 5 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€988
Red valley (Heat wave)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€988
Dancing out the door
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.2 inch
€1,630
Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€1,227
Like a sunday morning
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€1,438
Hazel Sky (Glowing grass)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€988
Abstract 2244
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
€980 €686
Abstract 2242
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,960 €1,372
Fogy New York city
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€1,540
Entre deux mondes
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 12 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 4.7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
€190
Coral's composition
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,919
Holding It Togetherness
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,552
Summertime at Cawthorne Park
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,409
Rainbows and Halo's
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,409
Plus fort que tout
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€360
Winning freedom !
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
€2,400
Abstract 2386
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,470 €1,029
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."