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

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

Dynamique III

Dynamique II

Dynamique I

Abstract-VII (six hearts)

Abstract-II (six hearts)

Fragments-XIII

Fragments-XI

Fragments-IV

Abstract-III (four hearts)

Sans titre

Improvisation-I

Blue heart - XXXIV

Heart-XXI (Homage to Jackson Pollock)

Petite Lueur

L'art triste - ( collection Des maux pour le dire )

Jungle flowers 7

Aphrodite

Happy Street

Maria

Colors of happiness

Meadow of joy

No.8

Flowers 8

Paradis Perdu

Couleurs en friches

covid 2019

Space planète

Bla bla entre amis

Expression 13

Krabi 3

Disco flowers

Transient structure 5

Feeling good

Transient structure 2

Samurai

Winter Meadow 2

Heart 5

Double portrait-I

Peux pas plaire à tout le monde

Infanta in Pink