Gestural abstraction
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Le feu, les 4 éléments.
Damien Berrard
Painting - 32.5 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$168
L'eau et l'air, les 4 éléments.
Damien Berrard
Painting - 32.5 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$168
Terre, les 4 éléments.
Damien Berrard
Painting - 32.5 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 12.8 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$168
Rectangles de couleurs
Damien Berrard
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$559
A little pink mood
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$761
Abstract J. Pollock style painting by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1 inch
$1,785
Las risas en mis sueños
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$4,899
Un instant de bonheur
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$436
Imagination play-VII(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$447
Imagination play-II(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$436
Imagination play-I(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$336
Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$291
Collection Rêveries d'automne - "Mini - Here and there"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$324
Dream Night II (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,684
Big heart (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,698
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,698
Summer on my mind
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$615
Sunday feeling on a Wednesday (III)
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$391
Dance Chromatique
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$537
Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue III"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$940 $743
Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue I"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$940 $743
Collection Bleu d'été - "Blue II"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 38 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$940 $743
Collection Bleu d'été - "Monochrome"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 70 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$1,678 $1,325
Collection Bleu d'été - "There is no planet B - Earth"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,063 $840
Collection Bleu d'été - "Oasis"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$4,463 $3,527
Protect the Children
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,007
La nature me raconte
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,286
Improvisation-LXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$296
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."