Gestural abstraction
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Bingo!!!!! (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,586
I dream and believe (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
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Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,986
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Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 150 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,103
The Childhood of Chaos 10 original masterpiece O Kloska (1977)
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
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Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,502
Inner landscapes - II
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
Melodie Monocromatiche - Aqua
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$500
Floating over pink #2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
Collection Bleu d'été - "Fifty shades of blue"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 130 x 89 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$2,125 $1,679
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Marco Saporiti
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$224
Purple Lilac and Blue Diptych
Paulo Gnecco
Painting - 95 x 190 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 74.8 x 0.8 inch
$5,592
Evening with Mia
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
Balancing Act 2
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 50.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20 inch
$1,721
Irradiations 5
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$425
Petite composition 7-24
Jean François Guelfi
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$280 $252
Ailleurs n°201 (la solitude ou 2 sans 1)
Molok
Painting - 76 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,908
Chute libre 6
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 39.5 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 15.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,237 $2,013
The blue one
Christian Valentine
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,900
Enchanted Glade
Gaëlle Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 150 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
$1,342
Abstract n° 1146
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,684
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,237
Gestures
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$671 $604
Nude in Red (Nue Edition)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
Square and no limit
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,480
Without identity
Maurizio Gracceva
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 72 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 28.3 x 0 inch
$1,678
Into the Flow II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
Movement | Bronze Sculpture
Aloyzas Smilingis
Sculpture - 33 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 13 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
$9,507
Higher
Sandra Szaja
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,118
Urban Ocean
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$671
Multiple de Fond et de Matière
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
$123
Dans la machine
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$615
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."