Gestural abstraction
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Emergence - Ultimate Grey
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
BLOSSOMING OF THE TRUTH
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$6,785
Ethereal Blue and Gold Landscape II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1 inch
$3,400
Island Vibes - Magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$3,600 $2,880
Horizon's embrace
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,958
Evolving Language - Composition of 6 paintings
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1 inch
$2,400
Visual comfort
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,800
Hidden Light II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
$3,400
Rare ‘fragments collection’
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$16,398
Visual Poetry
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
Unpredictable past - Paesaggio Poetico
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,500
Golden desert of Dubai
Sandra Szaja
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$10,178
Petals of Life's Transience
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,601
Unveiling Life's Richness
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,246
Unique natural beauty
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 61 x 0 inch
$2,827
Whispers at the edge of daybreak
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,375
The uncertainty of transience
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 235 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 92.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$5,598
Symphony of love
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,336
The colors of the joy of the season
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
$2,375 $2,019
By the river in the fields
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$4,806
Beside Myself - Series#15
Kris Haas
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.6 inch
$225
Orange Simply - Series#15
Kris Haas
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.6 inch
$225
Just rainy-XCIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$1,108
Gratitude for the every moment
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 125 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 49.2 x 0 inch
$2,827
Just rainy-LXXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Just rainy-LXXXII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Just rainy-LXXXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,527
Just rainy-LXXV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,074
Heart(black and white)-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Heart(black and white)-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Heart(black and white)-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Heart(black and white)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Heart(black and white)-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Abstract(six hearts)-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 90 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,979
Sui-Generis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Just rainy XXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$995
Blue heart - XXXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,527
Heart-XV (inspired by George Orwells "1984")
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,036
Sui-Generis_IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 67 x 67 x 2 cm Painting - 26.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
N° 21.12 Éclat de lumière
Isa-L
Painting - 145 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 57.1 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$24,880
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."