Gestural abstraction
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IN SHADES OF PINK
Juliana Haggoo
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,790
A Smile On The Face Of The Tiger
Volker Mayr
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,718
Révolution française 2018
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$816
J'aime pas les maths
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
La symphonie de la nature
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$783
Rêverie d'automne
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$995 $796
Collection privée - "Smashed oil"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
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Collection privée - "Hidden and smashed portrait"
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$872
Melodie Monocromatiche - Vintage White
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Bianco puro
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Brushed Pewter
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Emergence - Viva magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Aqua
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Ode - Round Painting
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$300
Sans Titre 9 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 111 x 111 x 3 cm Painting - 43.7 x 43.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,230
Nouvelles directions, n°5
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Nouvelles directions, n°3
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Sans Titre 33 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Sans Titre 25 (Prophéties d'un monde qui fuit)
Arnaud Gautron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Cultural Heart
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,200 $1,650
La ronde de l'innocence - Enfants du monde
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 50 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,561
Les fées de l'élégance céleste - le mouvement dans la danse
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,561
Gainsbourg et Jane
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,237
Protect the Children
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,007 $906
Bright Love - Teal & Golden II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500
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."