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.”
Nikolaos Schizas
A different place, 2022 39.4 x 63 inch Painting
$4,736
Âme Sauvage
Les vibrations de la musique, 2022 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch Painting
$830
Nadine Antoniuk
The pulse of the world, 2020 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,244
Tic
Dédale, 2022 65 x 66.9 inch Painting
$1,296
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Sophie Mangelsen
[Sub]conscious - II, 2022 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch Painting
$1,224 $1,040
Muriel Deumie
Fast and furious, 2022 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch Painting
$923
Daniela Pasqualini
Linen Light, 2022 12 x 12 x 1 inch Painting
$400
Hong Jakubke-Qin
Wonderful World, 2022 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch Painting
$1,659
Stephanie Rivet
Entre l'ombre et la lumière, 2022 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch Painting
$4,106
Stanislav Bojankov
Just rainy-LXXXI, 2022 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,400
Ilja Freer
Metamorphosis, 2022 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch Painting
$995
Éric Mercier Sevin
Exposition, 2011 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch Painting
$518
Caroline Vis
Papillon Purple, 2022 11.8 x 13.8 x 14.6 inch Sculpture
$2,800
Marta Zawadzka
Twiggy, 2022 63 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch Painting
$4,355
Gina Vor
Line 1, 2019 11.6 x 8.4 x 0.1 inch Fine Art Drawings
$104
Gina Vor
Sea Life 2, 2018 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch Painting
$207
VeraD
Dive in Pi, 2022 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch Painting
$1,866
Yichao Sun
Bulles, 2021 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch Painting
$1,866
Eric Robin
Big Box 02.08.22, 2022 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch Painting
$726
Éric Mercier Sevin
Confusion, 2014 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch Fine Art Drawings
$446
Allias
Fragment, 2021 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,244
Caroline Vis
Red Power - New Collection XL, 2022 66.9 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch Painting
$10,887
Muriel Deumie
Années 20, 2022 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch Print
$705
Cosmos
The Flow Master, 2022 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch Painting
$5,184
Rafael Sliks
Black attitude!, 2022 55.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch Painting
$7,154
Riccardo di Cosmo
Photograms 2, 2020 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$2,281
Paul Ygartua
Fragmented Reality, 2021 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch Painting
$7,569
Tracey Adams
Balancing Act 2, 2016 26 x 20 inch Fine Art Drawings
$1,599
Tracey Adams
Sattva 39, 2021 34 x 26 inch Painting
$3,198
Greet Helsen
Color spots III, 2014 15.7 x 15.7 inch Painting
$1,107
H-Nguyen
Lights behind, 2022 28.7 x 39.4 inch Painting
$1,306
Stanislav Bojankov
Fragments-II, 2020 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch Print
$1,141
Shirley Goldfarb
Sans titre, 1962 5.1 x 7.9 inch Painting
$3,111
Aloyzas Smilingis
Nude in Red (Nue Edition), 1965 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Print
$1,037
Anne-Marie Gintrand (Mag)
Abstrait - A05, 2005 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,037
Gonzalo Páramo
Paperstry 9.20, 2020 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch Painting
$881
Laura Newman
Frames, 2016 22 x 15 inch Painting
$3,075
Emilio Vedova
Ruptura, 1977 27.8 x 19.7 inch Print
$933
Matt Kirby
City, 2022 47.2 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,027
Gabriela Lavezzari
Paixao, 2021 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch Painting
$3,100
Muriel Deumie
Nougayork, 2021 11.8 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch Photography
$881
Jo Sada
Blue reflexion 2, 2020 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch Painting
$102
Lia Van Leeuwen
Round & Round IV, 2017 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,503
Pasturo
Cochonnerie, 2019 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch Painting
$933
Bust the drip
Homomotus #1, 2022 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch Print
$311
Veronika Rokashevich
It's Ok, 2021 27.6 x 27.6 inch Painting
$1,244 $995
Maurizio Gracceva
Without identity, 2017 40.6 x 28.3 x 0 inch Fine Art Drawings
$1,555
Said Ouarzaz
Ahmar, 2012 14.2 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch Painting
$819
Pasturo
13.11.15, 2015 82.7 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch Sculpture
$1,555
Isa-L
N°190, 2019 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$954
Guzide Gunduz
Interdependency in Nature N°15, 2017 23.6 x 59.1 inch Painting
$1,659
Rafael Sliks
Julie I, 2017 39.4 x 28 inch Print
$1,165
Muriel Deumie
Passage équilibré, 2021 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch Sculpture
$881
Senero
73, 2017 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,244
John3seven
Seen from above, 2018 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch Painting
$881
Renske van der Wal
3.Renske, 2020 42.3 x 53.3 x 2 inch Painting
$1,866
Âme Sauvage
Un amour de chien, 2022 10.2 x 4.7 x 9.1 inch Sculpture
$435
Aloyzas Smilingis
Movement | Bronze Sculpture, 1990 13 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch Sculpture
$8,813
Eusebio Lopez
Sin titulo, 2017 27.6 x 39.4 inch Painting
$2,281
Bust the drip
Décalée, 2020 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Painting
$3,007
Victoria Horkan
Blossom Me Happy, 2020 17.7 x 38.6 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,722
Maurizio Gracceva
Composition, 2010 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch Painting
$933
Aloyzas Smilingis
Stripes, 2014 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch Painting
$3,836
Caroline Vis
Art Painting/ Art Table "Deep Blue", 2022 53.9 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch Design
$3,629
Vahid Mohammadi
Variations n°31, 2018 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch Painting
$3,111
Stanislav Bojankov
Presentiment-XIV, 2020 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch Fine Art Drawings
$207
Muriel Deumie
Quand certains, 2019 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch Fine Art Drawings
$425
Milo
La vague rose, 2019 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$840
Philippe Hautenauve
Square and no limit, 2017 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch Painting
$5,081
Victoria Horkan
Forever Into The Sea, 2020 25.6 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch Print
$369
Pasturo
Sans titre, 2020 33.1 x 20.9 inch Fine Art Drawings
$363
Sylvie Adaoust
Techno contemporain coeurs, 2019 59.1 x 59.1 x 1 inch Painting
$5,070
Geo Hizny
Three of a Kind, 2009 33 x 69 x 0.4 inch Painting
$3,198
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