Gestural abstraction
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Colorado River (Erosion), Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$570
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Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$2,045
Collection BUTTERFY N°1249
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$2,753
Square In Blue
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,933
An invitation to the present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,438
Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$528
A Summer Serenity
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$1,067
Super special offer - Everything is perfect Art. 270932
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$1,455
Glow of summer days (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,180
Peace and joy of summer days (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$1,180
Dans la lumiere
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$438
Magie colorée 2
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$438
Trait d'union
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.8 inch
$438
Spring super special offer - 40% - Sunset in the city
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$1,719
Untitled(N° JP112BP2)
Kyung-Ae Hur
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,742
Un simple instant
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$438
The light of the night
Eric Robin
Painting - 130 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$11,012
Previous collections - Pistachio landscape
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$1,180
Un monde à part
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$438
Un si joli petit village
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$382
Un autre regard
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$438
En toute liberté
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$438
Persona YB2302
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,569
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Cosmos
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$8,765
Transparency II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,315
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #3
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,697 $2,157
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
The very moments (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$528
Passion estivale
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 76 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,809
Hidden light - Green and purple
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,000
Poetic Landscape - Gold II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
$600
Butterfly "Eclosion" N°1259
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$899
Promeneur du jour IV
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$562
Promeneur du jour III
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$562
Promeneur du jour II
Pasturo
Fine Art Drawings - 84 x 53 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.1 x 20.9 inch
$562
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."