Gestural abstraction
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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
Liberté du Vent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
Liberté du Vent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
La Couleur d'Agir
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
Espoir dans le Vent
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
Croix Point de Croix
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$124
Réflexion Matérieuse
Jérémie Rebourgeard
Painting - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
$124
Study for Adagio Presto
Geo Hizny
Painting - 71.12 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$5,337
Spring super special offer - 40% - The Transient Palette of Sunset - Art: 110123
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 95 x 195 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 76.8 x 0 inch
$1,686
Untitled - pink marble black
Ilja Freer
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,259
Untitled - flower marble
Ilja Freer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,259
The origin of the earth
Ilja Freer
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,753
Sleeping under a tree with green leaves
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 135 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,809
Amour incandescent - Lyrisme abstrait
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,124
Fiori rosa, fiori di pesco
Marco Saporiti
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$281
Manga French
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 20 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,202
Still Life With Palette (Peinture Semi-abstraite)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 116 x 81 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
$6,068
Winning freedom !
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
$2,697
Five Summer Stories
Gaëlle Wagner
Painting - 165 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 65 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,382
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."