Gestural abstraction
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Branché vers Ailleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,573
Une Poignée de Lumière
Muriel Deumie
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$674
Picsou gagne toujours
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,686
Don't worry about it
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,124
Colors of happiness
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 140 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,293
Peux pas plaire à tout le monde
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 120 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$899
Unstructured emotional explosion
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$674
Mon festival de Cannes
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Dancing
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$169
Fury Future
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$449
Harmony of the zodiac: pisces/virgo axis
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,753
A symphony of golden, red, and black in circles and ovals
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,562
Chiaroscuro reverie: Elegance in monochrome and gold
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,753
Orange, brown, white and golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,090
Large Heart Iconry
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 240 x 840 x 2 cm Painting - 94.5 x 330.7 x 0.8 inch
$123,604
Nocturne CCXXXIII (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$225
L'homme animal
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$832
Musical abstractions-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$124
Just rainy-XCI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$337
Abstract landscape-XXI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 45 x 64 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$315
Abstract landscape-XX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$326
Absytract landscape-XIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$326
Abstract landscape-XVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$326
Abstract landscape-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 43 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$303
Abstract landscape-XVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 38 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15 x 21.3 x 0 inch
$270
Abstract landscape-XV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 38 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15 x 21.3 x 0 inch
$270
Abstract landscape-XIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 38 x 54 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15 x 21.3 x 0 inch
$270
Abstract landscape-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$146
Abstract landscape-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$146
Gestuaria-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 45 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$169
Jazzy mood-LXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$506
Jazzy mood-LXXVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$506
Abstract landscape-X
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$337
Abstract landscape-IX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$337
Abstract landscape-VIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$337
Abstract landscape-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 61 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 24 x 0 inch
$393
Abstract landscape-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 67 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$506
Abstract landscape-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 62 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$506
Primary palette-V
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$225
Primary palette-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 72 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 28.3 x 0 inch
$337
Nocturne-CLXXXVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$146
Landscaping-CXXXVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$146
Landscaping-CXLVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$146
Landscaping on Jazz-XVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$292
Abstract landscape-XVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$292
Just rainy-LXXIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$337
Just rainy-LXXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$483
Megaliths-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$292 $263
Megaliths-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$292 $263
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."