Gestural abstraction
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Hidden Light - Pantone Peach Fuzz
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$2,600
Verde para Federico
Carmen Aztibia
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$910
Awaiting the Unseen
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$2,719
The hour in which the state of the world is changing
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,885
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 140 x 160 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 63 x 0 inch
$1,205
La légèreté III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 150 x 110 x 2.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.9 inch
$1,554
Catalyst - Disjointed reality #12
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,942
Orgasmic - Disjointed reality #13
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,942
Contemplative - Disjointed reality #14
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,942
Yourself - Disjointed reality #15
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,942
Whimsy - Disjointed reality #17B
Kris Haas
Painting - 51 x 40 x 0.25 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,387
M - Disjointed reality #17
Kris Haas
Painting - 51 x 40 x 0.25 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,387
Not So - Disjointed reality #16
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,942
Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,532
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL85
Marcel Speet
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$444
Invisible landscape
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 101.6 x 157.5 x 20.3 cm Painting - 40 x 62 x 8 inch
$12,500
Whispers of the Seaside Dreams (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$955
The ocean is calling and I must go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,421
Strange Mood
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,552
Awaken to the Magic
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$4,051
Changes are inevitable
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$2,997
The Seaside Dreams (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$1,221
Unique story (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Every drop of sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,831
Canvas of Dawn (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,720
Nocturne-CXCXIV (homage to Chopin)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$289
Winter under the snow
Damien Berrard
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$1,221
Le grand bleu - Fifty shades of blue
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 130 x 89 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.6 inch
$2,109
Blending the elements of love.
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$4,995
New Collection! Golden Thoughts
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,550
Dance Chromatique
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$533
Irradiations n°1
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 39 x 39 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 15.4 x 0.4 inch
$533
Golden brown, white golden
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,954
Couleurs et formes du monde - Corridor in yellow
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$943
Sea is a continual miracle (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,687
Yellow Blossom
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,885
Square In Blue
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,885
An invitation to the present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,421
Fiordalisi tra il grano
Marco Saporiti
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$222
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
$2,664
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #2
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,664
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
$2,664
Rectangles de couleurs
Damien Berrard
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,998
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."