Gestural abstraction
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Abstract acrylic painting
Max Yaskin
Painting - 90 x 140 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 55.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,346
Abstract J. Pollock style acrylic
Max Yaskin
Painting - 95 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,515
Els arbres ploren III
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$505
Abstract with red purple and gold
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Deep velvet indigo seascape
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,076
Fly little bird, fly
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 80 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$2,188
Azure Horizons: Where Sea and Above Collide
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$954
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Venus in 12th house
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Ethereal Harmony in Apple Green and Turquoise Blue
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,221
Papillons abstrait N°1208
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,234
Papillons N°1244
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,526
Melodie Monocromatiche - Vintage White
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Bianco puro
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Brushed Pewter
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Emergence - Burn Sienna
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Emergence - Viva magenta
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Melodie Monocromatiche - Aqua
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 22.9 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 9 x 9 x 1 inch
$350
Ode - Round Painting
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$300
Just rainy-XCIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$572
Just rainy-XCVIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$583
Just rainy-XCVII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$561
Just rainy-XCVI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.3 inch
$606
Emotional fragments-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$729
Emotional fragments-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$729
Emotional fragments-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$729
Jazzy mood-LXXIX
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$729
Abstract landscape-VII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$561
Abstract landscape-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$561
Abstract landscape-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$561
Trial to flying-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$785
Trial to flying-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$785
Trial to flying-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$785
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."