Gestural abstraction
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Smooth and rich
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,141
Jardin secret
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,702
Richesse et nuances
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,590
Colors moving
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,385
Voyage en couleur
Philippe Hautenauve
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,263
Plunging into our dreams
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 120 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,275
Time series: no time limits
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,875
At the edge of the water
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,325
Tender Deep Vibes - Tender sea
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 140 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,990
Exploring minimalism and vibrant contrast in brown, grey, and white (2)
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,451
When a man loves a woman
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,451
Fast Burning
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
Joyful Delivery
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$168
Sad dance or light through the rain
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
Being animal
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 32 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$213
Diversity II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.15 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$280
Le temps qui passe
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$449 $404
Athena of Liberty
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$505
Bright Love - White - White Frame
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$500 $400
A large heart iconostasis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 240 x 840 x 3 cm Painting - 94.5 x 330.7 x 1.2 inch
$89,752
La pousseuse d'horizon
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$426
I Can't Breathe II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 21.3 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.4 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$111
Happiness is indigenous
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 29.5 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$111
Sir David Attenborough
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,217
Ludwig van Beethoven
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,207
The Guitar Wizard
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,805
Jackson Pollock style acrylic
Max Yaskin
Painting - 120 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$505
Recycled
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$269
Pas dit mon dernier mot !
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$785
Petites histoires habitées
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$535
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."