Gestural abstraction
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Marie Curie Sklodowska
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
Rising to the starscape
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,263
White is golden is golden is white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,329
Golden brown with golden white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 140 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,085
There’s a place in my heart
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,329
I love you so much
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 80 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,085
Where is the ocean 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,749
Tranquillizers, embrace nature in earthly colors
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,553
Monaco, Port Hercules
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,329
Iroquois II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$617
N° 21.12 Éclat de lumière
Isa-L
Painting - 145 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 57.1 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$24,682
Diversity III
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
Convergence
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41.5 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
People of desert II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 33 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$224
Major Tom
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$471
Portrait of the dark side
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 160 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,768
Eternal Footprints
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,375
The Lavoisier's marriage
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,263
Éther floral en éclat d'âme
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$449
Morning, Afternoon, Evening (Tryptic)
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 30 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$280
Birds II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$202
People of Desert I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 33 x 45.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 17.9 x 0.8 inch
$224
Birds I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$168
Far & Deep
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$449
Diversity I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$280
Liverpool Legends
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,609
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."