Gestural abstraction
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Eternal Footprints
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,315
The Lavoisier's marriage
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,205
Éther floral en éclat d'âme
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$443
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
$277
Birds II
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$199
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
$221
Birds I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$166
Far & Deep
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$443
Diversity I
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$277
Liverpool Legends
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,532
Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,775
Indian force
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$332
Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,841
Tender Deep Vibes
Larissa Uvarova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,841
The Star Knight
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 25 x 17 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.6 inch
$332
Headspace
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$387
In the chair
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$277
Rainy erotica-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$420
Cœur Électro - Techno Contemporain de Lyrisme Abstrait coeur
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,870
Mirrored desires: A moonlit encounter
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 63 x 1.6 inch
$4,149
Rainy erotica-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$387
Portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,532
Double portrait-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,426
Portrait-II(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,532
Triple portrait-II(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$6,639
Triple portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$6,639
Double portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$6,086
Fragility and beauty of the life
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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The promise of a new dawn
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0 inch
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New chapters of your unique story (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
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Explosion de couleurs - Explosion
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
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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."