Gestural abstraction
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Overwhelmingly beautiful life (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Inside David Attenborough's Pocket Watch
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,448
Summer Etude (1)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 39 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,007
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 150 x 180 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 70.9 x 0 inch
$1,346
Enchanted Glade
Gaëlle Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,356 $2,120
The Childhood of Chaos 10 original masterpiece O Kloska (1977)
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,346
Renouveau 12
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,209
El verano trae tanto
Carmen Aztibia
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$651
Imagination play-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,066 $959
Strange Phenomena (dos)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$1,525
Melodie Monocromatiche - Classic Blue
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$500
Explosion de couleurs - Smashed 4
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 90 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
$2,188
Irradiations 5
Rita Vandenherrewegen
Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$426
Shaple Pompoulaine SHPL87
Marcel Speet
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$858
Manga French
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 20 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,200
Playful - Disjointed reality #11
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,963
Conexions lunars que venen de rapsodia en colors
Tatiana Blanqué
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
New Collection Treasure
Caroline Vis
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,609
Balancing Act 2
Tracey Adams
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 50.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20 inch
$1,701
Composition 7-24
Jean François Guelfi
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$449
May the Gods still accept...
Pasturo
Sculpture - 240 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 94.5 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$1,795
Abstract n° 1146
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,693
Nude in Red (Nue Edition)
Aloyzas Smilingis
Print - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Gestures
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$673
Portrait
Stanislav Bojankov
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$118
Without identity
Maurizio Gracceva
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 72 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 28.3 x 0 inch
$1,683
Into the Flow II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,019
Higher
Sandra Szaja
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,122
Movement | Bronze Sculpture
Aloyzas Smilingis
Sculpture - 33 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 13 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
$9,536
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."