Gestural Painting
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Gestural Painting
Making gestures is communicating without words. It is sending a message through a certain movement, expressing ourselves with some part of our body.
In painting, the word “gestural,” which we use to speak of a resource, a technique in general, or to define a type of brushstroke, refers to the fact of transmitting emotions or a position, an attitude, even the artist’s personality, through the way they apply the paint: the abruptness or freedom of the strokes, or the violence or the “desperation” of throwing the paint on the canvas.
The brushstroke may seem careless, uncontrolled, and aleatory, but it is very precise and clear in the meaning it expresses. (Pollock himself said that his painting was not accidental or aleatory.)
It is a characteristic brushstroke of Expressionist painting (something evident since it is “pure expression”). And it gains strength when painting becomes abstract, as in European Informalism or American Abstract Expressionism. Since the figure is eliminated, the way in which the color or the stain is applied is even more decisive when “sending the message.”
Imagen: Two women in the country (1954). Willem de Kooning
Recommended links:
Abstract Expressionism, Liberation of Emotions.
Characteristic Elements of Expressionist Painting.
The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch.
The Bridge and the Tools of Expressionism.
Soutine’s Expressionist Landscape
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