gestural abstraction
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But Bacon, the king of tortured, expressionistic figuration, and De Kooning, master of brashly colorful gestural abstraction, are only now being brought together by Lévy Gorvy Dayan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
He hoped to give gestural abstraction a material heft that would correspond to a viewer’s physical presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Upstairs in the resident artist’s gallery, Stephanie Lane demonstrates multiple styles of gestural abstraction.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
The members’ shows have become walled fortresses of figuration and complacent gestural abstraction.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2010
The neoimpressionist result was what Haskell calls "a degree of gestural abstraction that would not be surpassed in America until abstract expressionism."
From Time Magazine Archive
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