The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity. (wikiart.org)
Join us to create a large scale collaborative installation in our Hess Family Theater inspired by the vivid colors and gestural forms in Stella's work. (whitney.org)
The earliest paintings that I have seen by Gabriele Evertz deal primarily with gestural forms. (brooklynrail.org)