Gesture in the picture

In this thesis I summarized and examined the field of gestural painting. I followed the starting methods of paiting in the Renaissance and gestural painting up to the 20th century. I tried to find a way how to link those contents with the teaching curriculums at various educational levels. The theory, as the main part of this thesis, covers the early European Renaissance period and the period of Jackson Pollock. I examined: the content differences among works of art from those two periods, in what way the works of art were depicted and the painting through its gestuality. The main part of this thesis explores the area of gestural painting all the way to the Abstract Expressionism. The thesis is also based on practical work. In my own personal research of painting, in seventh and eighth semester, I depicted abstract with strongly emphasized gesturality. I was particularly interested in the dripping technique, so I incorporated this concept in my teaching curriculum for the seventh, eighth an ninth grade students of primary school. The pedagogical part includes a lesson plan, reproduction of works from the students and analysis of students' performance