Gestural abstraction
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Magenta panorama (Flowering)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Iridescent night (Purple red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Forest and light trails 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Yellow Reunion (Lost Lights) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Caribbean waters (Cool Blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Intermittent Dreams 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Intermittent Dreams 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Intermittent Dreams 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,020
Split panorama 2 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 3 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 4 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Split panorama 5 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Red valley (Heat wave)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Many miles offshore,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
Double imagery (reflective pool),
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,030
A Time To Imagine 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,025
Double Imagery (Forest Pond), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,035
Ultra radiant fire spectra
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,920
Radiant purple synergy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,920
Drizzles Ave., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,920
In Between Seasons 3,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 1.3 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.5 inch
$1,585
Where sounds disappear 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$1,670
Strange Phenomena (dos)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$1,525
Abysses 72
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,036
Jump session(Jazzy)-XIII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Jump session(Jazzy)-XII
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Autumnal mood-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,244
Imagination play-IX(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Jump session(Jazzy)-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$961
Jump session(Jazzy)-X
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$995
Couleurs et formes du monde - Lumières d'automne
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
La légèreté III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 150 x 110 x 2.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.9 inch
$1,583
Candelaria ou la femme en rose
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$905
The ocean is calling and I must go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,448 $1,332
The Seaside Dreams (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$1,244
Audrey et la Piqûre des Illusions
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$679
Imagination play-VI(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,074
Imagination play-IV(Homage to Jean Dubuffet)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,074
Whispers of the Seaside Dreams (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$973
Psychedelic flower
Damien Berrard
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,018
Branché vers Ailleurs
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,583
Sea is a continual miracle (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,719 $1,582
Unique story (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
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."