Gestural abstraction
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Newel Hunter
Painting - 167.6 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
All lthe Ins and Outs
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$5,300
Taming the Dragon
Newel Hunter
Painting - 152.4 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$11,000
Running for the Border
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$6,300
Headbangers Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$9,100
Nothing But Trouble
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$5,300
Meeting in the Middle Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,250
Thinking Out Loud Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$5,250
Leaning Into It,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$14,900
Putting It Out There,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$5,300
After a winter storm
Nestor Toro
Painting - 119.4 x 94 x 1.3 cm Painting - 47 x 37 x 0.5 inch
$8,530
Emerald Panorama (Gold intrusions)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 83.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 33 x 0.7 inch
$6,050
Celeste spectra (amethysts reflections) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$20,000
Walking in my sleep
Nestor Toro
Painting - 96.5 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 38 x 70 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Somewhere in Between (Yellow and Gold)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 180.3 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 71 x 70 x 0.7 inch
$21,750
Reflection of colors 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 132.1 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 52 x 57 x 0.7 inch
$12,000
Reflection of colors 6
Nestor Toro
Painting - 162.6 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 64 x 57 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
Caribbean ocean waters
Nestor Toro
Painting - 147.3 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 58 x 43 x 0.7 inch
$8,500
Colorful display of affection 1 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$15,000
Purple Display of Affection (Blue and Silver) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 0.7 inch
$20,000
Colorful display of affection 2 / Diptych
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Tangled Up In Blue
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.7 inch
$10,000
Drizzles and Rust
Nestor Toro
Painting - 111.8 x 119.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 44 x 47 x 0.7 inch
$5,530
Sparks (Oceanfront night)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 114.3 x 106.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 45 x 42 x 0.7 inch
$7,030
Volcanic lightning (Earth formations)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 38 x 0.7 inch
$6,000
Frozen carnival (Water flow)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 188 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 74 x 0.7 inch
$14,750
Lush Greenery (Regrowth) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 182.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$20,650
Awaken to the Magic
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$4,128
Life is overwhelmingly beautiful but tragically short (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$407
Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,330
Renouveau 2
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,687
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,347
Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,687
Peau de Mur 25
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,687
Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,687
Peau de mur 19
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$4,750
Peau de mur 10
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 146 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,958
Peau de mur 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 61 x 142 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 55.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,619
Peau de mur 6
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 134 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 52.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,270
Changes are inevitable
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$3,053
Pastel Dreams 3 - Pink Abstract (Abstrait Rose)
Gina Vor
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$905
Sunset melody by M.Y.
Max Yaskin
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,527
White and Black 2 (Abstrait Blanc et Noir)
Gina Vor
Painting - 108 x 78.5 x 2 cm Painting - 42.5 x 30.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Dawn Dream Desire (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,809
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."