Gestural abstraction
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Gathering bliss Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.3 inch
£3,110
Strange spectra 8 (iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
£4,188
Strange spectra 7 (Over bright red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
£4,188
A Lightness of Being
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£3,690
All That Boogie-Woogie
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
£3,773
Fresh Perspectives
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£3,815
Dreaming in Shades of Color
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£2,944
In Wonder and Amazement
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£3,815
Merging garden (Color intrusion)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
£3,019
When the spirit moves me
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 0.1 inch
£3,151
A patch over the atlantic
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
£2,936
Distorted forest projection
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,052
Flickering garden 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,056
Sparks (over iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,056
The inevitable conclusion (Diptych)
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1.5 inch
£3,856
Understanding pink (Spin)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
£2,845
Flickering garden 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.7 inch
£2,986
Puzzled Imagery (Red reflections)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£1,800
Distorted pond (Iridescent garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£1,800
Fiery reflections (Flourishing garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£2,654
Interference reflections (Ice)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£2,654
Catching memories (Reflections of Summer)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,317
Depths of radiance 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,317
Reflections of Autumn
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,317
Flickering Garden 5 (yellow), Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
£3,317
This side, the other shore
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£5,554
The moment of miracle happening
Sophie Qin
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£5,981
Multidimensional perspective of life
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£4,843
Embracing Life's Transience
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 105 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 41.3 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£2,044
Brief moment of light
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 78.7 x 0 inch
£8,443
Colorful silence - Claude Monet inspired
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 200 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 65 x 0 inch
£5,155
Marilyn Monroe, Make love not war #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 67 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.4 x 21.9 x 0 inch
£889
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."