Gestural abstraction
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Green Everywhere (Caribbean dream)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
£649
Reimagined panorama 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
£645
Reimagined panorama 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
£645
Reimagined panorama 4,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
£645
Reimagined panorama 2,
Nestor Toro
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
£645
Suspends Ton Vol #4
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,887
Gestural enigmatic still life abstract pot with flowers Kloska
Ovidiu Kloska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£899
Sueños (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£3,594
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£5,200
Don't close your eyes
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 80.7 x 0 inch
£3,100
Iridescent Drizzles (Rain in pink)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 116.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 46 x 0.7 inch
£7,193
Looking for Anomalies
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£3,753
The Girl in My Dreams
Newel Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
£3,500
Giving Voice to It
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£4,259
Redhead with Highlights
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
£2,825
All the Dos & Don'ts
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£2,193
Spontaneous Combustion
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£3,711
Riding a Pale Horse
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£4,259
Artifacts Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£3,373
Lost Cause Triptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 142.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 56 x 1.5 inch
£4,259
Flights of Fancy2
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
£3,795
Anata and Watashi (You & Me)
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£3,921
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."