Gestural abstraction
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Time and Consequences
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
£1,884
Table By The Window
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£3,893
Dancing with the Devil
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
£3,935
A Theroy of Evolution
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£1,716
Unanticipated Interaction
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£1,926
Glare garden (Purple and yellow reflections)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 66 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35 x 26 x 0.7 inch
£1,817
Golden sand terrain
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
£1,825
Sky walking terrain
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
£1,825
Carmin Spectra ( Florescent garden) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 137.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 54 x 1.5 inch
£4,220
Picture Perfect (Shimmering Sky)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 1.5 inch
£1,813
Vernal garden (With Green)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
Behind the landscape
Nestor Toro
Painting - 81.3 x 111.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 32 x 44 x 0.7 inch
£3,408
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 23
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
£1,825
Isolated forest (evening light)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
£1,825
Natures luminescence 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 83.8 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33 x 31 x 0.7 inch
£2,537
Yellow reunion (Lost lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
In early spring (A closer look)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 124.5 x 86.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 49 x 34 x 0.7 inch
£3,826
Natures luminescence 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 83.8 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33 x 43 x 0.7 inch
£2,956
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 29
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£3,542
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 35
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
£3,383
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 36
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
£2,537
Isolated forest (Morning lights) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
£1,825
Green forest (Silver lights intrusions) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 81.3 x 116.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 32 x 46 x 0.7 inch
£3,801
Iridescent green forest 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 83.8 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33 x 31 x 0.7 inch
£2,713
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 38
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,102
Somewhere in Between (Orange refractions)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 134.6 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 53 x 39 x 0.7 inch
£4,220
Through golden arches 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.7 inch
£1,809
Daring Natural Synergy 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 114.3 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£2,679
Nighttime fearlessness 7
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 0.7 inch
£3,374
Reflections of Colors 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
£3,546
Reflection of colors 5
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
Reflection of colors 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
Reflection of colors 9
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,537
Caribbean reflections 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
A matter of nature 8 (Greater Antilles)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
A matter of nature 7 (Fire lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
Caribbean reflections 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
A Matter of Nature 9 (Tropics reflections)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
£1,909
A matter of nature 10 (deep in the forest)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
Frozen in time (Iridescent colorfield)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£1,909
Caribbean reflections 6
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,118
High frequency garden 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 86.4 x 71.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 28 x 0.7 inch
£2,537
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."