Gestural abstraction
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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
€4,439
Time and Consequences
Newel Hunter
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
€2,148
Table By The Window
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€4,439
Dancing with the Devil
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
€4,486
Unanticipated Interaction
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€2,195
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
€2,071
Golden sand terrain
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
€2,081
Sky walking terrain
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
€2,081
Carmin Spectra ( Florescent garden) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 137.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 54 x 1.5 inch
€4,811
Picture Perfect (Shimmering Sky)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 1.5 inch
€2,067
Vernal garden (With Green)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
€2,415
Behind the landscape
Nestor Toro
Painting - 81.3 x 111.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 32 x 44 x 0.7 inch
€3,885
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
€2,081
Isolated forest (evening light)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€2,081
Natures luminescence 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 83.8 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33 x 31 x 0.7 inch
€2,892
Yellow reunion (Lost lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,415
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
€4,362
Natures luminescence 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 83.8 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33 x 43 x 0.7 inch
€3,369
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
€4,038
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
€3,856
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 36
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€2,892
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
€2,081
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
€4,334
Iridescent green forest 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 83.8 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33 x 31 x 0.7 inch
€3,093
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 38
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
€2,396
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
€4,811
Through golden arches 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 0.7 inch
€2,062
Daring Natural Synergy 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 114.3 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€3,054
Nighttime fearlessness 7
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 0.7 inch
€3,847
Reflections of Colors 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
€4,042
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."