Gestural abstraction
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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
Abysses 72
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 70 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Beyond the rain-drenched streets #8
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,674
Abstract 2416
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$2,486 $1,740
Abstract 2414
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$2,486 $1,740
Verde para Federico
Carmen Aztibia
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$915
Dancing in Hues
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,100
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 140 x 160 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 63 x 0 inch
$1,212
La légèreté III
Sophie Mangelsen
Painting - 150 x 110 x 2.2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.9 inch
$1,563
Catalyst - Disjointed reality #12
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,953
Orgasmic - Disjointed reality #13
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,953
Contemplative - Disjointed reality #14
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,953
Yourself - Disjointed reality #15
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,953
Whimsy - Disjointed reality #17B
Kris Haas
Painting - 51 x 40 x 0.25 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,395
M - Disjointed reality #17
Kris Haas
Painting - 51 x 40 x 0.25 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,395
Not So - Disjointed reality #16
Kris Haas
Painting - 76.2 x 55.88 x 0.25 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,953
Only Present moment (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 70 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,540
Awaiting the Unseen
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 155 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 43.3 x 0 inch
$2,735
The hour in which the state of the world is changing
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
$3,907
Whispers of the Seaside Dreams (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$960
The ocean is calling and I must go
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,429
Strange Mood
Aloyzas Smilingis
Painting - 100 x 80 x 0.4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,572
Sea is a continual miracle (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,697
The Seaside Dreams (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 60 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
$1,228
Unique story (stretched) (1)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Every drop of sunrise (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,842
Canvas of Dawn (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,730
Imagination play
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$335 $301
Summer jazz-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 34 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$223 $201
Summer jazz-III
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 34 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$223 $201
Summer jazz-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$100 $90
Summer jazz-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$100 $90
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."