Gestural abstraction
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Los cuatro vientos
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€2,800
Happy morning time (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€1,550
Open your heart (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 40 x 120 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.6 inch
€620
Precious Moments
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€3,400
Jump session(Jazzy)-XI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€800 €720
Jump session(Jazzy)-X
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€800 €720
Imagination play-VI
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€950 €855
Abstract 2422
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€2,430 €1,701
Moonlight (stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
Big heart (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
€4,200
Be kind (Stretched)
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 114 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
€4,200
Dream without limits
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 150 x 97 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 38.2 x 0 inch
€4,550
Outside the box
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 205 x 105 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€4,550
Claude Monet's Water lilies
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€4,450
Deep Sea Inside Me
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
€6,317
Time for change (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 150 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 0.6 inch
€680
Todo Se Conecta
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€4,009
A Theroy of Evolution
Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€1,983
Modern spectra and lights (With Teal)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
€1,190
Evergreen Garden (Silver lights)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€1,257
Like nothing else (Experimental garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
€1,257
Forest and light trails
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 66 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35 x 26 x 0.7 inch
€1,934
Natures imagery (scattering colors) 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.5 inch
€1,905
Waterflow (Night Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,954
Frozen Waterflow (Ice ponds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,954
Daydream panorama (Natures Imagery) 32
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,954
Orange lights and shadows
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€996
Crystalline dawn panorama
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€1,963
Coral Sunset (Red Reflection)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 88.9 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35 x 28 x 0.1 inch
€1,693
High frequency garden 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 86.4 x 71.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 34 x 28 x 0.7 inch
€1,644
Magenta panorama (Flowering)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Iridescent night (Purple red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Forest and light trails 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.7 inch
€987
Caribbean energy (Summer flare)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Yellow Reunion (Lost Lights) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Caribbean waters (Cool Blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Intermittent Dreams 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Intermittent Dreams 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Intermittent Dreams 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€987
Split panorama 2 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€996
Split panorama 3 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€996
Split panorama 4 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€996
Split panorama 5 (Action divided)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€996
Red valley (Heat wave)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
€996
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."