Gestural abstraction
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Steady as she goes
Newel Hunter
Painting - 111.8 x 88.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 44 x 35 x 0.2 inch
€5,759
Whatever, Whenever
Newel Hunter
Painting - 111.8 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€12,582
Who Am I To Say
Newel Hunter
Painting - 167.6 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 66 x 44 x 0.1 inch
€10,646
All lthe Ins and Outs
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€5,130
Taming the Dragon
Newel Hunter
Painting - 152.4 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 44 x 0.1 inch
€10,646
Running for the Border
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
€6,098
Headbangers Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€8,808
Nothing But Trouble
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€5,130
Meeting in the Middle Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€5,081
Thinking Out Loud Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€5,081
Leaning Into It,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€14,421
Putting It Out There,
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€5,130
Life is overwhelmingly beautiful but tragically short (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€360 €324
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Nikolaos Schizas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€3,387
After a winter storm
Nestor Toro
Painting - 119.4 x 94 x 1.3 cm Painting - 47 x 37 x 0.5 inch
€8,256
Emerald Panorama (Gold intrusions)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 127 x 83.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 50 x 33 x 0.7 inch
€5,856
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
€19,357
Walking in my sleep
Nestor Toro
Painting - 96.5 x 177.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 38 x 70 x 0.7 inch
€8,227
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
€21,051
Reflection of colors 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 132.1 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 52 x 57 x 0.7 inch
€11,614
Reflection of colors 6
Nestor Toro
Painting - 162.6 x 144.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 64 x 57 x 0.7 inch
€14,276
Caribbean ocean waters
Nestor Toro
Painting - 147.3 x 109.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 58 x 43 x 0.7 inch
€8,227
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
€14,518
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
€19,357
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
€5,807
Tangled Up In Blue
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.7 inch
€9,679
Drizzles and Rust
Nestor Toro
Painting - 111.8 x 119.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 44 x 47 x 0.7 inch
€5,352
Sparks (Oceanfront night)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 114.3 x 106.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 45 x 42 x 0.7 inch
€6,804
Volcanic lightning (Earth formations)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 96.5 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 38 x 0.7 inch
€5,807
Frozen carnival (Water flow)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 104.1 x 188 x 1.8 cm Painting - 41 x 74 x 0.7 inch
€14,276
Lush Greenery (Regrowth) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 182.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€19,986
Awaken to the Magic
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
€3,650 €3,285
Renouveau 8
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 65 x 154 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 60.6 x 1.2 inch
€4,200
Renouveau 13
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Renouveau 9
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 163 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 64.2 x 1.2 inch
€4,800
Renouveau 12
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,860
Peau de mur en deuil
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 180 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€4,200
Renouveau 5
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,280
Renouveau 11
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,860
Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,060
Renouveau 2
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€2,960
Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Peau de Mur 25
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Landscaping on jazz-XXIV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 17 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.7 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€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."