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Gestural abstraction
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![Painting, Threshold, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831191_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Merging garden (Color intrusion), Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830477_1_grid.jpg)
Merging garden (Color intrusion)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$3,640
![Painting, When the spirit moves me, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1830462_1_grid.jpg)
When the spirit moves me
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
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A patch over the atlantic
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$4,040
![Painting, Flickering garden, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818141_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flickering garden 2, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818138_1_grid.jpg)
Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
![Painting, Distorted forest projection, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818135_1_grid.jpg)
Distorted forest projection
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,680
![Painting, Flickering garden 3, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818132_1_grid.jpg)
Flickering garden 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,685
![Painting, Sparks (over iridescent blue), Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818129_1_grid.jpg)
Sparks (over iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,685
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The inevitable conclusion (Diptych)
Newel Hunter
Painting - 121.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 72 x 1.5 inch
$4,650
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Understanding pink (Spin)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$3,430
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Like a sunday morning
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
![Painting, Flickering garden 4, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772190_1_grid.jpg)
Flickering garden 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.7 inch
$3,600
![Painting, Puzzled Imagery (Red reflections), Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772031_1_grid.jpg)
Puzzled Imagery (Red reflections)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,170
![Painting, Distorted pond (Iridescent garden), Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772028_1_grid.jpg)
Distorted pond (Iridescent garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,170
![Painting, Sudden reflections, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772025_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fiery reflections (Flourishing garden), Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772022_1_grid.jpg)
Fiery reflections (Flourishing garden)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,200
![Painting, Interference reflections (Ice), Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1772019_1_grid.jpg)
Interference reflections (Ice)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$3,200
![Painting, Green garden, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1771986_1_grid.jpg)
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Catching memories (Reflections of Summer)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Depths of radiance 1, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1771323_1_grid.jpg)
Depths of radiance 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Reflections of Autumn, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1771317_1_grid.jpg)
Reflections of Autumn
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
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Flickering Garden 5 (yellow), Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Nestor Toro
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$4,000
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It's a perfect day
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,795
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This side, the other shore
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,988
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The moment of miracle happening
Sophie Qin
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,524
![Painting, Multidimensional perspective of life, Sophie Qin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1551768_1_grid.jpg)
Multidimensional perspective of life
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,093
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Transparency II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,298
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Silence between the lines
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,348
![Painting, On a sunny day #2, Lia Van Leeuwen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1150353_1_grid.jpg)
On a sunny day #2
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,913
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Dancing
Benjamin Vitrol Vautier Alvarez
Painting - 41 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
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Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #1
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,795
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Create From Your Heart
Darlene Watson
Painting - 203.2 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 80 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$3,765
![Painting, You have captured my heart, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045748_1_grid.jpg)
You have captured my heart
Darlene Watson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$3,916
![Painting, I've fallen for you, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045745_1_grid.jpg)
I've fallen for you
Darlene Watson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$3,916
![Painting, You put a spell on me baby, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045742_1_grid.jpg)
You put a spell on me baby
Darlene Watson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 inch
$3,916
![Painting, Autumn In The Hampton's, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045721_1_grid.jpg)
Autumn In The Hampton's
Darlene Watson
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$2,533
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Love in Santorini
Darlene Watson
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,445
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Sassy As Salt Water Taffy, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Darlene Watson
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,165
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Sassy As Salt Water Taffy 02, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Darlene Watson
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,165
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Marilyn Monroe, Make love not war #3
Volker Mayr
Painting - 67 x 55.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 26.4 x 21.9 x 0 inch
$1,118
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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."