Gestural abstraction
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Drizzles symphony 8
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 121.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 48 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
A forest song (Faces of green) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
Red valley (Heat wave) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 3
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
A Forest Song (Faces of Green) 4
Nestor Toro
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$2,530
Moonlight Spectra 1
Nestor Toro
Painting - 50.8 x 162.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 64 x 0.7 inch
$2,860
Under the Aurora (In between frequencies) 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.7 inch
$3,030
Intricate Dreams 2 (Above Clouds)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 1.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$3,050
Strange spectra 8 (iridescent blue)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$5,050
Strange spectra 7 (Over bright red)
Nestor Toro
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$5,050
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
$2,908
Transparency II
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,431
Silence between the lines
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,442
On a sunny day #2
Lia Van Leeuwen
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,071
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$627 $565
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$628 $565
Beyond The Rain Drenched Streets #3
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 100 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,791
Passion estivale
Stephanie Rivet
Painting - 76 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$2,908
This side, the other shore
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$7,269
The moment of miracle happening
Sophie Qin
Painting - 80 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,827
Multidimensional perspective of life
Sophie Qin
Painting - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,338
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."