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neo-expressionism
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ne·o-ex·pres·sion·ism (n-k-sprsh-nzm)
n.
An art movement based on expressionism that developed in the early 1980s in Germany, Italy, and the United States and is characterized by crudely drawn, garishly colored canvases depicting violent or erotic subject matter.
neo-ex·pression·ist adj. & n.
Neo-Expressionism
a current style emphasizing dynamism achieved by employment of sweeping curves, acute angles, and pointed arches.
See also: Architecture
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While this show concludes with work from 1981, it should perhaps be mentioned that by 1980, Bochner had moved painting from the wall onto stretched canvas with a sort of expressive, impastoed aplomb more closely associated with contemporaneous painting by a younger generation of neo-expressionists.
Mel Bochner: Marc Selwyn Fine Art by Holte, Michael Ned / Artforum International
Some likened him to the neo-Expressionists and Jean-Michel Basquiat--that is, if the neo-Expressionists and Jean-Michel Basquiat had studied with Hans Hofmann.
Avec la main gauche by Panero, James / New Criterion
It could be argued that the 20th Century Expressionists and their successors, the neo-Expressionists, found their intellectual-spiritual roots within German Romanticism.
Solutions to problems that don't exist by Kraus, Chris / C: International Contemporary Art
 
 
 
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