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The Neo-Expressionist artists depicted their subjects in an almost raw and brutish manner, newly resurrecting in their frequently large-scale works, the highly textural and expressive brushwork and intense colors that had been rejected by the immediately preceding art movements.
28 mar 2024 · Neo-Expressionism is an art movement that emerged in the late 20th century as a reaction against the minimalism and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. It is characterized by a return to figurative representation and a focus on emotional intensity and raw, gestural brushwork.
8 wrz 2021 · The Neo-Expressionism movement emerged towards the end of the 1970s and was considered both a late Modernist and early Postmodern painting and sculptural style. Developing in reaction to conceptual and minimal art, Neo-Expressionism was said to have been overtly inspired by the German Expressionist movement.
Propelled by aggressive marketing tactics, Neo-Expressionism dominated European and American art markets through the mid-1980s, and became closely associated with the period’s decadence and excess.
Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Transavantgarde , Junge Wilde or Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term).
The term "Neo-Expressionism" refers to one of the last international contemporary art movements, which emerged among late 20th century painters during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Neo-Expressionists revitalized painting with strong colours, as well as motifs drawn from Mannerism, Cubism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Surrealism, and Pop-Art.
Tate glossary definition for neo-expressionism: The international phenomenon of a major revival of painting in an expressionist manner in the 1980s
