neo-expressionism

(noun)

A style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s; characterized by portraying recognizable objects like the human body in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color harmonies.

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  • Neo-Expressionism

    • Neo-Expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.
    • Related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the 60s and 70s, the Bay Area Figurative School of the 50s and 60s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting, and precedents in Pop painting, Neo-Expressionism developed as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalist art of the 1970s.
    • Hal Foster stated that Neo-Expressionism was complicit with the conservative cultural politics of the Reagan-Bush era in the U.S..
    • Félix Guattari disregarded the "large promotional operations dubbed 'Neo-Expressionism' in Germany" as an example of a "fad that maintains itself by means of publicity" and as too easy of a way for him "to demonstrate that postmodernism is nothing but the last gasp of modernism. "
    • Critique the controversies around Neo-Expressionism related to marketability, celebrity, feminism, and intellectualism.

  • Painting

    • During the 1950s and 1960s, forms of Geometric expression including Hard-edge painting and Frank Stella's work in Geometric abstraction emerged as reaction against the subjectivism of Abstract expressionism.
    • Neo-Expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.
    • It's also seen as a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting.
    • Neo-Expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects like the human body in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colors and banal color harmonies.
    • The return to the traditional art forms of sculpture and painting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, often seen in the work of Neo-Expressionist artists like Georg Baselitz and Julian Schnabel, has been described as one of the first coherent movements to emerge in the postmodern era.

  • Modern Sculpture

    • He is known for turning away from the idealized traditions of the Greeks and decorative beauty of the Baroque and Neo-Baroque movements, thereby departing with centuries of tradition.

  • Experiments in Latin America

    • Beginning with Surrealism and Muralism after World War I, artistic styles evolved toward abstract expressionism, geometric designs, and social commentary through artwork.
    • The two groups differed about what constituted abstract art: the São Paulo contingent stressed reason, serial form, and optical effects; the neo-concrete artists of Rio de Janeiro accorded a higher value to the role of experimentation, expressiveness, and subjectivity.

  • European Postwar Expressionism

    • One of the biggest contributing factors to this shift was the advent of Abstract Expressionism, a decidedly American movement that is often cited as the first American avant-garde.
    • Visionary figures like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman epitomized Abstract Expressionism in New York, but a similar concern for Expressionism was present in the work of many important European artists in the aftermath of WWII.
    • Unlike American Expressionism, which was more abstract, many European painters maintained the primacy of the figure in their work.
    • Tachisme is often regarded as the closest European equivalent to American Abstract Expressionism, and can be characterized by spontaneous brushwork, drips and blobs of paint applied directly from a tube, and, occasionally, a scribbling reminiscent of calligraphy.
    • Serge Poliakoff painted in the French tachisme style of Art Informel, an abstract movement which is often considered to be the European counterpart to Abstract Expressionism.

  • The Development of Abstract Expressionism

    • Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.
    • Abstract expressionism has many stylistic similarities to the Russian artists of the early 20th century such as Wassily Kandinsky.
    • Abstract expressionism expanded and developed the definitions and possibilities that artists had available in the creation of new works of art.
    • Although Abstract expressionism spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York and California.
    • His works, such as The Liver is the Cock's Comb, The Betrothal II, and One Year the Milkweed, immediately prefigured abstract expressionism.

  • Art Informel in Europe

    • Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, Art Informel is often considered to be the European equivalent to American abstract expressionism.
    • Popular in the 1940s and 1950s, it is often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract expressionism, although there are stylistic differences (for example, abstract expressionism is often described as being more raw and aggressive than tachisme).
    • Abstract expressionism was a school of painting in the United States that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s.
    • Compare the European postwar movement of Art Informel to American abstract expressionism.

  • The Song Dynasty

    • The Song Dynasty was highly influenced by Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, which were reflected in their art.
    • Buddhism also had a profound influence upon the budding movement of Neo-Confucianism, led by Cheng Yi (1033–1107) and Zhu Xi (1130–1200).
    • Although the Neo-Confucianists were critical of Taoism and Buddhism, the two did have an influence on the philosophy, and the Neo-Confucianists borrowed terms and concepts from both.
    • The influence of both Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism can be seen in a great deal of the artwork at the time, including the painted artwork of Lin Tinggui's Luohan Laundering.
    • Discuss the significance of Neo-Confucianism and literature on the art of the Song dynasty.

  • Neo-Babylonia

    • The Neo-Babylonian Empire developed an artistic style motivated by their ancient Mesopotamian heritage.
    • The Neo-Babylonian Empire, also known as the Chaldean Empire, was a civilization in Mesopotamia that began in 626 BC and ended in 539 BC.
    • The Neo-Babylonian period was a renaissance that witnessed a great flourishing of art, architecture, and science.
    • Most of the evidence for Neo-Babylonian art and architecture is literary.
    • A prominent characteristic of Neo-Babylonian art and architecture was the use of brilliantly colorful glazed bricks.

  • German Expressionism

    • German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning before WWI and peaking in Berlin during the 1920s.
    • Expressionism was a modernist movement, beginning with poetry and painting, that originated in Germany at the start of the 20th century.
    • Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War and remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin.
    • The twisted body shapes and expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.
    • Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early Expressionism.