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Neo-Expressionism
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Neo-Expressionism

Art movement, chiefly of painters, that dominated the European and American art market in the early to mid-1980s. It was controversial both in the quality of its production and in the highly commercialized aspects of its presentation. Its practitioners, including Julian Schnabel and Anselm Kiefer, reacted to the highly intellectualized abstract art of the 1970s by creating dramatic, gestural paintings that incorporated some figurative elements and recognizable symbols. Their art was characterized by a tense yet playful presentation of objects in a “primitivist” manner, vivid colour harmonies, large scale, and a sense of inner tension and alienation. See also Expressionism.
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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.
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It could be argued that the 20th Century Expressionists and their successors, the neo-Expressionists, found their intellectual-spiritual roots within German Romanticism.
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