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Neo-ExpressionismArt 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| While this will probably entail a second look at some of the neo-expressionist stars of the early '80s, one can only hope that the trend will also generate interest in some of the less modish but more substantial painters who have been working under the radar since then. Partway through Berlin Babylon, Siegert gives us a five-second look--again, without comment--at the gleaming neo-Expressionist building that is arguably the most important of all Berlin's new architecture: the Jewish Museum, by Daniel Libeskind. It also suggests that although Sherman began her career on the post-modern image-appropriation bandwagon called Pictures Art, she has evolved into the most genuinely Neo-Expressionist artist to come out of the '80s. |
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