Styles & Movements |
Neo-ExpressionismNeo-Expressionism is characterized by intense subjectivity of feeling and aggressively raw handling of materials. Neo-Expressionist paintings are typically large and rapidly executed, sometimes with found objects embedded in their surfaces. They are usually figurative, often with violent or doom-laden subjects—occasionally, the image is nearly lost in the welter of surface activity. To some extent Neo-Expressionism marked a return to more traditional forms after the conceptual and minimalist experiments of the 1970s Artists associated with this movement include Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Arnold Mesches, Susan Rothenberg, and Julian Schnabel.
Artists associated with New Image painting and the Tranavantgarde
are also occasionally associated with this movement. |