One of several styles of Postmodernism, Neo-Expressionism is
a broad painting movement that appeared around 1980, in response to the stagnation of Minimalism and Conceptual art, whose intellectualism and self - style «purity» had dominated the 1970s but was now beginning to get on many artists» nerves.
• Neo-Expressionism (1980 onwards)
A broad painting movement, established in opposition to lack - lustre Minimalism, which made use of colour, emotion, symbolism and narrative (that is, everything that Minimalists were trying to eradicate from their own work).
Not exact matches
It is easy to
paint such
movements with a
broad brush, but people of integrity don't do such things.
And forget the
broad brush, it's a barrel bomb of
paint that splatters when «charter
movement» starts being thrown around.
De Kooning's celebrated Woman
painting series embodies the style of the
movement and consists of large - scale works characterized by
broad, almost aggressive brushstrokes.
His sophisticated layerings of varied materials call to mind the
broad expanses of color field
painting while creating a tangible experience of texture,
movement and spatial depth.
Joffe
paints with expressive fluidity, and uses
broad brush - strokes and distortions to capture personality and a sense of
movement.
Always uniquely his own, Norman's
paintings are nonetheless informed by a
broad knowledge of art history, and they reveal the influence of numerous artists, cultures, and art
movements.
Through his «map»
paintings Bowling addresses issues of history and migration, both his own as a Commonwealth immigrant to the UK and latterly the United States, and
broader mass
movements of people, from colonial slaves through the «Middle Passage» from Africa to South America, to socio - economic motivated migration.
By the 1930s, Regionalism, along with its ethical cousin Social Realism formed part of a
broad movement known as American Scene
Painting, which struck a popular chord with many people, not least because it offered a positive antidote to the gloom of The Great Depression which was ravaging the country.
The experience is extraordinary, as if they compress and release
movement individually and together, to circulate my own
movement within them always outwards — not only from the
paintings into the gallery but also from the gallery into an always potentially
broader discussion, and material experience, of bodily - felt space.
(It was the midwest version of the
broader movement known as American Scene
Painting.)
They were at the same time in
broad rapport with Neo-Expressionist
paintings without being in debt to any specific painter of that
movement.
Abstract Expressionism,
broad movement in American
painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western
painting during the 1950s.
The large - scale
painting Purple Diagonal (1980), from the «Echoing Images» series, is
painted with
broad, expressive brushstrokes in vivid colors; the encompassing echoed image lends the artists» body a sense of
movement against the deep purple background.