It was overtly inspired by German Expressionist painters, such as Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, James Ensor and Edvard Munch. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way, often using vivid colors. Neo-expressionism developed as a reaction against conceptual art and minimal art of the 1970s. It is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Transavantgarde, Junge Wilde or Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones' 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term). Image source: :’Musica_Ebbra’,_painting_by_Enzo_Cucchi,1982.jpg The IDLENESS OF SISYPHUS, SandroChia, 1981,Permanent collection of MoMA, New York.Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early- postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. ‘Musica_Ebbra’, painting by Enzo Cucchi,1982. To talk about their art, Oliva used the term “ Transavanguardia”. Titled “ Le Stanze”, was about the show hosting a small group of young painters whose works seemed to have recalled the Expressionist painting at a time when Conceptual art ruled art tendencies. In 1979, Italian art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva worked at an introduction for an exhibition he organized in the town of Genazzano. Image source: by (Norman Rosenthal,The Guardian, 2007) Neo Expressionism in Italy by Georg Baselitz, Nachtessen in Dresden 1983. It passed to describe a group of younger artist, followers of a “screaming” and gestural painting, with violent and dissonant tones.

Sometimes the term is also employed with international Neo-expressionism. The word includes neo-expressive German art of the 1980s, the most relevant cities for the movement were Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. Neuen Wilden, or “New Savages”, was a group of German expressionist painters, active in the eighties in Berlin and Germany. Galerie Michael Schultz, Art Exhibition of German Neo-Expressionism. It was featured with a return to figuration in expressive, gestural, and sometimes brashly aggressive art pieces. Neo-Expressionism spreaded through all of Germany, where new generations felt the need to distinguish themselves from a past of horror constituted by the undeniable acts of the Nazi regime during the war. Image source: by corno.fulgur75 MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (1998–2010), Rome, Italy. MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (1998–2010), Rome, Italy. Hadid’s designs are characterized by their dynamic formal qualities of sinuously, curving lines.

She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. TWA Flight Center Open House NYC- Eero Saarinen’s 1962ĭame Zaha Mohammad Hadid is the undisputed queen of contemporary iconic architecture. His most important commission was the TWA Flight Center, which can be considered the apex of his previous works and a demonstration his neo-expressionist art and the technical marvel in concrete shells. Image source: by Peking.Duck Masters of Neo-ExpressionismĮero Saarinen started his career with an apprenticeship and partnership with his father. Its structures tend to be unique works of their creators.It tends to stay away from geometric rigour.

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