neo-expressionism

American  

[nee-oh-ik-spresh-uh-niz-uhm] / ˌni oʊ ɪkˈsprɛʃ əˌnɪz əm /

Or Neo-Expressionism

noun

1. an art movement, chiefly in painting, that developed in Germany, Italy, and the U.S. in the late 1970s, emphasized large heavy forms and thick impasto, and typically dealt with historical narrative in terms of symbolism, allegory, and myth.

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Other Word Forms

• neo-expressionist noun

Etymology

Origin of neo-expressionism

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

She considers her art as neo-expressionism, in which she focuses on abstract commentary on real-life situations and characters, with a bent toward humor.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021

You could blame the fact that his idiom — neo-expressionism — came in and out of fashion in the 1980s and never convincingly re-emerged.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2018

By the end of the ’70s, however, artists’ fascination with technology was fading with the rise of neo-expressionism, which signaled an ebbing of interest in performance art, conceptualism and anything that smacked of cybernetics.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2015

He is there, like Zelig, walking beside expressionism and neo-expressionism, various tides of fanciful romantic figuration and colourful abstraction.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2010

Yet the word neo-expressionism is misapplied to American art in the '80s.

From Time Magazine Archive