What is Neo-Expressionism?
There are a few different things that make up the definition of Neo-Expressionism. Here are some of them:
-It started in different places. In the 1960's in Europe, artists started thinking Neo-Expressionism -like thoughts as they used art to sort out how they felt about having the USA and the USSR muddle with Germany after WWII.
In the USA in the 1980's, a lot of artists were tired of minimalism. They wanted to make art that was rebellious, that was very large and took up a lot of space on the wall, that had bold brushstrokes, and that had "mythic content."
In a lot of ways, it was as if the Neo-Expressionists were looking back in time to get their ideas, to a time where art was mostly dominated by men who painted heroic subjects. A lot of them were inspired by Pablo Picasso.
Even so, the Neo-Expressionists weren't all in one happy club together, and they didn't agree on everything.
Above is a two-minute video about Markus Lupertz's exhibition at the Phillip's Collection. Markus is a German artist who started painting in a Neo-Expressionism sort of way when the Berlin Wall was still around, and has been making art ever since.
Here is (a triple) of Lupertz's Schwarz-Rot-Gold I (1974). It translates into, "Black-Red-Yellow".
He took real things (in this case a Nazi helmet) but painted them in bright colours to look a bit artificial and blurred in real life.
(Information from the textbook).
-It started in different places. In the 1960's in Europe, artists started thinking Neo-Expressionism -like thoughts as they used art to sort out how they felt about having the USA and the USSR muddle with Germany after WWII.
In the USA in the 1980's, a lot of artists were tired of minimalism. They wanted to make art that was rebellious, that was very large and took up a lot of space on the wall, that had bold brushstrokes, and that had "mythic content."
In a lot of ways, it was as if the Neo-Expressionists were looking back in time to get their ideas, to a time where art was mostly dominated by men who painted heroic subjects. A lot of them were inspired by Pablo Picasso.
Even so, the Neo-Expressionists weren't all in one happy club together, and they didn't agree on everything.
Above is a two-minute video about Markus Lupertz's exhibition at the Phillip's Collection. Markus is a German artist who started painting in a Neo-Expressionism sort of way when the Berlin Wall was still around, and has been making art ever since.
He took real things (in this case a Nazi helmet) but painted them in bright colours to look a bit artificial and blurred in real life.
(Information from the textbook).
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