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Anarchy in the UK 7"
During the Neo-Expressionism movement, the Punk and hip-hop scene was starting up either before or during the movement. Most of the album artwork that is found from the Sex Pistols, Riot Grrrl, The Ramones, James Brown, etc., were singing out trying to start a movement against the politics. They were singing what the artists were communicating through their paintings. https://osu.pb.unizin.org/artandmusicbiographies/chapter/reading-9-neo-expressionism-and-music-reaching-into-the-1980s/ -
Neo-Expressionism
This art movement started in the late 70s during the rise of inflation and the fall of idealism. Young artists sought to bring back life and full raw emotion to art. A lot of artists used different mediums and various techniques to paint.
Also known as Transavantgardia or New Fauve -
Cafe Deutschland (Style War)
Jorg Immendorff, a German artist, who is best known for his Cafe Deutschland (1977-1984) series.In this series, he depicts colorful crowded bars/cafes that represent conflicting ideologies between West and East Germany. Immendorff focuses on integrating social activism into his art and asking how art and the artist can help make a difference.
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
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Untitled "Skull"
Jean-Michel Basquiat, a Brooklyn artist, who focused on social commentary and dichotomies as his subject matter, like poverty vs wealth; interaction vs. segregation. Basquiat liked to paint mostly on skateboard decks. This piece represented NYC and being a Haitian and Puerto-Rico immigrant. His works of art have sold at $10M.
Acrylic and crayon on canvas.
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Adieu
Georg Baselitz, a German artist, who became one of the lead figures in the Neo-Expressionism movement sought to overcome “normal” representation of his subjects. His art is most known for having his subjects painted upside and forcing the viewer to focus on the background, especially the lines and grids. His art addresses identity issues of Germany after WWII.
Oil on canvas, painted over a few weeks during daylight.
https://www.moma.org/artists/366 -
Urd, Verdani, Skuld (The Norns)
Anselm Kiefer incorporates alchemy and the Holocaust through his paintings to bring forth emotion of Germany's tragic past. The Norns refer to the past, present, and future in German mythology. Keifer uses oil paint, shellac, emulsion, and fibre on canvas as a more compelling method to bring emotion out.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kiefer-urd-verdandi-skuld-the-norns-ar00036 -
A Visit To / A Visit From / The Island
Eric Fischl, an American painter, who brings forth disturbing elements of the daily American life. In this piece, he paints two beach scenes where one shows white and rich Americans sunbathing with no worries, while on the other side refugees trying to find help.
Oil on Canvas.
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Piu vicino agli dei (Closer to the Gods)
Enzo Cucchi, the main Italian transavantgarde member, paints large vast pieces that usually have a poetic verse accompanying it, specifically written by Cucchi. In this piece, he liked to eliminate the horizon as to cause more of a vast and deep space. He creates a world outside of our own in attempts to make us uncomfortable to get us to notice that there is evil in the world.
Oil on canvas.
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The Walk Home
Julian Schnabel, an American artist, who liked to use different objects to help convey his ideas. He works to create 3D pieces that introduce human emotion back to art.
"My paintings take up room, they make a stand. People will always react to that. Some people get inspired, others get offended. But, that's good. I like that," said Schnabel.
Oil, plates, copper, bronze, fiberglass and Bondo on six wood panels.
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Breath Man
Susan Rothenberg, an American artist, who is known for her use of abstract and figurative forms. She mostly paints in muted colors but looks for a way to bring out human form. In this piece, she uses drypoint etching to bring out different characteristics. She finds a way to make the viewer know that these are the way things can't always be.
I'm drawn to this picture because of it's chaos. It's almost a self-portrait of my life.
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Demonic Roland
David Salles, an American artist, who likes to take different paintings, photos, and add elements to them to create a new collage of work. In this piece, it depicts two working men in a depression-era. He draws influence from literary works of art, this one, in particular, refers to the Song of Roland. A paradox that captures the detached view of an onlooker. Most of the pieces make viewers come up with their own interpretation. Acrylic and oil on canvas. https://www.thebroad.org/art/david-salle -
Catherine
Frank Auerbach, is most known for his almost incomprehensible designs that capture a person or place. His paintings or sketchings have a very fluid look that takes on a look of abstract but allows depth and emotion to come through. To me these pieces look almost like a single drawn line.
Etching on Somerset white paper.
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Peace
Robert Combas, a Figuration Libre artist, uses lots of bright colors and black lines to distinguish them yet have them juxtapositioned. With the French neo-expressionism mouvement, they use brighter colors and draw from every day objects unlike the gritty and darkness from the Americans, Germans and Italians. What I love about it is they all have the same goal: to break down social hiearchy and bring awarness to every day life -- just in different ways. -
Bread and Wine
Sandro Chia, an Italian Transvanguardia, worked in bright colors with sweeping movements that were sometimes violent. He treated each canvas like clay, trying to reanimate a subject piece.
Litograph in color
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Hommage a Greta Garbo
Remi Blanchard, one of the four founders of the Figuration Libre movement in France, fought to keep art more conventional and out of the social hierarchy. The French movement, like the New Fauves, Transavanguardias, and the Neo-Expressionism sought to bring out emotions and political injustice. With the French, they used more colors and broad black lines to keep it almost child-like. Most of Blanchard's works were destroyed in a fire.
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Le dejeuner sur l'herbe
Francois Boisrond, a French artist, who started the Figuration Libre, showing parrel and similar drives with the Neo-Expressionism in America; it was a way to offset the need of "good taste" and mediocrity. A lot of his art shows deep black lines that shape everyday objects. He shows pure everyday objects can be aesthetically pleasing, creating a new freshness to art.
Canvas
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Untitled "Skull"
Markus Lupertz, a German New Fauve, is often known for his expressive paintings and sculptures that use abstraction and representation. He likes to combine pop culture, Germany's history, biblical and mythological themes into his paintings. With this particular piece, it's almost soothing to look at, something I can't quite explain. It's intricate with detail and it reminds me of book cover.
Gouache, pastel and ink on paper.
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/markus-lupertz-untitled-skull -
How Low Can You Go
Marlene Dumas uses a lot of watercolor and dark colors to bring forth difficult subjects, such as pornography and segregation. She wants the expression and emotion to come out as the main subject in what she captures.
Ink and Arcylic on paper
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/marlene-dumas-how-low-can-you-go -
Untitled
John Copeland, an American artist, is known for dripping paint everywhere on his pieces. With his magazine pieces, he likes to add paint in different areas to get the subject to blend into the background -- attempting to break up solid lines into the abstract realm. I enjoy his pieces because while he's taking previous art, he is adding his little touch. Giving it an abstract look, which is almost cathartic.
Oil & acrylic on magazine cover
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/john-copeland-untitled-30 -
Untitled (Where Have All The Good Times Gone?)
Walter Dahn was apart of a group that took neo-expressionism and created a figurative style that used a lot of colors to oppose the minimalistic and the conceptual art. A lot of his pieces incorporate bright colors despite the subject matter.
I've always liked silkscreen on fabric, especially with an abstract look.
Gouache and silk screen on fabric
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/walter-dahn-untitled-where-have-all-the-good-times-gone
