| Neo-Expressionism is an art movement that took place in the 1980s in both Europe and the United States. Neo-Expressionists portrayed the human body and other recognizable objects in reaction to the remote highly intellectualized abstract art production of the late 1970s. They often rejected traditional standards of composition and design, instead they often used a brittle emotional tone that reflected contemporary urban life and values, they showed a lack of concern for pictoral idealization, they used vivid but jarringly banal color harmonies, and used a simultaneously tense and playful presentation of objects in a primitivist manner taht communicates a sense of inner disturbance, tension, and alienation. Some of the great artists of the movement include Julian Schnabel, Sandro Chia, and Anselm Kiefer. |