Neo-expressionism

Neo-expressionism ( gr neo = new, Latin expressio = expression ) is a style in the visual arts, which is characterized by a figurative painting of expressive color. The Neo-Expressionism emerged in the early 1960s, in turning away the dominant Informal. Instrumental in the development master students were in Germany of art schools in East and West Berlin as Georg Baselitz and Eugen Beautiful Beck.

Background

Baselitz and Beautiful Beck, who had met at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts designed in 1961 her " first Pandämonisches Manifesto "in front, where they rebelled against the established art forms and a new expressive style of painting called. Under the same title they presented their pictures in the gallery of Michael Werner and Benjamin Katz in Berlin. They reiterated their demand in a subsequent manifesto, the actual pandemonium, the "2nd Pandemonic Manifesto " in 1962. Shortly thereafter ended the cooperation between the two painters. From Informal starting, persecuted artists such as Walter Stohrer at this time similar approaches, especially in Berlin by painters such as Peter Chevalier, Rainer Fetting, Dieter Hacker, Markus Liipertz, Helmut Middendorf, as well as the founders of the Group Vision ( 1960-64 ), Karl Horst Hödicke and Bernd Koberling, have been elaborated. Also the first stylistically oriented Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer is attributed here.

The imagery usually characterized by a spontaneous, violent gestures, as subjects were used in the early days mainly skylines, where partial idea of ​​Expressionism received and have been re- rendered. In particular, the return of the painting was called for a personal and symbolic imagery. From the neo-expressionism different groupings emerged from about the late 1970s, which were covered with slogans like "Berlin Violent ", " Spontanisten " and finally " Young and Wild ", or Neue Wilde.

Outside of the Berlin art scene found the new cultural and political protest painting ironical expressions, they went from summer semester 1969 the Beuys class of the Dusseldorf Art Academy, the group " YIUP ", consisting of Hans Rogalla, Peter Angermann, Robert Hartmann, Hans Heininger and Hans Henin out whose name was a nod to the Rhenish dialect form of Beuys ' name " Joseph " ( Jupp ). From " YIUP " was formed in the mid- 1970s by Peter Anger, Jan Knap and Milan Kunc "Group Normal", the programmatic devote themselves with means of unmasking the dissolution of the boundaries between kitsch, consumerism and art and " Normal " and " the rational " perspective.

Parallel developments internationally

Correspondences can be found in Europe in France in the Figuration Libre and in the Italian Transavanguardia with artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Fernando Leal Audirac or Mimmo Paladino. In Spain, Jorge Rando regarded as the leading representative of Neo-Expressionism. In Anglo-American countries, terms such as Bad Painting, New Image Painting or Wildstyle manifested as a counter movement to concept art, with the resulting around 1980 term of Wild Style in turn represents a conceptual continuation of the European Fauvism and mostly on the painters of the New York graffiti scene using place. Known representatives are here Jean -Michel Basquiat, Chuck Connelly, David Salle and Julian Schnabel and Ronnie Cutrone, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf (the latter are sometimes referred to as "neo- pop" ).

597604
de