Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
NEO-EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
A resurgence of interest in Expressionism, Pop art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and other movements gained steam among artists of the 1970s and ’80s, in part as a reaction to the austerity of the prevailing minimalism and Conceptual art of the era. A decadent, bold and brash art style called Neo-Expressionism saw painters returning to figural representation, creating highly textured works that were imbued with intensely personal narratives.
Neo-Expressionist paintings are sensuous in nature and highly subjective in meaning. Expressive brushwork, highly pigmented colors and layered forms and materials lent sculptural attributes to the work and were used to depict symbolic narratives from history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience.
Prominent figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat led the Neo-Expressionist movement in the United States with paintings and prints that were raw, emotional and often violent in nature. In Germany, Die Neuen Wilden (the “New Fauves”) was the name given to a group of postwar artists that included the likes of sculptor Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, a painter and photographer who explored the possibilities of both abstraction and realism, sometimes in a single piece. The work of the New Fauves — labeled as such for its return to Fauvism’s textured brushwork and use of vibrant colors — shares commonalities with Neo-Expressionism, and Baselitz was a pioneer of the movement in Europe. In addition, Willem de Kooning’s pulsating action paintings and Julian Schnabel’s experimentation with the materiality of paintings also took shape during this period.
“I was trying to make paintings different from the paintings that I saw a lot of at the time, which were mostly minimal, and they were highbrow and alienating, and I wanted to make very direct paintings that most people would feel the emotion behind when they saw them,” said Basquiat.
Neo-Expressionism generated some polarizing opinions, with some celebrating the revival of personal subjectivity in art while others criticizing the movement for being too commercially driven and nostalgic. But most experts agree that Neo-Expressionism was a huge commercial success and culturally impactful, paving the way for the postmodern work of artists like Richter and Sigmar Polke.
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Style: Neo-Expressionist
TIME TRAVEL
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Permanent Marker, Acrylic, Watercolor
SKULL CAT
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Ink, acrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Permanent Marker
Swimming jellyfish, fractal painting, naturalistic trompe l'oeil, water animals
Located in Carballo, ES
Black Neoexpressionist Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2018. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 65 x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Handmade Paper
WITH CATS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic markers, ink on paper.
Unframed.
The painting will be shipped directly from Thailand – safely and promptly."
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Holy Fire, Abstract Expressionist Figurative Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
A unique abstract expressionist pastel drawing by an unknown artist. Depicting a mans face as the focal point with what appears to be chu...
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Mid-20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pastel, Cardboard
MERMAID SONGS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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MAGIC CAT
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Loud Color, Expressionist Drawing on Watercolor Paper in Vivid Tones, Text Art
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Wax Crayon, Watercolor
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Abstract Expressionist
Located in Carballo, ES
Black And White Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Handmade Paper
Woman Cradling Man - Expressionistic Figure Pastel Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman Cradling Man - Expressionistic Figure Pastel Drawing
Dynamic and intriguing drawing of two figures, a woman in red and a man in blue, by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995)....
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20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Laid Paper
Untitled (Basketball Players) Original Study Drawing #2 by Joan Carl Strauss
Located in Pasadena, CA
Joan Carl Strauss was a Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and civic voice whose prolific work spans sculpture, painting, and public commissions. A graduate of the Art Institute of ...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
POETRY OF LOVE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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MOON
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic on cardboard paper.
Unframed.
Ships securely and well protected from Spain. art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Untitle Study ("Basketball Players") Drawing #1 by Joan Carl Strauss
Located in Pasadena, CA
Joan Carl Strauss, artist and activist in the Los Angeles art world, left behind a refined and committed body of work. Trained in Cleveland and at the Art Institute of Chicago, she d...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
SHOULD I STAY IN or GO OUT? Signed Oil Pastel, Seated Man Surreal Interior Scene
Located in Union City, NJ
SHOULD I STAY IN or GO OUT? is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper
Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
ABSTRACT FACES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic markers, ink on cartboard paper.
Unframed.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
LONG WALKS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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ADVENTURE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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"Albero" by E. Wenk, 2020-22 - Pencil on Paper, Abstract Tree, Still-life
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Tree"
Pencil on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
It's been drawn in one go, with no erasure and with a continuou...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
"Composizione" by E. Wenk, 2020-21 - Watercolor and Acrylic Paint, Abstract
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Composition".
Watercolor and acrylic paint on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single dra...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
NIGHT ADVENTURE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic markers, ink on paper
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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FLY
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic, markers, ink on watercolor paper.
Unframed.
Ships securely and well protected from Spain.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Assemblage of inflatable paint islands silkscreen printing on paper, tapestry
Located in Carballo, ES
Work belonging to the latest exhibition of the Manolo Eirin contemporary art gallery in A Coruña, Spain.
The work is a drawing made by the artist for the exhibition using the assemb...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Cotton Canvas, Printer's Ink, Archival Paper
mountains of fabric, textured green with silkscreen paint full of folds & layers
Located in Carballo, ES
This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Canvas, Cotton, Polymer
QUEEN OF THE ABSURD
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Ink on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Permanent Marker
Figure in White. Seated while suited male Figure on couch black and white tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on archival black toned paper signed and dated by the artist on the bottom right corner. This work requires framing under glass for long term preservation.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Archival Paper
HAPPY TOGETHER
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic, ink on watercolor paper.
Unframed.
Ships securely and well protected from Spain.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
HAPPY TOGETHER
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Ink, acrylic on wotercolor paper.
The magic flow reality...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Permanent Marker
Black painting, water and plants, fractals, organic landscape, golden spiral
Located in Carballo, ES
Black Neoexpressionist Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2018. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 65 x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Handmade Paper
Empty and full, informalist painting with natural pigments on cotton with frame
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried for a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Organic Material, Wood, Varnish, Cotton Canvas
Contemporary blue painting on paper, Calm Seascape, Abstract Expressionist
Located in Carballo, ES
This is an original artwork unframed realized by TUSET in 2010. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm
Original and unique piece 1/1.
Includes ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Handmade Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #5 - Contemporary, Green, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #5, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Color Pencil
Empty and full, informalist painting with natural pigments on cotton with frame
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried for a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Organic Material, Wood, Varnish, Cotton Canvas
Untitled 05 - Contemporary, Drawing, Purple, 21st Century, Organic
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 05, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body throu...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Color Pencil
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Abstract Expressionist
Located in Carballo, ES
Black And White Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Handmade Paper
Christus by Gilbert Pauli - Gouache on paper 31x45 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Gouache on paper with frame size 91x76 cm, excellent state
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
Untitled_Body Remains on the Field - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body Remains on the Field, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #8 - 21st Century, Drawing, Blue, Green, Yellow
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #8, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #1 - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Sky, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1 - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Color Pencil
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST Signed Oil Pastel on Paper, Car Drive-Thru Window, Surreal
Located in Union City, NJ
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wiscon...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
CALORIE BURNER(THIRD HOUR) Signed Oil Pastel Girl Pink Workout Shorts Treadmill
Located in Union City, NJ
CALORIE BURNER(THIRD HOUR) is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee,...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
FRUGALNOMICS Signed Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag, Interior Portrait, Math, Bicycle
Located in Union City, NJ
FRUGALNOMICS is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ge...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
HIS NEW DEN Signed Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag, Man with Vacuum Cleaner, Surreal
Located in Union City, NJ
HIS NEW DEN is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gee is known for his Visonary Art filled with comical, expressive faces, figures, and colorful, surreal landscapes and seascapes. He is of African and Native American (Blackfoot/Choctaw) descent.
HIS NEW DEN depicts an amusing scene from modern day life - a lanky male figure in a striped shirt, pale yellow toned slacks and blue shoes pushing his upright vacuum cleaner...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
"Cuore Amore" by Enzio Wenk, 2020-2022 - Acrylic Paint and Pencil, Abstract
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Heart Love"
Acrylic paint and pencil on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
It's been drawn in one go, with no eras...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Painted faces, greenwich Village New york. Poetry, based on poem or song lyrics.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Poetry piece. Based on poem or song. Washington Square New York
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Artist and Model # 2 warm sepia toned linear nude female with tattoo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This mixed media drawing on toned archival sanded heavyweight paper is the second in a recent series if pastels depicting the artist and Model subject which had been done extensively...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
Neo-Expressionist Linear Geometric Abstract #2 - In the Style of Basquiat
By Peter Costello
Located in Soquel, CA
Neo-Expressionist Linear Geometric Abstract #2 - In the Style of Basquiat
Dynamic contemporary Neo-Expressionist abstract composition in red...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Cuban Artist Pastel Drawing African American Emilio Cruz Bonnie & Clyde Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Emilio Cruz (1938-2004)
Bonnie and Clyde
Pastel on paper
Hand signed lower right
Dimensions Framed H 15-7/8" W 18-1/2", Sight H 13-1/2" W 16-1/8"
Emilio Antonio Cruz (1938 – 2004) was a Cuban American artist who lived most of his life in New York City. His work is held in several major museums in the United States.
Emilio Antonio Cruz was an American Artist of Cuban descent. He was born in the Bronx on March 15, 1938. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with Edwin Dickinson, George Grosz and Frank J. Reilly and at The New School in New York City, and finally at the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphic Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. As a young artist in the 1960s, Cruz was connected with other artists who were applying abstract expressionism concepts to figurative art such as Lester Johnson, Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Bob Thompson and Jan Muller. He combined human and animal figures with imagery from archaeology and natural history to create disturbing, dreamlike paintings. Cruz received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the late 1968, Emilio and wife Patricia Cruz moved to St. Louis to work with Julius Hemphill and the Black Artists Group. He served as director for the visual arts program, which also included painters Oliver Jackson and Manuel Hughes. In addition to artistic contributions, the couple participated in city-wide civil rights protests and rent strikes.
Cruz moved to Chicago and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1970s, where he exhibited widely and was represented by the Walter Kelly Gallery. He wrote two plays, Homeostasis: Once More the Scorpion and The Absence Held Fast to Its Presence. These were first performed at the Open Eye Theater in New York in 1981, and later were included in the World Theater Festival in Nancy and Paris, France, and in Italy. In 1982 he returned to New York where he began to exhibit again. In the late 1980s he resumed teaching at the Pratt Institute and at New York University.
Harry Rand, Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, described Emilio Cruz as one of the important pioneers of American Modernism of the 1960s for his fusion of Abstract Expressionist art with figuration. Geno Rodriguez, Curator and Executive Director of The Alternative Museum, wrote in 1985, "Emilio Cruz, is a brilliant and impassioned artist whose current paintings are monumental, imbued with intelligence, fury and an apt sense of irony. They reflect the turbulent world within which we live."
Geoffrey Jacques wrote in 1990, "Emilio Cruz paints humanity’s essence. Mythology and archeology are the foremost concerns of the painter Emilio Cruz. Dinosaurs, skeletal humans and fossil-like images are used in his work as metaphoric signposts in a consideration of the basic questions of existence." Art historian and curator Paul Staiti wrote in 1997, "Emilio Cruz's Homo sapiens series is a strange and haunting genealogy of the modern soul... What is at stake here more than biopolitical culture, is the remystification of the body and mapping of consciousness ... For all the trauma, explicit and implicit, Cruz's style is masterful, classical, even beautiful."
Exhibitions
Cruz held his first solo exhibition at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York in 1963. Afterwards his work was included in many group and solo exhibitions, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in 1986 and 1991, museum exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1987, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1997. In 1994, Cruz's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador. Other American artists exhibiting at this show were Donald Locke...
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20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Pastel
"Ofort / Instantly", Miniature Abstract Expressionist Russian Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
A miniature abstract expressionist etching by Russian artist R. Silvestrov (Russian, 20th Century). Very finely detailed lines create an abstracted image that has elements resembling a mechanical drawing...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Greenwich Village Bar. The Pickup
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Poetry piece. Based on poem or song. Paris, France
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced water...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Times Square, New York. The Carpetbaggers
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor pai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Water drops, sea, green, signed, neo-expressionist painting
Located in Carballo, ES
Green Neoexpressionist Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2018. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 42 x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Handmade Paper
Sleepwalking monochromatic, mysterious interior black/white w dramatic windows
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
CURIOUS PHENOMENA Signed Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag, Abstract Landscape, Green
Located in Union City, NJ
CURIOUS PHENOMENA is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wisconsi...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Neo-expressionist drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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