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Neo-Expressionist Art

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
Period: 20th Century
Bernard l'Hermite
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

"Lobster, " Original Color Still Life Serigraph signed by Hunt Slonem
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lobster" is an original color serigraph by Hunt Slonem. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right, wrote the title lower center, and the edition number (AP/2) in the lower left. This piece depicts a still life of patterned pillows, vegetables, and animals. 19"x 19"image 21 7/8"x 29 3/4"paper 31 1/2 x 31 1/2" frame Hunt Slonem (born Hunt Slonim, July 18, 1951) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of tropical birds, often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from 30 to over 100 live birds of various species. Slonem's works are included in many important museum collections all over the world; he is exhibiting regularly at both public and private venues, and he has received numerous honors and awards. Hunt Slonem’s oil paintings...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Screen

"Chemical Skoids Void Balance, " Acrylic on Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This oil pastel artwork, 'Chemical Skoids Void Balance,' Reginald K Gee plays with space and perspective. As in a collage, a technique that modern a...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Acrylic

La Nuit M'enchante...
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Beach Volley
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Femme au Cigare
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Invierno Primaveral
Located in New York, NY
"Sexual Spring-like Winter" is a large painterly work, created with layers of pink and resin by the art and film world's favorite enfant terrible, Julian Schnabel. The artist and dir...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Screen

The Acrobat
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Hommage à Munch
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

"Basket Weave Bacon Bowl, " Yellow Ceramic with Bacon signed by Michael Gross
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Basket Weave Bacon Bowl" is an original ceramic by Michael Gross. The artist signed and dated the piece on the bottom. It features images of bacon on yellow. 8 1/2" x 9 1/2" x 6" art The ceramic sculptures of Wisconsin artist Michael Gross are personal narratives that reveal an unusual mix of earthly magic and primal vitality. The artist works in a variety of forms, including figurines, large vessels and furniture. With over a dozen museum exhibitions under his belt, the artist is a regular exhibitor at SOFA in New York...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Ceramic

"Cover Jar w/ Rooster, " Stoneware, Bronze, & Feathers signed by Ernst Gramatzki
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cover Jar w/ Rooster" is an original stoneware vase by Ernst Gramatzki. 11 3/4" x 4 1/2" art Ernst Gramatzki is a world renowned artist, sculptor, potter, painter and poet. Some of his work is in the Smithsonian Institute in D.C. as well as in art galleries in both the U.S and Europe. Ernst was born in Koenigsverg, Germany, in the Russian sector near the Baltic Sea. The area is also referred to as Kaliningrad and is the birthplace of philosopher Emanuel Kant. His interest in art is the result of two Hungarian art students taken in as borders by his family following the Hungarian revolution. One, who is still well known throughout Europe, was a potter. "I shared half of the garage with him," said Ernst, who attended the School of Art in Hamburg. It was in 1961 that Ernst immigrated to the United States, taking a position with the Milwaukee Public Museum. He has lived in Rochester for nearly 30 years. Each room of his home is dedicated to a different art form. A room at the top of the stairs is filled with oil paints and multi-paneled works that are still in progress. In the basement, wet clay sits ready to be molded by inspired hands. Ernst still does work for museums, which sometimes directs where he focuses his energy each day. "I try to juggle the things I have to do with the things I want to do," he said. "One is always at the expense of the other. "I like to blow things up that people are too busy to look at," he said of his oil paintings. "You have to sit and look at things. You don't need to name things. That limits people in their imagination and what they would like it to be." An entire painting may be devoted to the stains on the bottom of a coffee mug, or a close-up view of a twig. Ernst said his inspiration can come from anything around him. He found a use for a dried-up grapefruit by using it as a mold for a clay stamp. Nothing, including an old corn cob, is overlooked as an artistic tool. "I dream lots of things. It's like turning on the TV as soon as I hit the sack," he said, working the surface of a clay toad he had sculpted the following day, using a walnut to stamp out some eyes. Most of his pottery takes the form of covered jars, each of which has its own number and entry in a journal that includes a sketch and to whom the piece were sold. The covers of the jars have small bronze sculptures for handles. Recently, Ernst has shifted gears and has been creating dozens of clay bird...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Bronze

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

"After Party", Large Scale Neo-Expressionist Abstracted Symbolist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
"After Party", Large Scale Neo-Expressionist Abstracted Symbolist Figurative Striking abstracted figurative titled "After Party" by Michael Eggleston (Ame...
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1970s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Nude, Next to Chair, " Original Charcoal Ddrawing signed by Estherly Allen
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nude, Next to Chair" is a charcoal figure drawing by Estherly Allen. The artist signed the piece. It depicts a nude woman lounging on a cushio...
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1970s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Charcoal

Run
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

"Adam Eats Eve in the Evening" Original Lithograph signed by Stephanie Astrinsky
By Stephanie Astrinsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Adam Eats Eve in the Evening" is an original black and white lithograph by Stephane Astrinsky. This surreal lithograph evokes a biblical story as well as elements of horror. 9 1/4...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Large-Scale Modern Argyle Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical large-scale abstract presenting a modernist take on old-fashioned argyle shapes with contemporary color palate by D.S. Silver (American, 20th Century), a San Francisco, Cal...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Station
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1993, this color etching and aquatint is hand-signed by Christopher Brown (Camp Lejeune, 1951 - ) in pencil in the bottom right margin and is numbered from the edition of ...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Slonem's work is full of textural color and expressive brushstrokes, leaving an exotic and vibrant feel.
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Neo-Expressionist Portrait (Cuban artist)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1985. Oil on masonite panel, 24.25 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed and dated lower left. Excellent condition. Manuel Pa...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Masonite, Oil

Vanda, signed screenprint by Hunt Slonem
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful print by American Neo-Expressionist artist Hunt Slonem in his two-dimensional style. As an artist, Slonem is best known for incorporating mysticism, animal motifs, and mul...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Screen

Latin American Figurative Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Monoprint Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Artists stamp to verso; pictured. Provenance: From the artists estate. Oscar Murillo (Mexican American 1940-2017) was a prominent figure in the 1960s an...
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20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Grün VI (Green VI) - 21st Century, Georg Baselitz, Green, Portrait
Located in Köln, DE
"Grün VI" is a motif from a range of woodcuts showing similar motifs in the same green colour. Baselitz is digesting his memories of the time shortly after the end of World War II in...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Woodcut

Woman with Birds and Butterflies, Silkscreen by Froylan Ojeda
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Froylan Ojeda, Mexican (1932 - 1991) Title: Woman with Birds and Butterflies Year: circa 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pen...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Screen

Tall Witness
Located in Fairfield, CT
oil on canvas
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Beach scene: Dog, Eric Fischl garden landscape with nude woman and lush grass
Located in New York, NY
A nude figure bends down to touch the grass, which blooms across the composition in soft clouds of green. This idyllic landscape is one of four beach scenes by Eric Fischl. Behind th...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Dance of Shapes
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media

"Morning Mist" Waterscape in Black Charcoal on Paper signed by Howard Schroedter
By Howard Schroedter
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morning Mist" is an original charcoal drawing on paper by Howard Schroedter. This drawing depicts a misty lake in darkness. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. 24 1/4" x 18" art 25 1/2" x 19" frame Howard Schroedter's paintings restore an experience for the art viewer that has become rare with the passing of such American artists as Charles Burchfield, Marsden Hartley, and Fairfield Porter. His moody, expressionist landscapes help us remember the power of specific places to arouse acute feelings in the sensitive artist. Schroedter's paintings are not the casual pictures of the artist in search of the picturesque. Schroedter knows the locales of his art as well as Edward Hopper knew Provincetown, Massachusetts, as intimately as Porter knew Southampton, Long Island. He did about a hundred paintings at Myyaka, Florida, while on a year's leave from the UW-Milwaukee where Schroedter has taught for twenty-nine years. He has created a vaster body of work focusing on Hatch Lake in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, where he has maintained a vacation home for more than twenty years. Schroedter's paintings are his contemplations of the mystery that envelopes these places and his own sense of smallness in relation to the lands. The viewer sees Myyaka and Hatch Lake as filtered through Schroedter's temperament. The air in his Myyaka scene is sparkly and clear, but quite often the atmospheres in Schroedter's pictures are dark and moody and owe something to the art of Joseph Friebert...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Charcoal

Supermaestro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandro Chia, Italian (1946 - ) Title: Supermaestro Year: 1991 Medium: Oil on canvas, signed and dated l.r., labeled verso Size: 68.5 x 60.5 in. (173.99 x 153.67 cm)
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Blue with Red by Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Richard Diebenkorn woodcut on echizen kozo washi paper 37 x 25" 1987 signed by artist *edition of 200 Framed in a beautiful maple frame. museum plexi glass PERFECT condition! Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) maintained his love of vivid color and structured composition in both his abstract and representational works. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1922, Diebenkorn moved with his family to San Francisco in 1924. After attending Stanford University from 1940 to 1942, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where he concentrated on art classes. In the winter of 1944, when he was stationed in Virginia, he frequently visited The Phillips Collection, where he was inspired by the paintings of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne. He particularly admired Matisse’s technique of structuring space through planes of color, merging indoor and outdoor space. Returning to San Francisco in 1946, Diebenkorn enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts, where he studied with David Park, an expressionist artist from the Bay Area. Awarded a fellowship the same year, he moved East, living and working in Woodstock, New York, visiting New York City, and making many contacts. After returning to San Francisco, where he defined himself as a leading Bay Area artist, he was appointed to the faculty at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947, a position he held for two years; his fellow teachers included Elmer Bischoff, Edward Corbett, Hassel Smith, and Clyfford Still. Diebenkorn had his first one-person show in 1948 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. After receiving a degree from Stanford University in 1949, he was awarded an M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1951. He briefly taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana 1952-53, settling shortly thereafter in Berkeley, California. Diebenkorn often titled his works after places that provided him with inspiration, such as his Berkeley paintings...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Washi Paper, Woodcut

Otono Floral
Located in New York, NY
OTONO FLORAL, 1995 Hand-painted, 15-color silkscreen with poured resin 40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm) Edition of 80 "Sexual Spring-like Winter" is a large painterly work, created with...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Screen, Resin

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Find a wide variety of authentic Neo-Expressionist art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Enzio Wenk, Sax Berlin, and Jean Sanglar. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Neo-Expressionist art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $39 and tops out at $215,000, while the average work sells for $3,444.

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