Soren Grau
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Archival Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Ceramic, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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Soren Grau is an artist from Denmark who has lived in Los Angeles for the past 12 years. Each of his artworks conveys both personal meaning and ambiguity, to be interpreted differently by each person. Grau’s cultural commentary runs parallel to our social consciousness. The pure pleasure of creating is the driving force behind his painting. Grau believes that art need not be complicated and that art is for everyone. “Whatever an artist does, they put a piece of their soul into the artwork,” explains Grau. “In that way you can show who you are. You can make yourself individual by creating something unique that is a part of you but that can also be a part of those who see it and experience it.” A self-taught artist, Grau has won numerous industry awards for his aesthetically pleasing drawing style, graphics and loud colors. Grau’s artworks are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and have been collected by international companies, including Red Bull, HBO, Toyota and FX (Fox), as well as internationally by private art lovers.
A Close Look at neo-expressionist Art
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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Finding the Right figurative-paintings for You
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
Browse an extensive collection of figurative paintings on 1stDibs.