neo-expressionistn.adj.
/ˌniːəʊᵻkˈsprɛʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌniːəʊɛkˈsprɛʃn̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌnioʊɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəst/, /ˈˌnioʊɛkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəst/; see also expressionist n. A. n.
A practitioner of neo-expressionism.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > other movements > artists
luminarist1888
luminist1901
Suprematist1919
precisionist1927
muralist1937
neoprimitive1938
Rayonist1947
nuclearist1952
neo-expressionist1955
structurist1958
neo-Dadaist1960
body artist1971
post-minimalist1971
1955 P. Heron Changing Forms Art 171 The occasional gaunt landscapes by young French neo-expressionists such as Bernard Buffet or Raymond Guerrier.
1967 P. Viereck in P. H. Juviler Soviet Policy-Making iv. 88 In the summer of 1964, the Manezh exhibited a collection of paintings by Ilya Glazounov, a neo-Expressionist in the German style of the 1920's.
1987 Amer. Q. 39 130 In painting, we see the reintroduction of shadowy figuration, like X-ray images, in the canvases of the neo-expressionists.
1995 New Yorker 20 Mar. 72 (caption) Two by two, they come aboard—the Neo-Expressionist and the installation artist.
B. adj.
Of or relating to neo-expressionism.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others
all'antica1605
neo-Gothic1878
Barbizon1890
chinoiserie1909
neoprimitive1922
omega1922
Suprematist1922
beaux arts1924
ashcan1934
vitalistic1937
Euston Road1941
precisionist1943
abstract impressionist1950
abstract-concrete1955
neo-expressionist1957
metaphysical1958
structurist1958
auto-destructive1959
Rayonist1968
post-minimal1971
assemblagist1977
Neo-Geo1987
1957 L. Izod et al. tr. M. Seuphor Dict. Abstr. Painting 197 In his abstract work of the ‘Blaue Reiter’ period, Kandinsky is the precursor of the ‘effusionist’, lyrical, and neo-expressionist styles which play a large part in abstract painting today.
1968 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 25 Landscape and other subjects are handled by Miss Rosenberger as a series of neoexpressionist clichés.
1988 Art Feb. 15/2 Paki Smith's slightly blasphemous neo-expressionist pictures are lively.
1996 Current Anthropol. 37 201/1 Marshack's method is..a central methodology of any discipline that works with what it takes to be a structured, ‘systematic’ artifact of any kind, from Paleolithic artifacts to Neoexpressionist canvases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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