Neo-Geon.adj.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːəʊ/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈdʒioʊ/ Art.
A. n.
An artistic movement of the late 1980s, predominantly in the U.S., which revived the bold, geometric shapes and blocks of colour associated with Abstract Expressionism, and frequently incorporated consumer objects as a comment upon the commercialist nature of art.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > other movements
chinoiserie1846
fantasticism1846
materialism1850
attitudinarianism1853
Vienna Secession1900
luminarism1903
Viennese Secession1903
luminism1905
Whistlerism1912
Omega Workshop1917
Suprematism1921
neoprimitivism1922
Rayonism1922
Bauhaus1923
linearism1935
precisionism1939
actionism1953
neo-expressionism1957
neo-Dadaism1960
neo-Dada1961
structurism1963
arte povera1969
process art1969
eco-art1970
body art1971
post-minimalism1971
Memphis1981
neo-conceptualism1986
Neo-Geo1986
Norman Rockwellism1988
Stuckism1999
1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. c31/1 They are vigilant in their opposition to labels, such as ‘Neo Geo’ and ‘Smart Art’, which have now become marketing phrases for many of the artists shown very early by Collins & Milazzo.
1992 J. A. Walker Gloss. Art, Archit. & Design (ed. 3) § 443 ‘Neo-Geo’ is short for ‘Neo-Geometric’. The label originally referred to a group of young American abstract painters using hard edges and flat, dayglo colours; it was then extended to include certain sculptors.
1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Electronic ed.) 22 Jan. Postmodernism, video art, installation art, neo-geo, neo-expressionism—the volatile art world of the 1980s gave rise and fall to a long procession of art styles and movements.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of or relating to this movement.
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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
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Oct. d1 They make one feel that hard-edged art—despite the recent burp of retrograde and vapid neo-geo painting—is running out of steam.
1992 J. A. Walker Gloss. Art, Archit., & Design (ed. 3) § 443 Neo-Geo artists were also aware of the critique of the art market, commodities and the consumer society which had been current since the mid 1970s; consequently their art included ironic (and some claimed critical) comments on these issues.
2000 Independent on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 19 Nov. Ross Blackner came to the fore during the late 1980s as part of the Simulationist or Neo-Geo vogue.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1986