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Neo-expressionism was a style of modern painting that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American Lyrical Abstraction it developed in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalistic art of the 1970s. Neo-expressionists returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in a virtually abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies. Overtly inspired by the so-called German Expressionist painters--Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, George Grosz--and other emotive artist such as James Ensor and Edvard Munch. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Neue Wilde ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term).

Neo-expressionism around the world

Germany
- Georg Baselitz (often considered the leading developer of the style)
- Anselm Kiefer
- Jörg Immendorff
USA
France
- Rémi Blanchard
- François Boisrond
- Robert Combas
- Hervé Di Rosa
- The style was sometimes called Figuration Libre.
Italy
- Francesco Clemente
- Sandro Chia
- Enzo Cucchi
- The style was sometimes called Transavantgarde (beyond avant-garde).
England
The Netherlands
- Menno Baars
South Africa
- Marlene Dumas
Spain
- Miquel Barcelo
Australia
- George Gittoes (War Artist)
Mexico
- Julio Galán

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