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Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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
"Heart Felt" Heart Shaped Diamond Dust Turquoise Bunny Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a double bunny on a turquoise blue gradient background with thick use of paint and diamon...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Resin, Oil, Wood Panel

Duino Elegies
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Richard Mann (1940-1990). Duino Elegies, 1981. Mixed media on rag paper, consisting of 43 sheets, each measuring 18 x 24 inches. Each vertical edge is hinged with mounting tape, resulting in a fold-out folio presentation. Entire measurement: 18 inches h., 774 inches w. Framing possibilities. Pages can be separated to present each page individually if desired, or quite possibly as 10 groups corresponding to the ten poems. Please request additional images depicting alternate formats or videos. Biography: Playwright, poet and visual artist, Rev. Richard Mann was born and educated in Melbourne Australia. At the height of America's counter-cultural revolution, Mann moved to New York City where he lived and worked in Harlem. He was influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphy at the time of his arrival. Beginning in the mid-1970's, the extreme living conditions of Harlem and demands of his religious calling provided subject matter for his painting. Urban decay and ubiquitous public graffiti provide inspiration for compositions that include highly stylized writing. By the late 1970's many works incorporate writing exclusively, with areas of layered, obscured and illegible words, very much like repeatedly tagged walls. Education: Studied painting with Maurice Cantlon, Melbourne, Australia 1961-62. Liberal Arts Studies, Christ the King...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

"2 in Green Diamond Heart" Heart Shaped Diamond Dust Double Bunny Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a double bunny on emerald green background with thick use of paint and diamond dust. It i...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Resin, Oil, Wood Panel

"Stance" Black Outlined Bunny on Gold Background Oil Painting on Wood Panel
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a Gold background with thick use of paint. It is ho...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Senza titolo (Cane)" by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translate title: "Untitled (dog)" Acrylic on canvas. The artist painted the frame.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"Pascolo" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Grazing". Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2020 -Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Poder Bravo" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Mixed media on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Memorie Tropicali" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Tropical memories" Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Figura" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic on Wood Panel, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Figure" Acrylic paint on wood panel.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Aver ancora vita per cercare" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Still having life to look for" Acrylic on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Pistachio green, stitched, aluminum frame, botany, tapestry (ORIGINAL DIPTYCH)
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Boa convivência (buenaventura)" is a series of paintings that the artist had buried for a year in th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Thread, Organic Material, Wood, Varnish, Cotton Canvas

Huge Oil Painting "Jeu D'enfant" Colorful Vibrant Abstract Geometric
Located in Surfside, FL
The artist Richard Hennessy creates pictorial space as a complex and contradictory entity. The colorful ground uses alternately concave and convex forms and negative space to indicate overlapping geometric shapes. Signed and titled on verso by the artist. Richard Hennessy, 1972. Born in Rochester, NY, in 1941, Hennessy began as a gifted concert pianist studying at the Eastman School of Music from 1954-1959. He went on to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, from 1963-66, after which he began his career as a fine artist. His early paintings were quickly admired and supported by Henry Geldzahler, curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His first exhibition was in 1969 at Olivier Bernier Inc. NYC, followed in 1970 by a show at the Tibor De Nagy Gallery, also in NYC. Over the years he has shown in San Francisco, Indiana, Arizona, Florida, and at other prominent NYC galleries...
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1970s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Who is the Loneliest Monk?" Contemporary Surreal Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-scale contemporary figurative abstract on red, evoking the style of Basquiat, by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957), 2008. A man in a tuxedo sips a martini in the foreground, surrounded by chaotic layers of faces and figures in a surreal, dream-like space. Signed "Michael Paulker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Permanent Marker, Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

"Senza Narrazione - 5 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 5" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

Mixed Media Neo Expressionist Collage Assemblage Painting Sculpture Art Brut
Located in Surfside, FL
LOREN MUNK (american b. 1951) MUNKEY BUSINESS Signed and dated 'Munk 84' verso, mixed media construction with paint brushes, mirrored mosaic tile, gold leaf and oil paint 57 x 33 x 23 in. (144.8 x 83.8 x 58.4cm) Provenance: Malcolm Forbes collection The artist Loren Munk (born 1951) is primarily known for his YouTube nickname James Kalm as an uploader of videos about New York exhibitions, amongst others. He presents himself as a maker of contemporary paintings for several decades and of cubist paintings of urban imagery. Munk has received accolades for his drawings and mosaics. He differs from traditional mosaic artists by the manner in which he incorporates glass into his decorative paintings. His unique and innovative use of materials such as mirror, gold-leaf and glass mosaic affirmed him as a founding force of Kitsch Art and a leading member of New York Neo-Expressionism. Munk's work debuted in SoHo in 1981 with a double show at J. Fields Gallery and Gabrielle Bryers. Since then, he has overseen an international career. In addition to exhibiting in Brazil, France, Germany and the United States, Munk has received national and overseas, public and private commissions. He is well represented in important collections throughout Europe, South and North America and the Middle East. Most recently, Munk has been producing a series of paintings which tackle the subject of art itself through a historical and diagrammatic lens. Munk documents the New York art world in YouTube videos, using the name James Kalm. Timeline: 1979 Attended Art Students League, New York 1973-75 Attended University of Maryland at Ramstein, Germany while in US Army 1969-72 Attended Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho 1951 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah Select Group Exhibitions 2018 “Under Erasure” curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein at Pierogi Gallery New York 2016 "It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting" at the Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln Neb. with: Robert Bordo, Dawn Clements, Lois Dodd, Michelle Grabner, Colin Prahl, Peter Saul, Barbara Takenaga, and Stanley Whitney 2014 "Some Artists" curated by Matthew Deleget at Minus Space. David Diao, Mary Beth Edelson, Alfred Jensen, George Maciunas, Loren Munk, Ward Shelley, John Zinsser 2013 "Coming Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1" curated by Phong Bui for the Dedalus Foundation, "The Decline and Fall of the Art World: Part I" curated by Nick Lawrence at Freight+Volume, N.Y. "Reticulate" at McKenzie Fine Art Inc., N.Y. "The Pyramids Along the Nile" at English Kills Gallery 2012 "When We Were Ancient" organized by Ethan Petitt at Teddy's Bar, Williamsburg "Heroes" curated by Julie Torres at Small Black Door, Ridgewood Queens, N.Y. 2011 "ABC123" curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y. "6 Who Paint" curated by Fred Valentine at Big & Small/Casual, Long Island City, N.Y. "It's All Good: Apocalypse Now" curated by Richard Timperio, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. "Paper 2011" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn. "NEW year NEW work NEW faces" by Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown at Storefront Gallery. "Unfinished Pictures" curated by Kristin Calabrese at LACE, Los Angeles Cal. "It's All Good" curated by Richard Timperio at Side Show Gallery Brooklyn. 2010 "Wall to Wall" Daniel Weinberg Gallery Los Angeles California. Artists: Richard Artschwager, Lynda Benglis, Robert Bechtle, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A work by Julian Schnabel. This large scale, Untitled, abstract, oil, resin, gesso, fabric and leather on seamed dropcloth is executed in a dark palette of rust, gray and black with ...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Leather, Gesso, Fabric, Resin, Oil

German American Neo Abstract Expressionist Contemporary Oil Painting Mixed Media
Located in Surfside, FL
Berndt Haussmann (German / American, b. 1957) Das Lied von der Erde, mixed media painting on canvas signed, titled and numbered on verso unframed 32 1/4 x 48 inches. BERND HAUSSMAN...
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Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

1979 Large Colorful Abstract Oil Painting "Nightlife" Jazz Inspired Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Hennessy, 1972. Born in Rochester, NY, in 1941, Hennessy began as a gifted concert pianist studying at the Eastman School of Music from 1954-1959. He went on to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, from 1963-66, after which he began his career as a fine artist. His early paintings were quickly admired and supported by Henry Geldzahler, curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His first exhibition was in 1969 at Olivier Bernier Inc. NYC, followed in 1970 by a show at the Tibor De Nagy Gallery, also in NYC. Over the years he has shown in San Francisco, Indiana, Arizona, Florida, and at other prominent NYC galleries including Robert Miller, Hamilton, John Good and a retrospective at NYU’s Grey Gallery. Aaron Copeland, America’s foremost composer, and John Ashberry, America’s premier poet, were early champions of his work. He is in NYC collections of the Brooklyn, Metropolitan, Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, as well as the Copland Manor house in Cortland NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and many others. He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Ann & Erlo Van Waveron Foundations. Art critic Roberta Smith called his work “ironic, lyrical abstraction.” Critic Christopher Scott: “Hennessy has, unlike many modern artists, not ignored the history of art, and his works are enriched by the paintings, sculptures, buildings, decorative arts, photographs, films, music and literature that he immersed himself in. He has harnessed the power of his talent and intelligence for artistic purposes leading to virtuoso maximalist. He has applied this intelligence with the same adventurousness of spirit visible in the early abstractions of Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning, spontaneous yet precise.” HIs work would go well in a 1980's Memphis Milano interior. He showed at MoMA with Lynda Benglis, Jonathan Borofsky, Billy Copley, Eric Fischl, Deborah Kass, Elizabeth Murray, Yoko Ono, Sean Scully In 1982. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 GEOFFREY YOUNG GALLERY GT. BARRINGTON, MA ELEMENTS OF STYLE 2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD 2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES 2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND USA 1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION) 1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW 1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN 1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK 1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S 1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...
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1970s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A work by Julian Schnabel. This large scale, Untitled, oil, resin, gesso, fabric and leather on seamed dropcloth, abstract painting is executed in a dark palette, primarily in grays ...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Leather, Gesso, Fabric, Resin, Oil

Oil Painting Photo Collage Assemblage Feminist Pop Art Miami Artist Sheila Elias
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled: Calabash Hand signed, dated and titled. Sheila Elias (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist. Her work is Neo Expressionist, Feminist Pop Art. Her works have been featured in exhibitions across North America and at the Liberty show at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Elias graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, lives and works in Miami, Florida and in New York City. As an artist and art historian, Elias works with the layers of life and art history, seeking in it a connection between art aesthetics and social consciousness. She has exhibited with diverse artists, Larry Rivers, Bob Stanley, Ford Crull, Sol LeWitt, Mark Tobey, Walter Darby Bannard, Clyde Butcher. Her work spans the disciplines of painting, digital mixed media, sculpture, installation and performance. Her inspiration to be an artist began with the work that Matisse created (La Cirque) in the library of the Art Institute of Chicago. Paul Wieghardt (from the Bauhaus School in Germany), was her art teacher at SAIC. She was influenced by the Marisol, Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet. Her sculptures also reveal the influence of Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. We also have a work from her Pompidou Series (1979-1981) built around the X in the raw, exposed architecture of the Centre Georges Pompidou in the center of Paris designed by Richard Rodgers and Renzo Piano. Select Exhibitions: Museo Vault in Wynwood Art District, Miami Coral Springs Museum of Art, Sheila Elias: Somewhere-Anywhere, Coral Springs, Fla. Lila G. Martinez Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. “Painted Pixels” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL (Solo Exhibition) “Salon Series” The Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL (Group Exhibition) “The Invisible Woman” Concrete Space, Doral, FL (Group Exhibition) “eye-Pad” Silvana Facchini Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL “Jewels” Buccellati, Bal Harbour, FL “Chai Contemporary” Jewish Museum, Miami Beach, FL “Tribute to Africa” Silvana Facchini Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL The Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood, Miami, FL Apple Store “iPaint on my iPad,” Chicago, IL The Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. The Napoleon Grand Salon at The Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla. Bass Museum, "I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe," Miami Beach, Fla. Boca Raton Museum of Art Norton Museum of Art Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Fla. Jewish Museum of Florida Kim Foster Gallery, "Beyond the Camera...," New York, NY Silvana Facchini Gallery, "Living in Miami," Miami, Fla. South Florida / Art Center, "Reconnect," Miami Beach, Fla. Maryland Federation of Art, "Art on Paper 2001" Corcoran Gallery, Annapolis, MD, juror David C. Levy Veneto Gallery, Miami, Fla. Margulies Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbour, Fla. "Secret Gardens," Travelling Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Fla. Public Art Program, City of Orlando, Fla. Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Fla. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Fla. Bernard Biderman Gallery, New York, NY Metro Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Fla. Huntsville Museum of Art New England Center for Contemporary Art San Diego Art Institute, CA Anne Jaffe Gallery, Bay Harbour, Fla. Ratner Gallery, Chicago, IL Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. Paula Allan Gallery, New York, NY. Otis Parsons School of Design, "Hollywood: Portrait of the Stars" California Louvre, Institute des Decoratifs, "Liberty: the Official Exhibitions Centenary of the Statue of Liberty", Louvre Institut des Decoratifs, Paris, France New York Public Library, New York, NY Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC New York University, Loeb Gallery, New York, NY Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, Calif. Danville Museum of Fine Arts, Danville, Virginia Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY New York University, New York, NY Stella Polaris...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Photographic Paper, Mixed Media

Large Venezuelan Expressionist Oil Painting Diego Barboza Latin American Master
Located in Surfside, FL
Diego Barboza - 1945-2003 Hand signed and dated 1988 Oil on Canvas Diego Barboza was born the Carabobo street of Maracaibo, Venezuela on February 4, 1945. He was a Venezuelan Neo Figurative Painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in Venezuelan art history. Diego Barboza opened a new chapter in Latin America, beyond the surreal or the magical realism of the Modern Latin American Masters. He created a new language of dislocation and transgression. Personages became distorted to the point that was very exaggerated forms His figures twisted and contorted without losing their presence or their pull. Extremities muscles, and bones burst into an explosive compound of divergent and convergent lines. Through eruptive brushstrokes and fractured outlines. Barboza created a world of illusions. Barboza was born into a upper-middle-class family. He stopped going to school at 12 years old, and he registered himself at the School of Visual Art in the City of Maracaibo Venezuela. Barboza studied at the School of Visual Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. Barboza began his training as an artist at age 12 in his native Maracaibo when he left formal education to enroll in the then School of Plastic Arts of Zulia, then Julio Arraga School of Plastic Arts, where he was a student in the modeling, collage and Drawing of Angelina Curiel. His first collages, in the sixties, show the influence of American Pop Art. In 1967 he exhibited at the Ateneo de Caracas his series 'Los Ratones', a proposal then 'criticized by critics as unprecedented in Venezuela'. In his tribute to the film "Nosferatu" Friedrich Murnau included 32 drawings as well as two-dimensional objects. In 1968 he moved to London where he studied at the London College of Printing. From that time is his '30 Girls with Nets', an action in which 30 students of the London College of Printing, dressed in black and covered by white nets, toured London public places, behaving naturally. His 'street expressions', which he later called 'poetic actions', symbolized a breakdown of social restraints through unusual behaviors that sought to provoke public reactions. Upon his return to Venezuela in 1973, Barboza continues with this line of work, being recognized as one of the initiators of Venezuelan conceptual art. In the 1980's Diego Barboza turned to painting, the New Venezuelan Figuration. Here belongings and the feminine figure fill the work of that time, in which he embodied his intimacy and daily life through scenes of furnishings and flowers that included objects from his workshop and home. His nudes were made from live model, then to follow the path of distortion resulting in their unmistakable females: a figure that represented their personal way of appreciating beauty. Barboza presented his first individual exhibition at the Centro de Bellas Artes of Maracaibo Venezuela. In 1963, he traveled to London when the Conceptual Art movement started, he had the support of the London New Art Lab Gallery. On March 7, 1970 Barboza displayed his first work on Conceptual Art, which he called Art of Action. In London with the performance of 30 Girls with nets (30 Muchachas con redes). His second work was Nets and Hats in markets and restaurants (Con sombreros y redes en mercados y restaurantes). In London UK. His third The Centerpiece (El Ciempies) and the fourth Expression on a laundry-mat (Expresiones en una lavandería) In 1974. Baboza returned to Venezuela. Where he presented two very important Conceptual Art works: The Armadillo Box (La Caja del Cachicamo) and from the School of Athens to the New School of Caracas (De la Escuela de Atenas a la Nueva Escuela de Caracas). Closing his cycle of Conceptual Art creation. IN Venezuela a sort of impromptu academy started up at Claudio Perna’s house. Eugenio Espinoza, Roberto Obregón, Antonieta Sosa, Alfred Wenemoser, Yeni and Nan, Sigfredo Chacón, Diego Barboza, Luis Villamizar, Margherita D’Amico, Pedro Terán, Alfredo del Mónaco, as well as international figures who happened to be visiting Venezuela such as Antoni Muntadas, Charlotte Moorman, and Roman Polanski would gather there. Venezuela, especially Caracas, was a rich field of action for modernism in South America. Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction, Op art and Kinetic Art dominated through crucial figures like Jesús Rafael Soto, Gego, Alejandro Otero, and Carlos Cruz Diez, the country’s kinetic art made a fundamental contribution internationally. The Greater London Arts Association and the Arts Council of Great Britain did several exhibitions of (North, Central, South, London, Wales, Scotland and Ulster) to show the actual Visual Arts in all of the United Kingdom and Diego Barboza was invited for this event with a solo exhibition, expressions around a cylinder (Expresiones alrededor de un cilindro). Diego has made numerous solo and group exhibitions, obtaining rewards since 1963. He is represented in the most important museums of Venezuela, as well as in England, Brazil, Colombia and Cuba. In 1986 he was awarded the Municipal Visual Arts Award of the Municipal Council of the Federal District and in 1997 he received the National Prize for Plastic Arts granted by the National Council of Culture, CONAC. Select Group Exhibitions 1964 Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela 1965 Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela 1968 Salón Oficial Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 1971 Art Spectrum London, London, Great Britain 1972 Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain 1973 Midland Group Gallery, London, Great Britain 1974 Galería BANAP, Caracas, Venezuela 1975 Casa de Las Américas, La Habana, Cuba Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas Galería de Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1976 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Museo de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia Bienal de Venecia, Venecia, Italy 1979 Centro de Artes y Comunicación, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1980 Galería NBC, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 1981 Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Medellín, Colombia Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 1986 Museo de Arte La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela 1989 Galería Venzor, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1990 Museo Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile 1992 Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 1993 Museo de Arte de Petare, Caracas, Venezuela Centro de Arte Lia Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1994 Galería Namia Mondolfi, Caracas, Venezuela 1995 Galería Art Nouveau, Maracaibo, Venezuela Galería Cesar Sassòn, Caracas, Venezuela Maremares Resort, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela Galería Durban, Caracas, Venezuela Galería Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela 1996 Centro de Arte Grupo Li, Caracas, Venezuela Galería Uno, Caracas, Venezuela Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela Espacios Unión, Caracas, Venezuela Hebraica, Caracas, Venezuela 1997 Sociedad Dramática, Maracaibo, Venezuela, Venezuela CELARG, Caracas, Venezuela Galería Ocre Arte, Caracas, Venezuela Museo de Arte Contemporáneo , Maracay, Venezuela Galería Medicci, Caracas, Venezuela Awards 1963 Premio Estímulo - IX Salón d’Empaire, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1964 Premio José Ortìn Rodríguez - X Salón d’Empaire, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1965 Primer Premio de Dibujo - III Salón Pez Dorado, Caracas, Venezuela 1968 Premio Henrique Otero Vizcarrondo - XXIV Salón Oficial Anual de Arte Venezolano Museo de Bellas Artes, 1973 Premio Emilio Boggio...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Cafe Society", Surreal Large-Scale Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
"Cafe Society", a large-scale figurative abstract evoking the style of Basquiat, where many faces, figures, and a blue bust with glowing eyes are layered in a surreal, dream-like space by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Signed "Michael Paulker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Colorful 1983 Neo Expressionist Roberto Juarez Oil Painting Tron Family
Located in Surfside, FL
Roberto Juarez, (American, 1952- ) Tron Family. 1983. Signed, dated & titled. Oil and oil stick on canvas. Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery, NY., Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, CA Roberto Juarez (born 1952) is an American visual artist known for his paintings, murals, and mixed-media works. Born in Chicago, (parents of both Mexican and Puerto Rican Latino heritage) Juarez received his B.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute (1977) and pursued graduate studies in Television and Film at the University of California, Los Angeles. Juarez frequently employs painterly floral motifs, which are inspired by the traditions of Hispanic, Latin American and non-Western painting. Roberto Juarez has been a significant presence in the art worlds of New York, Miami, Colorado, and beyond since the early 1980s. In 1978, Juarez completed his graduate thesis for UCLA in Paris and decided not to return to L.A. Juarez relocated to New York City, where in 1981, Ellen Stewart offered Juarez a former garage owned by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club as an artist studio. The space, which had no water or electricity, was offered to Juarez rent-free, provided that he clean and maintain it. He was active in the Neo Expressionist era of the the late 1980's along with Julian Schnabel and David Salle. Throughout the 80s and 90s Juarez painted the branching forms of trees and flowers. While living in Miami in the 90s, Juarez began to incorporate peat moss, rice paper, and other natural materials in his canvases. Since 2000, and his move from Miami back to New York, Juarez's imagery turned more abstract, typically featuring geometric forms and systems. In a review from this period, art critic Grace Glueck noted that his works feature “a contrast between the softness of the grounds – blends of transparent and opaque materials in muted colors – and their strong geometric-organic motifs." In his use of elements of nature to portray an idyllic unity, Juarez looks back to such early-20th-century painters as Franz Marc and Henri Matisse. He has done prints with Shark’s Ink Studios in Lyons and Anderson Ranch Arts Center as well as Tamarind Institute. Roberto Juarez is a visual artist who has been active in the areas of painting, printmaking, drawing, and large-scale public commissions throughout his career. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico, and is included in major museum collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Denver Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Newark Museum, and the Speed Art Museum. He has completed public art projects and murals for the Miami International Airport, Grand Central Terminal, the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, Whitman College, and the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Juarez won the Prix de Rome in 1997 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002. Select Solo Exhibitions Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY Pace Prints New York, NY Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, Bonnie Clearwater, Curator and Author Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Select Group Exhibitions 2018 May China 2018, China National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China 2017 Love Among the Ruins, 56 Bleecker Gallery and Late 80's New York, Howl! Arts Incorporated, New York, NY 2015 Inside the Episode: curated by Jack Pierson, Launch F18 Gallery, New York, NY 2015 MTA Arts Design Illustrates the City, The Museum of American Illustration at The Society of Illustrators, New York 2015 The Annual; National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2008 One of a Kind; Monoprints & Monotypes, Spencertown Academy Art Center, Spencertown, New York 2001 Roberto Juarez and Julio Galan...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil

"Selfie in Hell" Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
"Selfie in Hell", a large-scale figurative abstract evoking the style of Basquiat, where many faces and figures are layered in the chaotic space that is Paulker's hell, by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Signed "Michael Paulker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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 Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Periferia" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 -Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism, Landscape
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Outskirts" Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Senza Narrazione - 2 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 2" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Senza Narrazione - 6 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 6" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Senza Narrazione - 4 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 4" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Senza Narrazione - 3 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 3" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Senza Narrazione - 1 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 1" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Canto pomeridiano" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Afternoon song" Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Composizione" by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Lacquer and Oil on Canvas, NeoExpressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Composition". Lacquer and Oil paint on canvas. This is a diptych.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, Oil

"Affiorano immagini" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Images emerge" Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Paint on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Senza Narrazione - 7 " by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Without narration - 7" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Enamel on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Tre teste" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 - Acrylic Paint on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Three heads" Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Verso il cielo" by Enzio Wenk, 2019 -Enamel on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Up to the sky" Acrylic enamel on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

"Composizione" by Enzio Wenk, 2021-Acrylic on Canvas, Abstract, NeoExpressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Composition". Acrylic paint on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Lilac III" Abstract Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lilac III" Abstract Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"RED POWER" Abstract Painting 57" x 57" inch by Vera Kochubey
Located in Culver City, CA
"RED POWER" Abstract Painting 57" x 57" inch by Vera Kochubey * * * SHIPPED: ROLLED CANVAS * * * The majority of Kochubey’s paintings take the form of heavily symbolic portraits,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

"Lilac I" Abstract Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lilac I" Abstract Painting 20" x 20" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Arrival" Abstract Painting 60" x 86" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arrival" Abstract Painting 60" x 86" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Blade" Black Outline Bunny on a Deep Green Background Oil Painting Wood Panel
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a green background with thick use of paint. Inspire...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"River Between" Painting 66" x 64.5" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"River Between" Painting 66" x 64.5" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Prelude" Abstract Painting 75" x 75" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prelude" Painting 75" x 75" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or is it wha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

"Synesthesia" Acrylic Painting 37" x 35" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Synesthesia" Acrylic Painting 37" x 35" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Stimulus II" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Stimulus II" Painting 39" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator to series of large and medium scale paintings. The fictitious characters in Nabokov’s narrative who act mysteriously around the banal pseudo conflict that faces an urban family –that could be any of us—is transcribed and encrypted by Gaafary on canvas, where lines define accurately shapes and forms that are in themselves flexible and not geometrical. Areas of almost solid colors represent in a diversity of tones and hues the psychological changes that happen to Nabokov’s protagonists in a very well defined space and time. Gaafary’s signs and symbols on another layer resembles mystic ciphers and codes, much reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s post-structuralist essays about the subject, in particular his texts addressing mediation, mass communication and the logic of contemporary symbolic exchange inspired and influenced by anthropologist Marcel Mauss and the Canadian philosopher of communication Marshall McLuhan’s work about the nature of social relations determined by the forms of communication that any given society adopts. Ahmed Gaafary navigates his viewers through realms of personal symbols and signs of a personal narrative. Born In Cairo 1987 Where He Currently Lives And Works. He Received His Bachelor’s Degree In Information Systems In 2008 From The Higher Institute Of Advanced Studies And Followed The Evening Classes (Painting Department)Of Fine Arts Faculty, Helwan University From 2005 To 2007. After His Graduation as an Information System Engineer, He Gave Up His Engineer Practices And Decided To Be An Independent Visual Artist. He Participated In Many Solo And Collaborative Exhibitions,Among Which; Nabokov Signs Exhibition In Etejah Gallery, Palace Of Arts In Cairo Opera House In 2016, Kamal Khalifa Gallery At The Gezira Art Center In 2012. Beit El Umma Gallery At Saad Zaghloul Center In 2012, Engy Aflaton Gallery In Cairo Atelier at 2010, Ahmed Nagy Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2009, Tahya Halim Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2008, Salon Of Youth Exhibition In Palace Of Arts From 2008 To 2015, The Mediterranean Symposium In 2010. He Also Participated In The Following Workshops In Cairo In 2008 At The Cairo Opera House, The Fine Arts Sector Cultural Workshop And In The Mahmoud Mukhtar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

"Extension" Abstract Acrylic Painting 37" x 35" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Extension" Acrylic Painting 37" x 35" inch by Ahmed Gaafary Primitive Life To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled, 2013, red, color field, abstract
Located in New York, NY
24 x 24" Abstract oil painting by Russell Sharon done in 2013. Bright red and white separated by a dark line, painting done with expressive painterly br...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sonia" Black Bunny on Purple Background Oil Painting on Wood Panel Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a Purple Lavender background with thick use of pain...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Untitled" Red and White Tulip on Forest Green Background Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's newest series, Tulips. This piece depicts gestural figure of a red and white Tulip on a forest green background with thick use of paint. In...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies Two black gestured black bunnies on a solid hot pink background. Framed in an antique wooden gold frame. Unframed: 14 x 10 inches Framed: ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Oil

"New Dawn" Mixed media Painting 59" x 43" in by Emanuele Tozzoli
Located in Culver City, CA
"New Dawn" Mixed media Painting 59" x 43" in by Emanuele Tozzoli Mixed media on canvas ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Italy in 1989, Emanuele discovered painting in the very first yea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

"Hibiscus" Bunny on Light Lavender Pink Background Oil Painting on Wood Panel
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a light pink background with thick use of paint. It...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

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