The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 188 - 189 Flashcards

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Neo-Expressionism

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  • revived angular distortions and strong emotional content of German Expressionism
  • brought back such banished features as recognizable content, historical reference, subjectivity, and social comment
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Kiefer: Scorched Earth

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  • Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945)

- represents his central motif through thick, dark paint mixed with sand and straw

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Clemente: Body Language

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  • Francesco Clemente (b 1952)

- portrays nightmarish, hallucinatory states of mind through images of fragmentary body parts

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Baselitz: The World Turned Upside Down

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  • Georg Baselitz (b. 1938)

- led, with Beuys, the revival of German Expresisonism

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Basquiat: The Wild Child

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  • Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-88)
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