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- brought back such banished features as recognizable content, historical reference, subjectivity, and social comment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)