Famous neo expressionist artists

The Life Of Jean Michel Basquiat: La Vida de Jean-Michel Basquiat
(Lil' Libros Bilingual English/Spanish)

Description

Introduce your little ones to the famous graffiti artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, in both English and Spanish.Known for his contributions to graffiti and neo-expressionism, Jean-Michel Basquiat became one of the youngest household names in the world of art. The Haitian-Puerto Rican prodigy used his obsessive scribbling and skull designs to paint his legacy through New York--and worldwide.

Parents will discover this biography book on Basquiat to be an encouraging story to their little ones hoping to express themselves through creativity, imagination, and, most importantly, perseverance.

Presente a sus pequeños al famoso grafitero Jean-Michel Basquiat, tanto en inglés como en español. Conocido por sus contribuciones al grafiti y al neoexpresionismo, Jean-Michel Basquiat se convirtió en uno de los nombres familiares más jóvenes en el mundo del arte. El prodigio haitiano-puertorriqueño usó sus obsesivos garabatos y diseños de calaveras para pintar su legado

Summary of Neo-Expressionism

Many artists have practiced and revived aspects of the original Expressionism movement its peak at the beginning of the 20th century, but the most famous return to Expressionism was inaugurated by Georg Baselitz, who led a revival that dominated German art in the 1970s. By the 1980s, this resurgence had become part of an international return to the sensuousness of painting - and away from the stylistically cool, distant sparseness of Minimalism and Conceptualism. Very different artists, especially in the United States, from Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente to Jean-Michel Basquiat, turned in expressive directions to create work that affirmed the redemptive power of art in general and painting in particular, drawing upon a variety of themes including the mythological, the cultural, the historical, the nationalist, and the erotic.

Key Ideas & Accomplishments

  • The Neo-Expressionist artists depicted their subjects in an almost raw and brutish manner, newly resurrecting in their frequently large-scale works, the highly textural and expressive br

    Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists is the first survey on the obscure and fascinating phenomenon of record labels founded and run by visual artists. It reflects on the way these extra-artistic activities contribute to... more

    Can You Hear Me? Music Labels by Visual Artists is the first survey on the obscure and fascinating phenomenon of record labels founded and run by visual artists. It reflects on the way these extra-artistic activities contribute to redefining the role of the contemporary artist as a catalyst of intellectual energies and producer of cultural processes at large. Moreover, it tries to understand if and how these activities challenged the art world’s static and modern perception of art and art works.

    Spanning 1980 to 2015, the project consists in a book and an exhibition that celebrate the contemporary artist as a multi faceted producer of collaborative projects. The highlighted labels have released a dynamic spectrum of activities in and outside the art world and remained untouched by its unwritten capitalist code, attempting to develop alternative

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