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  • n  an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings

  • When neoexpressionism arrived in the early '80s, it was as though an army of Bronze Age hectors had assembled, chanting hoarsely of sex, anxiety, death and egotism, leaving long .
  • Three or four years ago, when the surprise of new figurative painting coming out of Europe was still fresh, when American critics were slapping the label of neoexpressionism on .
  • Today neoexpressionism, the obsession of the early '80s, has run its course and is nearly as dead as mutton.

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