The term neo-expressionism describes the art movement that dominated the art market in the early and mid-1980s. The word "neo" refers to a revival of previous ideas or trends. Expressionism was a style from around the time of World War I that was highly personal and was often executed with violen...

In the artistic realm, the artist's thought process is morphologically transformed through the art materials and forms into signs, symbols, and imagery. Signs and symbols play a dominant role in 20th Century art; the artist used this medium as a language to portray intentions of varying differences...

Among the leading painters of post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement, Franz Kline developed his own highly personal form of art based more on "spontaneous expression in abstract design of the artist's psychic states."1 Abstract expressionism saw representation as the exact opposite of...