An enchanting Expressionist picture of 1908 by Lyonel Feininger, "Locomotive," spiced with the artist's typical touch of whimsy, sold, only just, for £1.49 million, thus broadly matching the $2.14 million that it had realized at Sotheby's New York on Nov. 7, 2006.
Art historian Jonathan Fineberg describes a Lichtenstein painting of 1960 as an "...abstract expressionist picture with Mickey Mouse in it, related stylistically to the de Kooning Women".
These works were a riposte to abstract-expressionist pictures, such as Jackson Pollock's "drip" paintings; the compositions were more radical and the process of producing them more intense.
Speaking of jazz babes, you should get a load of the long-limbed, languorous, lovelorn women in "Jazz," a book of jazz-inspired poems for all ages written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated with slithery, moody, neo-expressionist pictures by his son Christopher Myers.
This midcareer survey ranges from erotically suggestive Neo-Expressionist pictures of people in landscapes, done in the 1980's, to recent narrative canvases made like banners that include, like most of the artist's work from the last decade, borders of sumptuous African fabrics.
A big, Cubist-Expressionist picture of a tenement neighborhood, brusquely painted in gaudy colors by Tal R, seems to have wandered in from another exhibition.
Too much else here reads as a fairly routine and sometimes quite lazy graft of the two opposing forces of 1980s art — Neo-Expressionist painting and Pictures Art — which weren't so far apart anyway.
But there is also a reductive side to this process: the expanses of color and texture in Mr. Fair's pictures often bring to mind slick, printed versions of Abstract Expressionist painting.
The strongest single artistic influence in motion-picture set design was the German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, which combined elements of Max Reinhardt's theatre, a Wagnerian philosophy of doom, and Expressionist painting and graphics.
