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From neo- + expressionism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A style of late modernist or early postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s as a reaction against the minimal and conceptual art of that time, and was characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials. Full definition →
From neo- + expressionism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.