neue wilden
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
Term used in Germany for neo-expressionism, the re-emergence of expressive painting in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Example Sentences
- "Like other neo-expressive movements of this era, the work of the Neue Wilden (i.e. new Fauves), is characterised by bright, intense colours and quick, broad brushstrokes, and can be seen to have arisen in opposition to the then dominant avant-garde movements of minimal art and conceptual art."