Exploring German neo-expressionist painting

In the 20th century, with the emergence of modernist and post-modernist art, artists opposed the traditional forms of art creation and began to wander between reality and illusion in a variety of styles, taking the mode of thinking and inner emotional cognition of art creation as the primary proposition. New concepts, materials and media began to break through the boundaries of painting. As a result, a variety of painting styles emerged, such as expressionism. Neo-expressionism is further developed from expressionism, and after decades of development, its influence on the contemporary oil painting style is getting bigger and bigger. Among the many contemporary oil painting artists, a considerable number of them are also influenced by neo-expressionism. They constantly combine this Western art with traditional Chinese local culture and art, and explore the development of local oil painting by themselves. This paper briefly analyzes some basic factors of neo-expressionism, so as to have a certain understanding of itself; then analyzes the factors in the process of its evolution, explaining the process of evolution; and finally analyzes its influence on the development of Chinese oil painting. All these can help to understand neo-expressionism better, and also understand the development trend of local oil painting.