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Abstract
The Surrealist influence on contemporary New York painters has been so pervasive that it has spawned a Pophybrid style with a label legitimized through widespread usage: neo-Surrealism. It is a commentary on the state of our culture that we seem to have embarked on an era of “neo” and “post” everything. Let us say that the prefix “neo” attached to a stylistic label signifies the knowing use of that style as a convention, as opposed to the fashioning of a new imagery in order to express the heretofore inexpressible. Yet, it may be that such a knowing use of style itself says something new: that the self-consciousness of today's artists is unprecedented; that the art world gobbles its tail and only gets bigger.
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Stephen Westfall
Stephen Westfall, a frequent contributor to Art in America and Arts, is an artist and writer living in New York.