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Francesco Clemente, (born March 23, 1952, Naples Italy), Italian painter and draftsman whose dramatic figural imagery was a major component in the revitalization of Italian art beginning in the 1980s.Clemente moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture at the University of Rome and soon started working as a visual artist. His intense and expressive portrayals of the human body?sometimes his own?have a stark and moody quality that helped define what critics came to call Neo-Expressionism, a movement away from the intellectualization and abstraction that had characterized much of European and American painting of the 1970s. Bold and confrontational, often with sexual content and allegorical aspirations, Clemente?s work?together with that of artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, and Sandro Chia?fed a renewal of international interest in European art during the 1980s.
Source :https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francesco-Clemente