Editing Mannerism (section)

==Neo-Mannerism==
In the 20th century, the rise of Neo-Mannerism stemmed from artist [[Ernie Barnes]]. The style was heavily influenced by both the Jewish Community, as well as the African-American Community, leading to "The Beauty of the Ghetto" exhibition between 1972 and 1979. The Exhibition toured major American cities, and was hosted by dignitaries, professional athletes, and celebrities. When the exhibition was on view in 1974 at the [[National Museum of African Art|Museum of African Art]] in Washington, D.C., Rep. [[John Conyers]] stressed the important positive message of the exhibit in the ''[[Congressional Record]]''.

The style of Neo-Mannerism, as developed by Barnes, includes subjects with elongated limbs and bodies, as well as exaggerated movement. Another common theme was closed eyes of the subjects, as a visual representation of "how blind we are to one another's humanity".<ref>Barnes, Ernie. Interview, "Personal Diaries" with Ed Gordon, BET, 1990.</ref> "We look upon each other and decide immediately: This person is black, so he must be&nbsp;... This person lives in poverty, so he must be&nbsp;...".

===Theatre and cinema===
In an interview, film director [[Peter Greenaway]] mentions [[Federico Fellini]] and [[Bill Viola]] as two major inspirations for his exhaustive and self-referential play with the insoluble tension between the database form of images and the various analogous and digital interfaces that structure them cinematically. This play can be called neo-mannerist precisely insofar as it is distinguished from the (neo-)baroque: "Just as Roman Catholicism would offer you paradise and heaven, there is an equivalent commercial paradise being offered very largely by the whole capitalistic effect, which is associated with Western cinema. This is my political analogy in terms of the use of multimedia as a political weapon. I would equate, in a sense, the great baroque Counter-Reformation, its cultural activity, with what cinema, American cinema predominantly, has been doing in the last seventy years."<ref>Greenway, Peter. Interview, "Cinema of Ideas" with Henk Oosterling, 2001.</ref>

===As a term of criticism===
According to art critic [[Jerry Saltz]], "Neo-Mannerism" (new Mannerism) is among several clichés that are "squeezing the life out of the art world."<ref name="saltz">{{Cite news |title=Jerry Saltz on Art's Insidious New Cliché: Neo-Mannerism |last=Saltz |first=Jerry |author-link=Jerry Saltz |url=http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/jerry-saltz-on-arts-insidious-new-clich.html |work=Vulture |date=10 October 2013 |access-date=16 August 2014}}</ref> Neo-Mannerism describes art of the 21st century that is turned out by students whose academic teachers "have scared [them] into being pleasingly meek, imitative, and ordinary".<ref name="saltz" />