What is Neo-Humanism Painting.

Claudio Ghirardo began his journey buying comics, "I took art throughout high school and was accepted into the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art, Inc. in New Jersey. While studying at the school. I would take trips into NY and was changed when I visited the Museum of Modern Art. I graduated and began working as a freelance illustrator doing work for many magazines, books, newsletters, and design studios. I kept visiting galleries and spent time reading books and watching videos about modern and contemporary art. I did do some exhibitions and sold quite a few of my paintings but felt something was missing, a personal viewpoint to my artwork. Things changed when one day while I was drawing a figure. I wasn't able to draw the arm the way I wanted to and got so frustrated that I drew the arm with three joints. I was about to erase the arm but then looked at it closely and saw there was something interesting happening. I began to experiment with distorting the limbs, cutting up the face and developing the "introspective eye". Showing my work to a art history professor friend of mine, he termed it 'Neo-Humanism': As the classical paintings expressed the humanity of that time, I am now expressing the humanity of today's people."