• A Neomodernist picture manifests the Idea in the Hegelian sense meaning the Absolute, the spiritual presence in a work of art.
• A Neomodernist picture has links to the works of art that preceded it and / or antiquity.
• The nude or the symbol of the nude is the basis of a Neomodernist picture.
• Every element in a Neomodernist picture is justified in terms of the whole composition.
• A Neomodernist approach to religious subject matter is detached and philosophical, never an affirmation of faith.
• A Neomodernist treatment of political or historical subject matter is detached and philosophical, never propaganda.
• A Neomodernist artist must have sound drawing abilities and a command of the other traditional academic disciplines, such as perspective.
• A Neomodernist picture concentrates the soul in the eye.
• A Neomodernist work of art is emblematic rather than psychological.
• A Neomodernist figurative or abstract picture has Albertian depth, space and light, never stressing the flatness of the canvas surface but exploring its limitless depths.
• A Neomodernist picture presents scientific principles aesthetically (La Flagellazione, Piero Della Francesca).
• A Neomodernist work of art hightens the sense of newness, regardless of when it was made.
• A Neomodernist work of art is tactile.
• Simplicity of form is Neomodernist.
• A Neomodernist work of art has movement and stillness simultaneously.
• Both figurative and abstract Neomodernist pictures pronounce "painterly" values.
• Neomodernism precedes and supersedes post-modernism.

The following list of pictures epitomises works of art with Neomodernist criterion. It does not include every Neomodernist picture by each artist listed but one example of their work that demonstrates a Neomodernist approach and philosophy.

• Fayum Portraits are Neomodernist.
• Some Italian Mannerist paintings are Neomodernist.
• Most pictures and frescoes by Rosso Fiorentino and Jacobo Pontormo are Neomodernist.
• Some modernist works of art are Neomodernist.