Neoclassicism

Word NEOCLASSICISM
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Definitions and meanings of "Neoclassicism"

What do we mean by neoclassicism?

A revival of classical aesthetics and forms, especially. noun

A revival in literature in the late 1600s and 1700s, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, and restraint. noun

A revival in the 1700s and 1800s in architecture and art, especially in the decorative arts, characterized by order, symmetry, and simplicity of style. noun

A movement in music lasting roughly from 1915 to 1940 that sought to avoid subjective emotionalism and to return to the style of the pre-Romantic composers. noun

Any of various intellectual movements that embrace a set of traditional principles regarded as fundamental or authoritative. noun

The character of being neoclassic; revival of classic style in art or literature. noun

A revival of the classical Greek and Roman style in art or literature. noun

Any of several movements in the arts, architecture, literature and music that revived forms from earlier centuries noun

Revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation noun

Any of several movements in the arts, architecture, literature and music that revived forms from earlier centuries.

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The word "neoclassicism" in example sentences

The highest expression of nineteenth century neoclassicism is seen in the wonderful mural, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, by Jacobo Gálvez and Gerardo Suárez on the dome of the Degollado Theater. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What this all led to, in a sense, was a movement that later was called neoclassicism, a kind of a going back to older forms, smaller forces, just cutting back, in general. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He thinks she found them old-fashioned: too dynamic and passionate, in contrast to the restrained neoclassicism that was becoming fashionable in the 1770s. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

The works cover nearly three centuries, from the last years of the Renaissance around 1525 to the neoclassicism output in the 19th Century. ❋ Jacqueline Trescott (2010)

Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixAs we wrote behind in July, this is "retro cocktail hyper-focused upon a futuristic reimagination of postmodernism as good as neoclassicism as proletarian touchstones ... that we can dance to." ❋ Admin (2009)

Modernity and classicism also meet in Theme and Variations, Balanchine's setting of Tchaikovsky that evokes the grandeur of imperial Russian ballet with the speed and dexterity of 20th-century American neoclassicism. ❋ Judith Mackrell (2010)

In their version of Go For Barocco, the tics and quirks of Balanchine's neoclassicism are beautifully captured, and completing the programme are a range of "mystery pas de deux". ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was influenced by neoclassicism but reinterpreted with her colors and shapes in a unique and never outdated way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After that, though, comes Martinu°'s first piano trio, a set of five miniatures couched ina rather vapid Stravinskyan neoclassicism that all theFlorestans 'deftness can't bring tolife, and Petr Eben's much moreintense, but ultimately rather overwrought Piano Trio of 1986. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Composer Stefania de Kenessey is a leading figure in the revival of neoclassicism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To me it is also the cenotaph of neoclassicism – the resting place of this ambitious and intense vision of moral greatness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I once used every cliche about neoclassicism to smear Canova ❋ Unknown (2010)

As architects began to look back at the history modernists had discarded, his interest grew in the neoclassicism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2010)

In the 1920s and 1930s, American architects became increasingly interested in modernist design as an alternative to what they thought was unoriginal, formulaic Greek and Roman neoclassicism, still the preferred architectural language for federal architecture in Washington. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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