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UK
/klˈæsɪsˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˈkɫæsɪˌsɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫæsɪˌsɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
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a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans
How To Use classicism In A Sentence
- The writings of the century are here arranged in three main divisions: the reign of formalism (miscalled classicism), the revival of romantic poetry, and the development of the modern novel. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
- His ring classicism has always argued so persuasively against excessive physical harm, his pride was beyond anything but a regal exit.
- 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. Murals come to life in the Florence of Mexico: Guadalajara
- From the dawning of Greek Classicism to well beyond the Italian Renaissance, artists learned to faithfully master contrapposto, linear perspective, and the like in order to achieve the great, mythic aspiration of beauty. Rebecca Taylor: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Baldessari
- The most powerful impulse of the time can be summed up as neoclassicism, a reversion to the purist attempts of the Renaissance to reproduce classical models.
- Just as dodecaphony never followed a monolithic party line, neither did neoclassicism.
- The works cover nearly three centuries, from the last years of the Renaissance around 1525 to the neoclassicism output in the 19th Century. Next Spring, it's La Dolce D.C.
- He was also influenced, though, by ancient Roman architecture and Scandinavian modern classicism.
- With their sculptural groupings of precisely calibrated arabesques, these dances distilled Ashton's personal classicism to pure essence.
- It starts with three friends with deeply personal agendas to condemn fascism, elitism, classicism, racism and sexism.