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/nˌiːəʊklˈæsɪsˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
How To Use neoclassicism In A Sentence
- As befits the theme and Gluck's intentions, the sets and costumes forego the company's usual baroque opulence for the clean lines of neoclassicism.
- These buildings look north across Prince's Street Gardens to the contrasting world of the Georgian New Town, the embodiment of enlightened neoclassicism.
- Pure neoclassicism now lost ground to Italian Renaissance styles, more adaptable to modern uses.
- In this way, neoclassicism's insistent formalism did little to close the gap between style and meaning.
- The most usual decorative themes in penwork are neoclassicism, chinoiserie, and floral subjects.
- Known for his neoclassicism and clean black-and-white aesthetic, Ritts captured a sensual, serene inner beauty that seemed to elevate his subjects to mythic status.
- Deduce a neoclassicism , cooperate the mesa with plump and smooth-skinned colour and lustre, the Wen Wan that reflects goodwife is temperamental, tell about white dream to us.
- Since I'd had my fill of postmodernist neoclassicism by the early '90s, Georges's ‘Temple’ paintings seemed rather ham-fisted to me at the time.
- Yet the treatment of the subject is perfectly in keeping with the canons of Neoclassicism, with its theatrical grouping of figures, idealised faces, its emphasis on drawing rather than colour and with its smooth and glossy paint surface.
- Although his work clearly shows their influence, he was able to find his own distinctive voice - in some fashion a combination of expressionism and neoclassicism.