neoclassicism
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Throughout the roaring decade, she became known for her impeccable techniques and her mixing of influences: cubism and neoclassicism, stillness and speed, past and future.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2022
Although the initial response was strong, the composer’s Art Nouveau aesthetic came to seem dated amid the rapidly moving trends of the twenties: twelve-tone music, Stravinskyan neoclassicism, the music theatre of Kurt Weill.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
The artist’s version of an Eastern Orthodox icon depicts Russian-born Touchstone director Ksenia Grishkova — not a saint or a goddess, perhaps, but exalted by Levinson’s neon-hued neoclassicism.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
Original music by Michaël Attias — for cello and piano, blending neoclassicism with spiky atonal passages — provides elegant underscoring between scenes.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2011
In attempting to express this, Trapp is in touch with what is best in neoclassicism.
From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph
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Art History
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Understanding Literary Forms: The Oral Tradition & Analyze Literature
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