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
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
This, of course, would be the film-school neoclassicism of the New Hollywood.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2015
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
It is this opposition, then, of neoclassicism and rationalism, that constitutes the basic issue of pastoral criticism in England during the Restoration and the early part of the eighteenth century.
From De Carmine Pastorali (1684) by Congleton, J. E. (James Edmund)
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