neoclassicism

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Sallée’s model’s pose, with her arms up, removing the pins from her hairpiece, is more reminiscent of Degas’s unselfconscious bathers than of Ingres’s chilly neoclassicism.

From Washington Post

One little-reported story is that the Trump administration has mandated neoclassicism as the official architectural style for federal buildings.

From Salon

The draft order, dispiritingly titled Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again, argues that neoclassicism symbolises the founding fathers’ “self-governing ideals”, whereas contemporary styles such as brutalism and deconstructivism are incapable of embodying America’s “national values”.

From The Guardian

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

“It’s like, hipster neoclassicism. I think an artist’s role is to weave the collective human experience into a narrative; to distil the most interesting aspects for posterity.”

From The Guardian