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

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