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
Like punk puncturing disco, the exhibit energized what was still an insular American architectural community by offering an alternative to the Reagan-era pop neoclassicism of Postmodernism.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016
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
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
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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