neoclassicism

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Nunes is a self-taught D.C. painter whose style draws on European neoclassicism as well as pop realism, and whose topics are mostly derived from his formative years in Brazil.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

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

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