classicism
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But even a mega-firm that typically builds in a futuristic style can form a partnership with a design architect who’s an expert in classicism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Later in Lucerne, he took master classes with Edwin Fischer, the musician credited by Brendel with having the most enduring influence on him, and teaching him to play passionately within the bounds of classicism.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Its steps are rooted in classicism with careful attention to detail, but not full of fussy details.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
More nuanced and more revealing is Wills’s other remark—that “Everett’s classicism was as much the forerunner of Lincoln’s talk as its foil or contrast.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
