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

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 • Aug. 12, 2019

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

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)