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
In the nineteen-forties and fifties, Langlois’s Cinémathèque Française was the key place where the future filmmakers of the French New Wave learned about movies by watching movies—where the romance of cinematic neoclassicism was born.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2014
Looked at through the lens of today’s painting revival, driven by artists romping through styles from Surrealism to neoclassicism, the paintings seem almost sophisticated in their slapstick simplicity.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 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
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
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Art History
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