Art movement; architectural style.
A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.
1 In Germany, French classicism had got an even firmer hold than in England.
2 The Revolution even intensified the reigning classicism by giving it a republican turn.
3 We regard as a decided mistake the revived classicism of the last generation.
4 The green glass Lever Building of Park Avenue up against brutish Stalinist classicism .
5 Johnson's version is a shapeless blob of intuition, half-learned history and cod classicism .
6 It is now opposed to realism, as it was once opposed to classicism .
7 But in Britain, classicism prevailed, interrupted by the odd flourish of art deco.
8 Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.
9 Haydn did not want to revolt against classicism , nor even pseudo-classicism.
10 He became the lawgiver, the founder of classicism , the formulator of the academic ideal.
11 The danger of arbitrary egoism is quite as great as the danger of classicism .
12 It lacks the self-complacent unreasonableness of Board of Works classicism .
13 This marriage of 21st-century urban sass with mid-century couture classicism was a happy one.
14 Chavannes's faraway, mysterious figures influenced the classicism of some of Picasso's early representational paintings.
15 That accounts for the somewhat florid classicism , and the melodic intensity, of his prose.
16 That Christian expression and classicism were incompatible, he never believed.
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