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classicism

[ klas-uh-siz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome.
  2. adherence to such principles.
  3. the classical style in literature and art, or adherence to its principles ( romanticism ). Compare classical ( def 7 ).
  4. a Greek or Latin idiom or form, especially one used in some other language.
  5. classical scholarship or learning.


classicism

/ 藞kl忙s瑟藢s瑟z蓹m; 藞kl忙s瑟k蓹藢l瑟z蓹m /

noun

  1. a style based on the study of Greek and Roman models, characterized by emotional restraint and regularity of form, associated esp with the 18th century in Europe; the antithesis of romanticism Compare neoclassicism
  2. knowledge or study of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome
    1. a Greek or Latin form or expression
    2. an expression in a modern language, such as English, that is modelled on a Greek or Latin form
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

classicism

  1. An approach to aesthetics that favors restraint, rationality, and the use of strict forms in literature, painting, architecture, and other arts. It flourished in ancient Greece and Rome , and throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Classicists often derived their models from the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Notes

Classicism is sometimes considered the opposite of romanticism .
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠濒补蝉路蝉颈路肠颈蝉路迟颈肠 [klas-, uh, -, sis, -tik], adjective
  • 补苍顎卼颈路肠濒补蝉顎僺颈路肠补濒路颈蝉尘 noun
  • 补苍顎卼颈路肠濒补蝉顎僺颈路肠颈蝉尘 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of classicism1

First recorded in 1820鈥30; classic + -ism
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But the woman in her sculpture, made early in her tenure working in the busy studio of Auguste Rodin, leaves classicism far behind.

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Designed by a team of architects, it blends elements of classicism with modernity.

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So, there is a classicism aspect to it.

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鈥淭he Great Lillian Hall鈥 is not afraid to embrace its classicism; had it been made in the 1940s, it would have starred Bette Davis.

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The artist, now 89, draws from the improvisatory impulses of jazz, the power of Abstract Expressionism, the eclectic excessiveness of assemblage and the academic classicism of Renaissance painting.

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