neoclassicism
Ancient aesthetics reborn
Neoclassicism is a revival of classical Greek and Roman styles in art, architecture, literature, or music.
The term usually refers to the 18th-century movement that emphasized order, symmetry, and restraint as a reaction against Baroque excess: The building's columns and pediment are pure neoclassicism.
In music, it describes the early 20th-century turn away from Romantic emotionalism toward formal clarity. (Capitalized Neoclassicism often designates the specific 18th-century movement.)
Methodical arrangement or request
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
restraint · clarity · idealism · rationality · formality · elegance · refinement · nobility
Recrystallized limestone rock
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- idealizedMade to seem perfect
- draperyOrnamental hanging cloth
- stoicUncomplaining endurer of hardship
heroic · nobility · antiquity · mythology · allegory · Wedgwood · contour · line
Upright structural shafts
- pedimentTriangular architectural crowning element
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- VitruviusRoman architectural theorist
- entablatureBeam structure on columns
cornice · frieze · pilasters · balustrade · Doric · Ionic · Corinthian · capitals
- ProkofievTwentieth-century Russian composer
- clarityState of being understandable
- restraintControl over impulses
- formShape or document
counterpoint · sonata · concerto · symphony · objectivity · balance · structure · formalism
Rhymed pentameter pair
- Alexander PopeGeorgian era versifier
- Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
- satireMockery exposing vice
- odeLaudatory verse form
elegy · pastoral · didactic · decorum · mimesis · verisimilitude · wit · fable
Ornate artistic period
- RococoLavishly ornamented decorative style
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- Federal styleEarly American neoclassical architecture
Beaux-Arts · historicism · revival · reaction · tradition
order
Methodical arrangement or request
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- proportionComparative relation of parts
symmetry · restraint · clarity · idealism · rationality · formality · elegance · refinement · nobility · grandeur
marble
Recrystallized limestone rock
stoic · heroic · nobility · antiquity · mythology · allegory · Wedgwood · contour · line
columns
Upright structural shafts
- pedimentTriangular architectural crowning element
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- VitruviusRoman architectural theorist
entablature · cornice · frieze · pilasters · balustrade · Doric · Ionic · Corinthian · capitals · arcades
Stravinsky
- ProkofievTwentieth-century Russian composer
- clarityState of being understandable
- restraintControl over impulses
form · counterpoint · sonata · concerto · symphony · objectivity · balance · structure · formalism · polyphony
heroic couplet
Rhymed pentameter pair
- Alexander PopeGeorgian era versifier
- Jonathan SwiftDublin's savage satirist
- satireMockery exposing vice
ode · elegy · pastoral · didactic · decorum · mimesis · verisimilitude · wit · fable · allegory
Baroque
Ornate artistic period
- RococoLavishly ornamented decorative style
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
Federal style · Beaux-Arts · historicism · revival · reaction · tradition
- fine artsfine art, fine arts, painting, visual arts, sculpture
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms
- paintingoil painting, watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
neoclassicismromanticism
Emotional, imaginative worldview
Romanticism · baroque · rococo · expressionism · emotionalism
neoclassicismavant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
futurism · Futurism · modernism · Dadaism · experimentalism