neoclassicist
Ancient style reviver
A neoclassicist is someone who practices or advocates neoclassicism—a return to the styles and principles of classical Greek and Roman art, architecture, or literature.
The term applies to artists, architects, writers, or critics who favor order, symmetry, and restraint over romantic or experimental approaches: The neoclassicists rejected the ornate excesses of the Baroque.
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- WinckelmannGreek art theorist
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- reasonBasis or justification
virtue · morality · didacticism · civic · republicanism · ennobling · elevation · edification
Masculine Hebrew name
- WinckelmannGreek art theorist
- academicRelating to education or theory
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
canvas · studio · commission · salon · patronage · exhibition · masterpiece · heroic
Invariance under transformation
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
idealism · purity · austerity · decorum · restraint · clarity · elegance · grandeur
Enlightenment
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- WinckelmannGreek art theorist
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
reason · virtue · morality · didacticism · civic · republicanism · ennobling · elevation · edification · grand tour
David
Masculine Hebrew name
- WinckelmannGreek art theorist
- academicRelating to education or theory
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
marble · canvas · studio · commission · salon · patronage · exhibition · masterpiece · heroic · tableau
symmetry
Invariance under transformation
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
order · idealism · purity · austerity · decorum · restraint · clarity · elegance · grandeur · nobility
Greece
Balkan peninsula nation
Homeric · toga · laurel · column · pediment · frieze · acanthus · pantheon · forum · temple
Adam
First created man
rotunda · facade · entablature · cornice · pilaster · pediment · capitol · monument · villa · Doric
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
neoclassicistromantic
Conducive to love
romanticist · expressionist · sentimentalist · primitivist · irrationalist
neoclassicistmodernist
Advocate of experimental forms
avant-gardist · futurist · iconoclast · experimentalist · innovator