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Henry Fuseli, The artist moved to despair at the grandeur of antiquarian fragments, 1778–79

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos and κλασσικός klassikòs classicus)^[1] is the proper noun given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. Neoclassicism was born in Rome in the mid-18th century, only its popularity spread all over Europe, as a generation of European art students finished their Yard Tour and returned from Italia to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals.^[ii] The master Neoclassical motility coincided with the 18th-century Historic period of Enlightenment, and continued into the early on 19th century, latterly competing with Romanticism. In architecture, the style continued throughout the 19th, 20th and up to the 21st century.

European Neoclassicism in the visual arts began c. 1760 in opposition to the and so-ascendant Baroque and Rococo styles. Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, decoration and disproportion; Neoclassical architecture is based on the principles of simplicity and symmetry, which were seen equally virtues of the arts of Rome and Ancient Greece, and were more than immediately drawn from 16th-century Renaissance Classicism. Each "neo"-classicism selects some models among the range of possible classics that are available to information technology, and ignores others. The neoclassical writers and talkers, patrons and collectors, artists and sculptors of 1765–1830 paid homage to an thought of the generation of Phidias, but the sculpture examples they actually embraced were more than likely to exist Roman copies of Hellenistic sculptures. They ignored both Archaic Greek art and the works of Late Antiquity. The "Rococo" fine art of ancient Palmyra came as a revelation, through engravings in Wood'southward The Ruins of Palmyra. Fifty-fifty Hellenic republic was all-but-unvisited, a crude backwater of the Ottoman Empire, dangerous to explore, then neoclassicists' appreciation of Greek architecture was mediated through drawings and engravings, which subtly smoothed and regularized, "corrected" and "restored" the monuments of Greece, non always consciously.

1 Overview
2 Painting and printmaking
3 Sculpture
4 Architecture and the decorative arts
five Neoclassical gardens
half-dozen Neoclassicism and fashion
seven Later "Neoclassicisms"
- 7.1 In music
- 7.two Architecture in Russia and the Soviet Union
- 7.3 Architecture in the 21st century
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 Farther reading
12 External links

Overview

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, frequently chosen "the begetter of archaeology"^[3]

Neoclassicism is a revival of the styles and spirit of archetype artifact inspired straight from the classical menstruation,^[four] which coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy and other areas of the Historic period of Enlightenment, and was initially a reaction confronting the excesses of the preceding Rococo style.^[5] While the movement is often described equally the opposed analogue of Romanticism, this is a great over-simplification that tends not to exist sustainable when specific artists or works are considered. The case of the supposed principal champion of late Neoclassicism, Ingres, demonstrates this especially well.^[6] The revival tin can be traced to the establishment of formal archæology.^[7] ^[8]

The writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann were of import in shaping this movement in both compages and the visual arts. His books Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1750) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art", 1764) were the first to distinguish sharply between Ancient Greek and Roman fine art, and ascertain periods within Greek art, tracing a trajectory from growth to maturity and then imitation or decadence that continues to have influence to the present solar day. Winckelmann believed that art should aim at "noble simplicity and calm grandeur",^[nine] and praised the idealism of Greek art, in which he said we detect "not just nature at its most beautiful but also something beyond nature, namely certain ideal forms of its beauty, which, as an ancient interpreter of Plato teaches us, come up from images created by the mind alone". The theory was very far from new in Western art, but his emphasis on close copying of Greek models was: "The only way for united states of america to become great or if this exist possible, inimitable, is to imitate the ancients".^[ten]

With the advent of the M Bout, a fad of collecting antiquities began that laid the foundations of many keen collections spreading a Neoclassical revival throughout Europe.^[xi] "Neoclassicism" in each fine art implies a particular canon of a "classical" model.

In English, the term "Neoclassicism" is used primarily of the visual arts; the similar motility in English literature, which began considerably earlier, is called Augustan literature. This, which had been dominant for several decades, was beginning to decline past the time Neoclassicism in the visual arts became stylish. Though terms differ, the situation in French literature was similar. In music, the menstruation saw the rise of classical music, and "neoclassicism" is used of 20th-century developments. All the same, the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck represented a specifically neoclassical approach, spelt out in his preface to the published score of Alceste (1769), which aimed to reform opera by removing decoration, increasing the role of the chorus in line with Greek tragedy, and using simpler unadorned melodic lines.^[12]

The term "Neoclassical" was non invented until the mid-19th century, and at the time the style was described past such terms as "the true fashion", "reformed" and "revival"; what was regarded equally being revived varying considerably. Ancient models were certainly very much involved, but the style could also be regarded as a revival of the Renaissance, and especially in France as a return to the more than ascetic and noble Baroque of the historic period of Louis XIV, for which a considerable nostalgia had developed as France's ascendant military and political position started a serious decline.^[13] Ingres'southward coronation portrait of Napoleon even borrowed from Tardily Antique consular diptychs and their Carolingian revival, to the disapproval of critics.

Neoclassicism was strongest in compages, sculpture and the decorative arts, where classical models in the aforementioned medium were relatively numerous and accessible; examples from aboriginal painting that demonstrated the qualities that Winckelmann'due south writing plant in sculpture were and are lacking. Winckelmann was involved in the dissemination of noesis of the first large Roman paintings to exist discovered, at Pompeii and Herculaneum and, like virtually contemporaries except for Gavin Hamilton, was unimpressed by them, citing Pliny the Younger'due south comments on the decline of painting in his menstruation.^[14]

Equally for painting, Greek painting was utterly lost: neoclassicist painters imaginatively revived information technology, partly through bas-relief friezes, mosaics and pottery painting, and partly through the examples of painting and decoration of the High Renaissance of Raphael's generation, frescos in Nero's Domus Aurea, Pompeii and Herculaneum, and through renewed admiration of Nicholas Poussin. Much "neoclassical" painting is more than classicizing in subject field matter than in anything else. A fierce, but often very badly informed, dispute raged for decades over the relative merits of Greek and Roman art, with Winckelmann and his fellow Hellenists generally the winning side.^[fifteen]

Painting and printmaking

It is hard to recapture the radical and exciting nature of early neo-classical painting for contemporary audiences; it now strikes even those writers favourably inclined to information technology as "insipid" and "well-nigh entirely uninteresting to usa"—some of Kenneth Clark's comments on Anton Raphael Mengs' ambitious Parnassus at the Villa Albani,^[sixteen] by the artist who his friend Winckelmann described as "the greatest artist of his own, and mayhap of later times".^[17] The drawings, after turned into prints, of John Flaxman used very simple line drawing (idea to be the purest classical medium^[18]) and figures by and large in profile to depict The Odyssey and other subjects, and in one case "fired the creative youth of Europe" but are now "neglected",^[19] while the history paintings of Angelica Kauffman, mainly a portraitist, are described as having "an unctuous softness and tediousness" by Fritz Novotny.^[20] Rococo frivolity and Bizarre movement had been stripped away merely many artists struggled to put anything in their place, and in the absence of ancient examples for history painting, other than the Greek vases used past Flaxman, Raphael tended to be used as a substitute model, equally Winckelmann recommended.

The work of other artists, who could non easily be described as insipid, combined aspects of Romanticism with a generally Neoclassical fashion, and course function of the history of both movements. The High german-Danish painter Asmus Jacob Carstens finished very few of the large mythological works that he planned, leaving generally drawings and colour studies which often succeed in approaching Winckelmann'due south prescription of "noble simplicity and at-home grandeur".^[21] Unlike Carstens' unrealized schemes, the etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi were numerous and profitable, and taken back past those making the Grand Tour to all parts of Europe. His principal subject affair was the buildings and ruins of Rome, and he was more stimulated by the ancient than the modernistic. The somewhat disquieting atmosphere of many of his Vedute (views) becomes dominant in his serial of 16 prints of Carceri d'Invenzione ("Imaginary Prisons") whose "oppressive cyclopean architecture" conveys "dreams of fear and frustration".^[22] The Swiss-built-in Johann Heinrich Füssli spent most of his career in England, and while his fundamental way was based on neoclassical principles, his subjects and treatment more oft reflected the "Gothic" strain of Romanticism, and sought to evoke drama and excitement.

Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785. Despite its evocation of republican virtues, this was a commission by the royal government, which David insisted on painting in Rome. David managed to combine an idealist style with drama and force. The key perspective is perpendicular to the picture airplane, made more emphatic past the dim arcade backside, against which the heroic figures are disposed as in a frieze, with a hint of the bogus lighting and staging of opera, and the classical colouring of Nicholas Poussin. David chop-chop became the leader of French fine art, and afterward the French Revolution became a politician with control of much authorities patronage in fine art. He managed to retain his influence in the Napoleonic period, turning to bluntly propagandistic works, only had to exit France for exile in Brussels at the Bourbon Restoration.^[23]

David's many students included Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who saw himself as a classicist throughout his long career, despite a mature mode that has an equivocal relationship with the primary electric current of Neoclassicism, and many after diversions into Orientalism and the Troubadour fashion that are hard to distinguish from those of his unabashedly Romantic contemporaries, except by the primacy his works always give to drawing. He exhibited at the Salon for over sixty years, from 1802 into the beginnings of Impressionism, but his style, one time formed, changed trivial.^[24]

Asmus Jacob Carstens, Dark and Her Children, Slumber and Death, 1794, Black chalk on paper, 745 ten 985 cm
Ingres' version of Neoclassicism, Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808

Sculpture

If Neoclassical painting suffered from a lack of ancient models, Neoclassical sculpture tended to endure from an backlog of them, although examples of actual Greek sculpture of the "classical period" beginning in about 500 BC were then very few; the most highly regarded works were mostly Roman copies.^[25] The leading Neoclassical sculptors enjoyed huge reputations in their own day, but are now less regarded, with the exception of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whose work was mainly portraits, very often as busts, which practice not sacrifice a strong impression of the sitter's personality to idealism. His style became more classical as his long career connected, and represents a rather polish progression from Rococo charm to classical dignity. Unlike some Neoclassical sculptors he did not insist on his sitters wearing Roman dress, or beingness unclothed. He portrayed nearly of the great figures of the Enlightenment, and travelled to America to produce a statue of George Washington, as well as busts of Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other luminaries of the new republic.^[26] ^[27]

Antonio Canova and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen were both based in Rome, and likewise as portraits produced many ambitious life-size figures and groups; both represented the strongly idealizing tendency in neoclassical sculpture. Canova has a lightness and grace, where Thorvaldsen is more severe; the difference is exemplified in their respective groups of the 3 Graces.^[28] All these, and Flaxman, were nevertheless active in the 1820s, and Romanticism was slow to impact sculpture, where versions of Neoclassicism remained the dominant manner for most of the 19th century.

An early neoclassicist in sculpture was the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel.^[29] John Flaxman was also, or mainly, a sculptor, mostly producing severely classical reliefs that are comparable in style to his prints; he also designed and modelled neoclassical ceramics for Josiah Wedgwood for several years. Johann Gottfried Schadow and his son Rudolph, one of the few neoclassical sculptors to dice young, were the leading German artists,^[30] with Franz Anton von Zauner in Republic of austria. The late Bizarre Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt turned to Neoclassicism in mid-career, shortly before he appears to have suffered some kind of mental crisis, after which he retired to the country and devoted himself to the highly distinctive "character heads" of bald figures pulling extreme facial expressions.^[31] Like Piranesi's Carceri, these enjoyed a bully revival of interest during the age of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century. The Dutch neoclassical sculptor Mathieu Kessels studied with Thorvaldsen and worked most exclusively in Rome.

Since prior to the 1830s the U.s.a. did not have a sculpture tradition of its own, save in the areas of tombstones, weathervanes and send figureheads,^[32] the European neoclassical manner was adopted at that place, and it was to hold sway for decades and is exemplified in the sculptures of Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers, Randolph Rogers and William Henry Rinehart.

Architecture and the decorative arts

Neoclassicism first gained influence in England and France, through a generation of French art students trained in Rome and influenced by the writings of Winckelmann, and information technology was chop-chop adopted by progressive circles in other countries such as Sweden and Russia. At first, classicizing decor was grafted onto familiar European forms, as in the interiors for Catherine Two's lover Count Orlov, designed by an Italian builder with a team of Italian stuccadori: simply the isolated oval medallions like cameos and the bas-relief overdoors hint of neoclassicism; the effects are fully Italian Rococo.

A second neoclassic wave, more severe, more than studied (through the medium of engravings) and more consciously archaeological, is associated with the height of the Napoleonic Empire. In France, the first phase of neoclassicism was expressed in the "Louis XVI style", and the second in the styles called "Directoire" or Empire. The Rococo style remained pop in Italy until the Napoleonic regimes brought the new archaeological classicism, which was embraced as a political statement past young, progressive, urban Italians with republican leanings.^{[ according to whom? ]}

In the decorative arts, neoclassicism is exemplified in Empire furniture made in Paris, London, New York, Berlin; in Biedermeier furniture made in Austria; in Karl Friedrich Schinkel'south museums in Berlin, Sir John Soane'due south Bank of England in London and the newly built "capitol" in Washington, D.C.; and in Wedgwood's bas reliefs and "black basaltes" vases. The style was international; Scots architect Charles Cameron created deluxe Italianate interiors for the German language-born Catherine 2 the Great, in Russian Petrograd.

Indoors, neoclassicism made a discovery of the genuine classic interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum. These had begun in the late 1740s, merely only achieved a wide audience in the 1760s,^[33] with the first luxurious volumes of tightly controlled distribution of Le Antichità di Ercolano (The Antiquities of Herculaneum). The antiquities of Herculaneum showed that even the near classicizing interiors of the Bizarre, or the nigh "Roman" rooms of William Kent were based on basilica and temple exterior compages turned outside in, hence their often flatulent appeatrance to modernistic eyes: pedimented window frames turned into gold mirrors, fireplaces topped with temple fronts. The new interiors sought to recreate an authentically Roman and genuinely interior vocabulary. Techniques employed in the fashion included flatter, lighter motifs, sculpted in low frieze-like relief or painted in monotones en camaïeu ("similar cameos"), isolated medallions or vases or busts or bucrania or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques against backgrounds, peradventure, of "Pompeiian red" or pale tints, or stone colors. The way in France was initially a Parisian style, the Goût grec ("Greek style"), non a court manner; when Louis XVI acceded to the throne in 1774, Marie Antoinette, his fashion-loving Queen, brought the "Louis XVI" fashion to court. All the same, there was no real attempt to apply the bones forms of Roman furniture until around the plow of the century, and furniture-makers were more likely to borrow from aboriginal compages, simply as silversmiths were more likely to take from ancient pottery and stone-carving than metalwork: "Designers and craftsmen ... seem to accept taken an almost perverse pleasure in transferring motifs from one medium to some other".^[34]

From nigh 1800 a fresh influx of Greek architectural examples, seen through the medium of etchings and engravings, gave a new impetus to neoclassicism, the Greek Revival. At the same time the Empire style was a more grandiose wave of neoclassicism in compages and the decorative arts. Mainly based on Regal Roman styles, information technology originated in, and took its name from, the rule of Napoleon in the First French Empire, where it was intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and the French state. The way corresponds to the more conservative Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Federal manner in the United States,^[33] the Regency manner in Britain, and the Napoleonstil in Sweden. According to the art historian Hugh Honour "so far from being, as is sometimes supposed, the culmination of the Neo-classical motion, the Empire marks its rapid refuse and transformation back in one case more into a mere antique revival, drained of all the loftier-minded ideas and forcefulness of conviction that had inspired its masterpieces".^[35] An earlier phase of the style was chosen the Adam fashion in Slap-up U.k. and "Louis Seize", or Louis Sixteen, in France.

Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the 19th century and beyond — a constant antonym to Romanticism or Gothic revivals —, although from the late 19th century on it had oftentimes been considered anti-modernistic, or even reactionary, in influential critical circles.^{[ who? ]} The centres of several European cities, notably St. Petersburg and Munich, came to expect much like museums of Neoclassical compages.

Gothic revival compages (often linked with the Romantic cultural movement), a style originating in the 18th century which grew in popularity throughout the 19th century, assorted Neoclassicism. Whilst Neoclassicism was characterized by Greek and Roman-influenced styles, geometric lines and gild, Gothic revival architecture placed an accent on medieval-looking buildings, often fabricated to have a rustic, "romantic" appearance.

Gold egg-cup, Paris 1762-63, in the goût Grec (Greek style)

Neoclassical gardens

In England, Augustan literature had a direct parallel with the Augustan style of mural blueprint. The links are conspicuously seen in the work of Alexander Pope. The all-time surviving examples of Neoclassical English language gardens are Chiswick House, Stowe Firm and Stourhead.^[36]

Neoclassicism and fashion

In mode, Neoclassicism influenced the much greater simplicity of women's dresses, and the long-lasting manner for white, from well before the French Revolution, but it was non until after it that thorough-going attempts to imitate ancient styles became fashionable in France, at least for women. Classical costumes had long been worn by fashionable ladies posing as some figure from Greek or Roman myth in a portrait (in particular there was a rash of such portraits of the young model Emma, Lady Hamilton from the 1780s), but such costumes were simply worn for the portrait sitting and masquerade balls until the Revolutionary period, and maybe, similar other exotic styles, every bit undress at home. Only the styles worn in portraits by Juliette Récamier, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Thérésa Tallien and other Parisian trend-setters were for going-out in public likewise. Seeing Mme Tallien at the opera, Talleyrand quipped that: "Il n'est pas possible de s'exposer plus somptueusement!" ("One could not be more sumptuously undressed"). In 1788, just before the Revolution, the courtroom portraitist Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun had held a Greek supper where the ladies wore patently white Grecian tunics.^[37] Shorter classical hairstyles, where possible with curls, were less controversial and very widely adopted, and pilus was at present uncovered even outdoors; except for evening clothes, bonnets or other coverings had typically been worn even indoors before. Thin Greek-style ribbons or fillets were used to necktie or decorate the hair instead.

Very light and loose dresses, usually white and often with shockingly bare artillery, rose sheer from the ankle to just below the bodice, where there was a strongly emphasized sparse hem or tie round the body, often in a different color. The shape is now often known as the Empire silhouette although it predates the First French Empire of Napoleon, but his commencement Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais was influential in spreading it effectually Europe. A long rectangular shawl or wrap, very frequently plain carmine only with a busy border in portraits, helped in colder weather, and was obviously laid effectually the midriff when seated — for which sprawling semi-recumbent postures were favoured.^[38] By the first of the 19th century, such styles had spread widely across Europe.

Neoclassical fashion for men was far more than problematic, and never really took off other than for hair, where it played an important role in the shorter styles that finally despatched the use of wigs, then white pilus-powder, for younger men. The trouser had been the symbol of the barbarian to the Greeks and Romans, but outside the painter's or, especially, the sculptor's studio, few men were prepared to abandon it. Indeed, the period saw the triumph of the pure trouser, or pantaloon, over the cullottes or human knee-breeches of the Ancien Régime. Even when David designed a new French "national costume" at the request of the government during the meridian of the Revolutionary enthusiasm for changing everything in 1792, information technology included fairly tight leggings under a coat that stopped higher up the knee. A high proportion of well-to-do young men spent much of the key period in military service considering of the French Revolutionary Wars, and war machine uniform, which began to emphasize jackets that were brusk at the front, giving a total view of tight-fitting trousers, was frequently worn when not on duty, and influenced cilivian male styles.

The trouser-problem had been recognised by artists as a barrier to creating contemporary history paintings; like other elements of contemporary dress they were seen as irredeemably ugly and unheroic by many artists and critics. Diverse strategems were used to avoid depicting them in modern scenes. In James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra (1758) by Gavin Hamilton, the ii gentleman antiquaries are shown in toga-similar Arab robes. In Watson and the Shark (1778) past John Singleton Copley, the main figure could plausibly be shown nude, and the limerick is such that of the eight other men shown, only one shows a single breeched leg prominently. Nonetheless the Americans Copley and Benjamin Due west led the artists who successfully showed that trousers could be used in heroic scenes, with works similar West's The Death of General Wolfe (1770) and Copley's The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 (1783), although the trouser was still being carefully avoided in The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819.

Classically inspired male hair styles included the Bedford Crop, arguably the precursor of most plainly modern male styles, which was invented by the radical politician Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford equally a protest confronting a tax on hair pulverization; he encouraged his frends to adopt it by betting them they would not. Another influential style (or group of styles) was named by the French subsequently the Roman Emperor Titus, from his busts, with pilus short and layered but somewhat piled up on the crown, often with restrained quiffs or locks hanging down; variants are familiar from the hair of both Napoleon and George Four of England. The style was supposed to have been introduced by the actor François-Joseph Talma, who upstaged his wigged co-actors when appearing in productions of works such as Voltaire'south Brutus. In 1799 a Parisian way mag reported that even bald men were adopting Titus wigs,^[39] and the style was also worn past women, the Journal de Paris reporting in 1802 that "more than half of elegant women were wearing their hair or wig à la Titus.^[twoscore]

Later "Neoclassicisms"

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In American compages, neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca. 1890–1917; its concluding manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its very concluding, large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the architectural community every bit being backward thinking and old fashioned in its design), and the American Museum of Natural History'south Roosevelt Memorial. These were considered stylistic anachronisms when they were finished. In the British Raj, Sir Edwin Lutyens' monumental city planning for New Delhi marks the glorious sunset of neoclassicism. Globe War Two was to shatter near longing for (and imitation of) mythical, heroic times.

Conservative modernist architects such as Auguste Perret in France kept the rhythms and spacing of columnar architecture even in factory buildings. Where a colonnade would take been decried equally "reactionary", a building's pilaster-like fluted panels under a repeating frieze looked "progressive". Pablo Picasso experimented with classicizing motifs in the years immediately following World State of war I, and the Fine art Deco style that came to the fore following the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, often drew on neoclassical motifs without expressing them overtly: severe, blocky commodes by É.-J. Ruhlmann or Süe & Mare; well-baked, extremely low-relief friezes of damsels and gazelles in every medium; fashionable dresses that were draped or cut on the bias to recreate Grecian lines; the art dance of Isadora Duncan; the Streamline Moderne styling of U.S. post offices and canton court buildings built as late equally 1950; and the Roosevelt dime.

There was an entire 20th-century movement in the Arts which was besides called Neo-classicism. It encompassed at to the lowest degree music, philosophy and literature. It was between the finish of World State of war I and the end of Globe War II. (For information on the musical aspects, come across 20th-century classical music and Neoclassicism in music. For information on the philosophical aspects, meet Corking Books.)

This literary neo-classical movement rejected the extreme romanticism of (for example) Dada, in favour of restraint, religion (specifically Christianity) and a reactionary political program. Although the foundations for this movement in English literature were laid past T. East. Hulme, the about famous neoclassicists were T. Due south. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis. In Russia, the motion crystallized equally early on equally 1910 nether the name of Acmeism, with Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelshtam as the leading representatives.

In music

Neoclassicism in music is a 20th-century movement; in this case information technology is the classical music of the late 18th and early 19th century that is beingness revived, not the music of the ancient earth. It was ultimately a response to German language Modernism in the first part of the 20th century. Information technology was an anti-progress, anti-industrial and anti-innovative musical mode. This was inspired by composers claiming that mankind is inherently "diatonic" and "tonal"; the reverse of ultra-modernist musical influences and compositions at the time. Composers started to wait back to historical musical influences. Although the exercise of borrowing musical styles from the past has not been uncommon throughout musical history, fine art musics have gone through periods where musicians used modern techniques coupled with older forms or harmonies to create new kinds of works. Notable compositional characteristics are, the return to tonality, return to conventional forms (dance suites, concerti grossi, axiomatic sonata forms, etc.), render to the idea of accented music, the utilise of light musical textures, and the composers conciseness of musical expression. In classical music, this was nigh notably perceived between the 1920s and the 1950s. Igor Stravinsky is the best-known composer using this style; he effectively began the musical revolution with his Bach-like Octet for Wind Instruments (1923). A particular individual work that represents this mode well is Prokofiev'due south Classical Symphony No. 1 in D, which is reminiscent of the symphonic style of Haydn or Mozart. Neoclassical ballet comes from the same period, and aimed to de-clutter the Russian Imperial mode in terms of steps and narrative, while retaining its technical innovations.

Architecture in Russia and the Soviet Wedlock

In 1905–1914 Russian compages passed through a brief just influential period of neoclassical revival; the tendency began with recreation of Empire style of alexandrine period and quickly expanded into a variety of neo-Renaissance, palladian and modernized, yet recognizably classical schools. They were led by architects born in the 1870s, who reached creative height before World War I, like Ivan Fomin, Vladimir Shchuko and Ivan Zholtovsky. When economy recovered in the 1920s, these architects and their followers continued working in primarily modernist environment; some (Zholtovsky) strictly followed the classical canon, others (Fomin, Schuko, Ilya Golosov) developed their ain modernized styles.^[41]

With the crackdown on architects' independence and official denial of modernism (1932), demonstrated past the international contest for the Palace of Soviets, neoclassicism was instantly promoted as one of the choices in Stalinist architecture, although not the only 1. It coexisted with moderately modernist architecture of Boris Iofan, bordering with contemporary Art Deco (Schuko); once again, the purest examples of the style were produced by Zholtovsky school that remained an isolated phenomena. The political intervention was a disaster for constructivist leaders however was sincerely welcomed by architects of the classical schools.

Neoclassicism was an piece of cake choice for the USSR since it did non rely on modern construction technologies (steel frame or reinforced concrete) and could exist reproduced in traditional masonry. Thus the designs of Zholtovsky, Fomin and other former masters were easily replicated in remote towns under strict material rationing. Improvement of construction technology later World War 2 permitted Stalinist architects to venture into skyscraper construction, although stylistically these skyscrapers (including "exported" compages of Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw and the Shanghai International Convention Center) share niggling with the classical models. Neoclassicism and neo-Renaissance persisted in less demanding residential and function projects until 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev put an end to expensive Stalinist architecture.

Architecture in the 21st century

After a lull during the menses of modern architectural dominance (roughly postal service-World War II until the mid-1980s), neoclassicism has seen somewhat of a resurgence.

Every bit of the first decade of the 21st century, contemporary neoclassical architecture is usually classed under the umbrella term of New Classical Architecture. Sometimes it is likewise referred to as Neo-Historicism or Traditionalism.^[42] Also, a number of pieces of postmodern compages draw inspiration from and include explicit references to neoclassicism, Antigone Commune and the National Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona among them. Postmodern architecture occasionally includes historical elements, like columns, capitals or the tympanum.

For sincere traditional-style architecture that sticks to regional compages, materials and craftsmanship, the term Traditional Architecture (or vernacular) is mostly used. The Driehaus Architecture Prize is awarded to major contributors in the field of 21st century traditional or classical architecture, and comes with a prize money twice equally high every bit that of the modernist Pritzker Prize.^[43]

In the U.s.a. diverse contemporary public buildings are built in neoclassical style, with the 2006 Schermerhorn Symphony Middle in Nashville being an instance.

In Britain a number of architects are agile in the neoclassical style. Examples of their work include two academy libraries: Quinlan Terry's Maitland Robinson Library at Downing College and Robert Adam Architects' Sackler Library.

Run across also

New Classical Compages
Adam style
American Empire style
Empire style
Federal architecture
Nazi architecture
Neo-Grec, the belatedly Greek-Revival mode
Neoclassical influenced fashions
Stalinist architecture

Notes

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↑ The road from Rome to Paris. The birth of a modern Neoclassicism
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↑ Accolade, 17-25; Novotny, 21
↑ A recurring theme in Clark: 19-23, 58-62, 69, 97-98 (on Ingres); Honour, 187-190; Novotny, 86-87
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↑ Both quotes from the start pages of "Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture"
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↑ Honour, 21
↑ Honor, eleven, 23-25
↑ Honour, 44-46; Novotny, 21
↑ Award, 43-62
↑ Clark, twenty (quoted); Honour, 14; epitome of the painting (in fairness, other works by Mengs are more successful)
↑ Honor, 31-32 (31 quoted)
↑ Honour, 113-114
↑ Award, 14
↑ Novotny, 62
↑ Novotny, 51-54
↑ Clark, 45-58 (47-48 quoted); Honour, 50-57
↑ Honour, 34-37; Clark, 21-26; Novotny, 19-22
↑ Novotny, 39-47;Clark, 97-145; Accolade, 187-190
↑ Novotny, 378
↑ Novotny, 378–379
↑ Chinard, Gilbert, ed., Houdon in America Arno PressNy, 1979, a reprint of a book published by Johns Hopkins University, 1930
↑ Novotny, 379-384
↑ Novotny, 384-385
↑ Novotny, 388-389
↑ Novotny, 390-392
↑ Gerdts, William H., American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection, Viking Press, New York, 1973 p. 11
↑ ^33.0 ^33.ane Gontar
↑ Honour, 110-eleven, 110 quoted
↑ Honour, 171-184, 171 quoted
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↑ Hunt, 244-245
↑ Hunt, 243
↑ Rifelj, 35
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↑ Neo-classicist Architecture. Traditionalism. Historicism.
↑ Driehaus Prize for New Classical Architecture at Notre Matriarch SoA – Together, the $200,000 Driehaus Prize and the $50,000 Reed Accolade represent the most significant recognition for classicism in the contemporary built environs.; retained March 7, 2014

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