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Neoclassicism: Antiquity reborn in reason, harmony, and heroic ideals

Neoclassicism: Antiquity reborn in reason, harmony, and heroic ideals

Charles, Victoria

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 1683259289
ISBN13: 9781683259282
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Published: Nov 27 2019
Pages: 72
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.31 Width: 8.07 Depth: 10.24
Language: English

In the arts, Neoclassicism is a historical tradition or aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity. The movement started around the 18th-century, age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th-century The general credo associated with the aesthetic attitude of Classicism was that art had to be rational and therefore morally better. Neoclassicists also believed that art should be cerebral, not sensual and therefore characterised by clarity of form, sober colours and shallow space. It was a reaction against both the surviving Baroque and Rococo styles, and a desire to return to the perceived purity of the arts of Rome.

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