Associations to the word «Neoclassicism»

Wiktionary

NEOCLASSICISM, noun. Any of several movements in the arts, architecture, literature and music that revived forms from earlier centuries.

Dictionary definition

NEOCLASSICISM, noun. Revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope