In Tbilisi, a Battle Over Buildings Fires Investment Debate Jun 14, 2008
But the timeworn buildings, many of them gems of neoclassicism or Art Nouveau, are starting to crumble, leaving entire households without roofs over their heads. Flaking plaster and yawning wall cracks have become part of the district s look. (EurasiaNet.org)
19th century European art on show in Beijing Mar 31, 2008
The 19th century was a time when diverse art forms including neoclassicism, academic and Pre-Raphaelite art blossomed. (Photo: CCTV.com). (Xinhuanet, China)
How to bring the past to life in 2008 Jan 11, 2008
The Hollywood Regency craze has evolved, creating a hunger for antiques and cleverly updated pieces that pay homage to French neoclassicism and all-American tradition ... Why it's hot: Some credit goes to Acanthus Press, which last fall published James Archer Abbot's "Jansen Furniture," the sequel to his 2006 tome, "Jansen," stoking the fever for French neoclassicism. (FOX59, IN)
Tracey Albainy, was curator at Museum of Fine Arts; 45 Dec 23, 2007
"By the time Napoleon became emperor in 1804, he had already begun to champion a bold, classical aesthetic that expressed grandeur and monumentality, a stark contrast to the very decorative neoclassicism of pre-Revolutionary France," she was quoted as saying in the museum's article about the exhibit. "The Empire style would become one of the grandest and most opulent in the history of decorative arts. Bold, saturated colors, costly and elaborately worked materials, and ornate decoration... (Boston Globe)
Show spotlights 18th-century French artists' drawings in Eternal City Nov 30, 2007
Transformations of Roman examples, in art and architecture, gave rise to neoclassicism ... These two would collaborate on the late phase of neoclassicism under Napoleon, called the Empire style ... With neoclassicism on the rise, there was to be enough distinguished sculpture in France without a stolen Apollo. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Ears wide open Oct 28, 2007
From the beginning, Rose has sought out an extremely wide range of composers, from the edgy lapel-grabbing music of Lee Hyla to the sophisticated quicksilver lyricism of Bernard Rands to the skillfully crafted neoclassicism of Arthur Berger. Next season will feature about a dozen more premieres, including works by Bielawa, David Rakowski, and Tigran Mansurian as well as a piece for throat singer and orchestra by Ken Ueno. (Boston Globe)
The Unbound West Sep 12, 2007
Compare this static quality to the progression in Western painting from Neoclassicism through Impressionism, Cubism, Modigliani, Hopper, what have you. All good, but stylistically from different planets. (The American Conservative)
CBS 2 At The Met: Petrie Sculture Court Aug 27, 2007
" Wardropper explained, "He's (Canova) very pure in his lines, he studied ancient art very carefully just sort of what neoclassicism is about, but it was a time period that, as you say, paid really close attention to details. This is a time when they were doing archeology in Pompeii and Herculaneum, so they found the actual objects from antiquity and they really studied and drew them closely so its true. (CBS New York, NY)
Acropolis View Endangers 85-Year-old's Home, Splits Ministers and Vangelis Aug 16, 2007
No neoclassicism, no Art Nouveau. The white-haired great-grandmother looks at her pink and grey marble Art Deco apartment building and says: ``We're going straight from antiquity to now. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Paradise regained Aug 13, 2007
Follies like this are usually seen in England on aristocratic estates, and this has tainted the image of neoclassicism as a gentleman's art. Yet Nasmyth was making public art in 1789, the year of the French revolution. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cool 2 Wear: Celebration of Poiret at the Met May 14, 2007
He alternately favored the flat planes of the caftan and the kimono with the columnar lines of ancient Greece and the neoclassicism of the early 19th century. "Poiret's modernism wasn't ideological," explains the show's co-curator Andrew Bolton. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
The Art Capades Feb 21, 2007
As the frank title suggests, the show consists of 135 works by French artists charting the triumph of New Painting over the stuffy Salon style through the most influential -isms of the 19th and early 20th century, from Neoclassicism to Romanticism to Impressionism to Fauvism. Frequent readers might recall that Art Capades promised not to let a MFAH press luncheon in Austin go to her head when standing before the Gauguins, Degas, Manets, Monets, van Goghs, etc. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Robert Rosenblum — art historian and author Dec 29, 2006
In its preface he referred to terms such as Neoclassicism and Romanticism as semantic straitjackets and preferred to delve into the bewildering new variety of emotions, styles, and iconography that emerged in late 18th-century art. His definition of Modernism was expansive, and continually revised, as he shrugged off orthodoxy and embraced both abandoned orphans of art history and newcomers from multiple cultures and genres. (TimesOnline)
A Modern gamble Nov 10, 2006
Farris took a risk on whether he could lease such a building in a city where the column-and-pediment look of Neoclassicism remains popular. But design styles are changing. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Louvre's masterpieces never fail to dazzle Nov 10, 2006
The epitome of neoclassicism, Francois Gerard's "Psyche et l'Amour (Cupid and Psyche)" dazzles viewers with a mysterious landscape and the delicate and translucent beauty of its subjects. In "Age of Gold," nature is portrayed as utopia. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Revival of glass buildings (Deborah K. Dietsch) Sep 9, 2006
Of course, this being Washington, the feds continue to embrace neoclassicism, albeitin a more streamlinedversion. Due to be dedicated in October is the seven-story addition to the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse on Pennsylvania Avenue. (Washington Times)
Italian Renaissance comes alive... Aug 20, 2006
The crucial renaissance period, and the following cultural eras of baroque, romanticism and neoclassicism have come alive in delicate print works for the "Utopia - Old Master Prints" exhibition being held at Daejeon Asia Museum ... Through the prints of "The Death of Leonardo da Vinci" by French neoclassicism leader Ingres, and British romanticism master Turner's landscape paintings, viewers will also be given the chance to see how the renaissance influenced the later art trends. (Korea Herald, Korea)
How to read a naked man May 20, 2006
He was proud to secure the services of the Venetian sculptor who was renowned across Europe as an exponent of neoclassicism, the style that aspired to recreate not just the appearance of ancient Greek art but its ethos - "the Greek ideal". Napoleon might have done well to read what the British artist Joshua Reynolds, theorist as well as painter, had to say on the subject in his Discourses: Greek statesmen were idealistic enough to have themselves portrayed naked, he wrote, but moderns lacked... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Girodet's rebellion through eroticism Feb 14, 2006
Neoclassicism, a revival of themes from ancient Greece and especially Rome, prescribed what you could paint -- exalted, "noble" scenes from history, mythology and literature -- and how to paint it; the results were often stagy and emotionally flat, as beautiful and unaffecting as a series of tableaux in a village fete. But from his earliest masterpiece -- 1791's "The Sleep of Endymion," painted as a student in Rome -- Girodet announced himself as an artist who would never be content to do just... (Chicago Sun-Times)
