Prokofieff is a classicist, not a romantic, and his appearance must be considered a belated relapse of classicism in Russia.
Prokofieff's classicism was compared with his romanticism.
It was a protest against the vague and feeble generalizations and the vapid classicism which were growing too common in art.
Just as he expressed the thin and spurious classicism of one period in his Pompeian romance, so he made copy out of the pseudoscience and bastard psychology of a later day in his "Strange Story.
Nevertheless his influence lived and grew more powerful till, aided largely by French influence, it resulted in the so-called classicism of the eighteenth century.
Did the classicismof Johnson, for instance, have any relation to classic literature in its true sense?
It was the first in our language to be written on scientific principles, and with a solid basis of fact; and the style is the very climax of that classicism which had ruled England for an entire century.
They could make sure, afterwards, of a personal pleasure in a certain prescient classicism of the house.
What Conservatism and Liberalism are to Politics Classicism and Romanticism are to Art.
Thus Classicism in Art constantly needs the freshening, broadening influence of Romanticism.
In spite of the vein of mysticism which occasionally shows in him, it is true in some degree of Diderot himself, if by classicism we mean the tendency to make man the centre of the universe.
Classicism treats man as worthy and great, living his life among cold and neutral forces.
He is a genuine realist as opposed to the decorative classicism of Gauguin.
At the beginning of the century classicism was in its decline; Russia was leaving her youth behind her, and after 1812 she became totally changed.
It was, as has likewise been said, "a classicism in red heels and a periwig.
In both countries, too, the revolution, as it concerned form, was a break with French classicism and with that part of the native literature which had followed academic traditions.
In Germany, French classicism had got an even firmer hold than in England.
The contest between classicismand romanticism began as soon as musical science had formulated sufficient law to enable composers to work according to some system.
These impulses are calledClassicism and Romanticism.
The contest between classicism and romanticism, now at an end, since classicism simply means devotion to pure beauty of form and matter, is exhibited throughout the three great periods of musical history.
In Italy the Romantic School was not so sharply divided into a first and second period as in Germany, where it was superseded for a time by the classicism following the study of Winckelmann.
In the classicism of Alfieri there is no positive side.
The Asiatic vulgarism of Hortensius thus dislodged classicism from the Roman platform and partly also from literature.
The pseudo-classicism of Gottsched maintained its authority in Austria not merely after the time of Lessing, but also after the time of Schiller.
It is in the strictest sense complementary and co-ordinate to that of Goethe and Schiller, a classicism modified by romantic tendencies toward individuation and localization.
Friar Bacon remains a dramatic picture of English Elizabethan life with which The Merry Wives alone can vie; and not even the ultra-classicism in the similes of its diction can destroy the naturalness which constitutes its perennial charm.
Not until the beginning of the sixteenth century does the reborn classicism victoriously cross the Pyrenees, and then only in minor domestic buildings.
The new classicism was triumphantly replacing the dying art, and the builders of Salamanca were sorely perplexed whether or not to make a radical departure to the newer style.
III Because the classicism against which romanticism rebelled was inadequate it does not follow that every type of classicism suffers from a similar inadequacy.
They took to be of the essence of classicism what was merely its local coloring, especially the coloring it received from the French of the seventeenth century.
Note the assumption here that the clear-cut distinctions of classicism are merely abstract and intellectual, and that the only true unity is the unity of feeling.
The general outcome of the attempts at reconciliation made by the literary casuists of Italy and France was that Christianity should have a monopoly of truth and classicism a monopoly of fiction.
Romanticism has claimed for itself a monopoly of imagination and infinitude, but on closer examination, as I hope to show later, this claim, at least so far as genuine classicism is concerned, will be found to be quite unjustified.
This conception of clearness was also a menace to the classicism of the seventeenth century which rested in the final analysis not on logic but on tradition.
The first thing that strikes one about the classicism of this period is that it does not rest on immediate perception like that of the Greeks but on outer authority.
For my subject is not romanticism in general, but only a particular type of romanticism, and this type of romanticism needs to be seen as a recoil, not from classicism in general, but from a particular type of classicism.
For the present it is enough to say that true classicism does not rest on the observance of rules or the imitation of models but on an immediate insight into the universal.
To be sure, any particular manifestation of classicism will of necessity contain elements that are less universal, elements that reflect merely a certain person or persons, or a certain age and country.
The doctrines of the universal and the imitation of the universal go deeper indeed than decorum, so much deeper that they are shared by classicism with religion.
This supposed opposition between reason and imagination was accepted by the romantic rebels against neo-classicism and has been an endless source of confusion to the present day.
No city could offer greater contrast to the ancient and dignified classicismof Nîmes.
Does the poem belong to the Age of Classicism or Romanticism or both; in what respects?
David’s Paris and Helen introduces us, on the other hand, to the beginnings of the cold classicism which prevailed under the Empire.
Thus the name Erasmus itself was a classicism of his father's name Gerhard, the German name Muth became Mutianus, Trittheim became Trithemius, Schwarzerd became Melanchthon, and so on.
As instances of the classicism of the period, we may note the uniform change of the patronymic into the classical equivalent, or some classicism supposed to be the equivalent.
And this revolution was more remarkable for nothing than for its repudiation of nearly all the notes of classicismthat are enumerated by M.
The new movement was alien to anything the marbled halls of Greece are supposed to have seen; yet it held a haunting reminder, as thoughclassicism had suddenly given birth to youth.
Classicism bears the relation to art that religion does to the world's progress.
The influences that made for classicism were many.
