It was the period of the war between the Classicists and the Romanticists.
Incessantly he believed himself to hear what he has called "le cri de la terre," and neither Romanticists nor Classicists caught anything of this cry of the earth.
For the sake of painting cuirasses and helmets they dragged the most obscure national heroes to the light of day, just as the Classicists had done with Greeks and Romans.
The landscape ideal of the Classicists had been architecture, that of the Romanticists poetry; from this time forward it became pure painting.
Painters became Classicists because they had not yet the courage to venture on the ground where the century itself was going through a process of fermentation.
Amongst the painters there were Classicists and Romanticists; but they were neither numerous nor of importance.
Courbet, with all his brutal weight, pushed between the large symmetrical figures of the thoroughbred Classicists and the pretty confectionery of the Neo-Grecian painters of beauty.
In the manner in which he conceived the trooper, Vernet stands between the Classicists and the moderns.
The compass of his moods is as much greater than that of the French Classicists as Italy is greater than Fontainebleau.
The classicist, the Brahmin, within the sentimental young poet was to be awakened by the greatest of the classicists and the Brahmins, Dr.
The result in the case of both, in the case of all classicists in fact, has been that the reader is touched only in the intellect.
The Classicists believed in a certain smug cloistered virtue, a policy of non-resistance, and the contemplation of past glories.
The Romanticists revolted against the art of the Classicists as cold, formal, and colourless.
He first appeared as a genre painter; and "amid the group of Classicists of his time, he had (says Dr.
The Classicists and the Moderns The literary tendency of this age was varied and could not be otherwise, for the age itself was divided between the old and the new modes.
In the ranks of the Classicists at first, he soon fell into line with the Romanticists, and by 1827 he was the acknowledged leader of "La Jeune France.
Many others besides Dumas loved Nodier--Royalists and Republicans, Classicists and Romanticists; and they crowded his salon here of an evening.
And the sixteenth century swarm of Petrarchists and Classicists have, unlike true prophets, found honour in their own country.
The laws of the pseudo-classicists were held to be measurably good, but Shakespeare without those laws had been undeniably great.
The pseudo-classicists erred mainly in taking their rules as masters instead of as guides.
But the classicists were occupied in the main with neither poet, but in discussing various minor questions of dramatic propriety: Should any violence or bloodshed be permitted?
Faults in plenty there surely are, whether judgment be taken of classicists or realists, or of the best standards of the Elizabethans.
After Mérimée had thus discovered how easily "local colouring" may be obtained, he forgave Racine and the Classicists their lack of it.
Take, for example, the notorious, offensively indecent ballad of the moon, which aggravated the Classicists by its metre and the Romanticists by its disrespectful attitude to its subject, their chief favourite.
The Classicists had long since made their way into art, and the old Flemish tradition was dying out.
It is obvious that between the ascetics of the monastery and the Classicists direct friction must ensue.
The Classicists had imitated with a certain cold erudition; the Nazarenes out of the depths of their emotion.
And indeed it was not till now that the Classicists perceived how great an opponent had arisen against them.
And he succeeded in accomplishing that which the German Classicists of the beginning of the century strove after in vain.
The principle of the Classicists was the Greek type of beauty, and the translation of sculpture into painting.
The Munich movement does not offer the example of passionate and embittered battles, like those which the Parisian Romanticists maintained against the Classicists of the school of David.
And to many Classicists these things would appear to be vulgar in a more vulgar sense.
St. Symphorien' stood half way between the cold idealism of the classicists and the brutal realism of the romanticists.
Gluck relied to an excessive degree upon the string band, and his orchestral writing lacked that balance which the contemporary and sequent classicists regarded as the fundamental requirement.
And the contributions thereto by the great Italian and French masters are by no means to be underestimated even though the German classicists tower above them.
In the exposition of their symphonies, the classicists usually gave the first theme to the strings, the second to the wood.
For its loftiest mission was realized not only in connection with the German Singspiel of the eighteenth century, but also through its application by the great classicists of the same period as contrasting theme for the Sonata-piece.
The question may well be asked why Brahms should not be regarded as the seventh of the great classicists rather than as a classical-romanticist.
His aims differed from those of the earlier classicists in that his subject-matter embodies beauty of thought rather than external beauty in music.
In other words, Beethoven forged the connecting link between the classicists and the romanticists, between absolute and programmatic, objective and subjective music, between the primarily formal and the essentially soulful.
He is the connecting link between the classicists and the romanticists.
The battery acquire prominence such as the classicists formerly allowed to the trumpets and trombones.
The unfortunate results of the excessive use of such circumlocutions are well exemplified in the later classicists of France.
Their authors were both classicists at heart, or rather classicists in theory, yet with differences.
There is more than this in the classicistsof the seventeenth century.
These works, as their titles indicate, are all defences or apologies, and were called forth by the attacks of the Puritans on poetry, especially dramatic poetry, and the attacks of the classicists on English versification and rhyme.
Moreover, like the classicists of the next century, he affirms, as does Ronsard also, that art must fundamentally imitate and resemble nature.
But while I look and own myself a happy Goth, I have moods, in the presence of his simplicity and severity, when I feel that he and all the classicists may be right.
Of course, his defection gave exquisite pain to the lovers of Italian good taste, as the classicists called themselves, but these were finally silenced by the success of his tragedy.
Take for instance verbal decorum: the French neo-classicists assumed that if the speech of poetry is to be noble and highly serious it must coincide with the speech of the aristocracy.
Certain late neo-classicists lacked imagination and were at the same time always harping on good sense.
Schlegel saw them, were superior to the neo-classicists in being naïve; their spontaneity and unity of feeling had not yet suffered from artificiality, or been disintegrated by analysis.
I have already mentioned their tendency to substitute a logical for an imaginative verisimilitude; and strenuously logical classicists may be found in France from Chapelain to Brunetière.
But though all classicists are alike in insisting on nature, imitation, probability and decorum, they differ widely, as I have already intimated, in what they understand by these terms.
The first of these is that the new French school, instead of fighting the classicists with weapons drawn from the old arsenal of mediaeval France, went abroad for allies; went especially to the modern writers of England and Germany.
The instructive and ethical mannerisms of the later classicists had produced some beautiful and more accomplished verse, especially of a descriptive order, but its very essence had excluded self-revelation.
So devoted were the Spanish neo-classicists to their trans-Pyrenean models that they were unable to see any value in the great Spanish works of the siglo de oro, especially those of the dramatists.
Did he not say that we must become classicists again by way of nature?
And later: "We must again become classicists by way of nature, that is to say, by sensation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "classicists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
