Tag: classicism

Classicism in French Art: Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David

July 9, 2022
Arts & CultureArts & TraditionBrightclassicismFrench ArtJacques-Louis DavidLife & TraditionNicolas Poussin
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The spring of 2022 was an extraordinary season for French art in the United States. At the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the exhibition “Poussin and the Dance” delved into the Baroque master Nicolas Poussin’s pictorial choreography and showcased a number of paintings executed in Rome during the 1630s. Meanwhile, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in…

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An Artistic Mission

January 4, 2022
American EssenceAustriaBrightClassical Chinese DanceclassicismFeature 1Fei Tian Collegenew masters academyNew YorksculptureShen Yun Performing Arts
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Growing up in Salzburg, Austria, Johanna Schwaiger was constantly surrounded by beautiful art—from the city’s Baroque architecture to majestic fountains and public gardens. “I always thought the masters of these works were of a distant past, … had magical skills, and I thought if I could only learn a little bit of what they knew,…

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An ‘Academical Village’ as a Model for a New Republic

April 30, 2021
American architecturearchitectureArchitecture & InteriorsArts & LettersClassical architectureclassicismHistoric ArchitectureHistoryLifestyleRadiant LifeThomas JeffersonUS Architecture
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If you had traveled with the Marquis de Lafayette to the Piedmont region of Virginia in 1824, you would have been amazed to come upon a beautifully proportioned village being built in the finest tradition of Renaissance planning. Ten pavilions, connected by colonnades extending from a great building resembling the Roman Pantheon, rose impressively above…

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American Classicism and the ‘Gentleman Architect’ Thomas Jefferson

April 29, 2021
American architecturearchitectureArchitecture & InteriorsArts & LettersClassical architectureclassicismHistoric ArchitectureHistoryLifestyleRadiant LifeThomas JeffersonUS Architecture
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In 1784 Thomas Jefferson found himself in France as our first ambassador. While he was there he fell in love. Arrested by its striking classical beauty, the patriot became smitten with a small Roman temple in Nîmes known as the Maison Carrée (square house). Describing it as “the most perfect model existing of what might…

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Here’s Hoping for Beauty in America: Classicism Versus Modernism in Architecture

March 4, 2021
Arts & CulturebeautyclassicismFine Arts & CraftsmanshipLife & Traditionmodernism
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One of Donald Trump’s final acts as the nation’s 45th president was to sign an executive order called “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” He signed the order on Dec. 18, 2020, but it had been kicking around for many months since it was leaked from the White House last winter as a draft proposal with…

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