For the branch of study in the humanities, see Classics.Not to be confused with Classism.
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Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, an icon of Neoclassicism in painting
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, clarity of structure, perfection, restrained emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the intellect.[1] The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and completeness through which it retained until the present century its position of authority in the restricted repertoire of visual images."[2] Classicism, as Clark noted, implies a canon of widely accepted ideal forms, whether in the Western canon that he was examining in The Nude (1956).
Classicism is a force which is often present in post-medieval European and European influenced traditions; however, some periods felt themselves more connected to the classical ideals than others, particularly the Age of Enlightenment,[3] when Neoclassicism was an important movement in the visual arts.
^Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 112.
^Clark, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form 1956:242
^Walters, Kerry (September 2011). "JOURNAL ARTICLE Review". Church History. 80 (3): 691–693. doi:10.1017/S0009640711000990. JSTOR 41240671. S2CID 163191669.
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