(1) In spite of postmodernism's loosening of the modernist canon, the stigma against classicism remains robust.(2) Increased consciousness of empire and respect for the clarity of French classicism had much to do with this change.(3) Principles typically associated with classicism include order, proportion, balance, harmony, decorum, avoidance of excess.(4) Greek and Roman classicism had been an important part of that tradition.(5) Elegance, classicism and restraint are never out of style.(6) Art historians today emphasize his fundamental role in the complex cultural evolution of Renaissance ideals, successfully integrating Christianity and classicism in a perfect synthesis.(7) There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism.(8) The range of his pictorial language remained broad, with a variety of classicism and naturalism from one large canvas to the next, and sometimes within individual works.(9) Roman classicism had inspired Palladian architecture which was favoured by the Whig ascendancy in Britain.(10) Projecting onto Homeric poetry the aesthetic principles of classicism , she wanted its perfection of form and content always to be emphasized.(11) This robust, indecorous, and accommodating vernacular tradition was not universally hostile to the spirit or methods of Renaissance classicism : it simply took from them what it wanted and adapted it to local practice.(12) It is easy to appreciate the breadth of the works on display, as they cover artistic concepts ranging from classicism to abstraction, and record the influence of European as well as local movements.(13) In this fertile period he has embraced aspects of classicism , formalism, surrealism and most obviously, postmodernism.(14) The classicism associated with Indian spin is clearly a post-war phenomenon.(15) A stickler for classicism , he follows the traditional style in composing ghazals.(16) This last consideration is too often forgotten in the tiresomely polarised debate about modernism and classicism which continues to rage.
