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Return to order

European art movement

Artists of the Return to Order placed high emphasis on the classical ideals of rationality, quality of line, illusionism and order, in opposition to the preceding decades of irrationality and emotional turbulence which characterised the artworks of the avant-garde. Although taking classicism as its foundational inspiration, artists were keen to reinterpret the essence of classical art through the lens of modernism, and a link was often made between the idealism of the classical period and the “Plastic-like” art of the modern era. Many of the works made during the period display modernist tendencies alongside classical subjects and techniques.

This change of direction was reflected and encouraged by the magazine Valori plastici published in Italian and French from 1918 to 1922. The term return to order to describe this renewed interest in tradition is said to derive from Le rappel à l'ordre, a book of essays by the poet and artist Jean Cocteau published in 1926.

Notable artists

Pablo Picasso
Andre Derain
Georges Braque
Salvador Dalí
Giorgio de Chirico
Mariano Andreu
Felice Casorati
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paul Cézanne

Gallery

File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French - The Large Bathers - Google Art Project.jpg|Painting by Renoir that displays an emphasis on line and clarity File:Woman and Child on the Seashore, 1921, Picasso.jpg|Pablo Picasso, Example of the classical principles of art during the return to order. File:Mariano-andreu-i-estany-family-at-countryside.jpg|Painting of a landscape with family, Marino Andreu File:The Seamstresses.png|"The Seamstresses", Massimo Campigli, 1925. Displays elements of modernism alongside classical aspects. File:Portrait of Hena Rigotti, Felice Casorati.webp|A portrait by Felice Casorati, displaying very strong elements of classical influence. File:Still-life-1920.jpg!Large.jpg|Still Life by Le Corbusier, 1920, which blends the geometric cubist style with classical techniques of shading and representation, as well as order and clarity. File:André Derain, 1912, Nature morte (Still Life), oil on canvas, 100.5 x 118 cm, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Black and white).jpg|Still Life by Andre Derain, a forerunner of the fauvist movement.

References

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