Formalesque

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960 not-comparable

Etymology

From formal + -esque; coined in 1994 by Australian art historian Bernard Smith, since the period referred to by "modernist" was by then no longer modern.

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