formalesque

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English

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Etymology

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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.

Adjective

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formalesque (not comparable)

  1. (art) modernist; of the artistic style of the period from around 1890 to 1960