academicism
Americannoun
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traditionalism or conventionalism in art, literature, etc.
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thoughts, opinions, and attitudes that are purely speculative.
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pedantic or formal quality.
noun
Etymology
Origin of academicism
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Also on view are five smaller paintings from the 1880s and ’90s that touch on Klimt’s development from the romanticized academicism evident in the public murals to his late landscapes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Certainly, it’s clearly a part of black American culture—most of the participants are black—but the movie doesn’t deploy even a footnote of Adam’s earnest academicism to illuminate the sociology and history of the art.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2018
He nimbly avoided the pitfalls of yahooism, academicism, social realism and surrealist kitsch and, in so doing, forged a style that was exemplary for its technical and expressive economy, if not for daring imagination.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2011
Artists like Seurat and Gauguin searched for an art that owed nothing to the stale models of academicism but possessed the substance and authority that Impressionism had let fall away.
From Time ● Feb. 18, 2010
Never before or since, I fancy, has the air of the Adirondack wilderness vibrated more repugnantly to a vocable than it did that night to the word "academicism."
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
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