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
Example Sentences
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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
Among them is a group of South Asian painters who created lyrical, smooth-lined paintings that merge European academicism with Indian content.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2017
In them he found an alternative to Kano academicism — a simpler, more direct approach to nature and the expression of emotions.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2012
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
His pupils and followers either plodded along unimaginatively, like S�rusier, or drifted off into academicism, like Bernard, or watered down their technique into the tasteless picture-book and stage-costume decoration of Maurice Denis.
From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by Fletcher, John Gould
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