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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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
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
Mr. Meade is describing the essence of contemporary academicism, and while he puts a positive spin on this, it could be read as a devastating critique.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2010
It has already been said that the chief opponents of the academicism of Cabanel and Bougereau were the Impressionists.
From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by Fletcher, John Gould
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