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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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
I find their performance redolent of a desiccated academicism, but even an enthusiast would be hard-pressed to name this group as the one worthiest of the most concentrated visual attention.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 25, 2016
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
The more I see of academicism the more I distrust it.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
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