The first was a rejection of academicism and fixed Western forms of composition.
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The compromises of academicism have no place in religious art, or art in general.
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Kirk also detects a move into conservative insularity and academicism.
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Each image is an exercise in Baroque extravagance mingled with 19th-century Russian academicism.
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His academicism and grand-manner painting span styles from Baroque to incipient Neoclassicism.
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We can't do things with the academicism of economists.
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This is the new academicism, and as Nottingham shows, it serves neither artists nor audiences well.
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That legacy survives, but as May's history attests, the very academicism from which it once liberated writers and readers is now strangling it.
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They were united by a disdain for the staid academicism that bedevilled most late 19th-century Scottish painting, and by an enthusiasm for more modern modes.
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Scholasticism: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities.
A tenet of the Academic philosophy; A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy; traditional or orthodox formalism