According to Tomas Kulka, any academic painting made after the time of academism, is kitsch by nature.
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He knew the spirit of academism and, on the other hand, he felt the spirit of Impressionistic freedom.
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In the 1950s, when the Grand Prix was awarded to established artists, the avant-garde snarled about outdated academism.
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On the other hand, consider an older Spaniard like Ignacio Zuloaga, long regarded as the discreditable essence of flashy, virtuoso academism.
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Meyerhold confronted the principles of theatrical academism, claiming that they are incapable of finding a common language with the new reality.
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Influenced mainly by Rubens and the late Michelangelo, Wiertz'monumental painting often moves between classical academism and lurid romanticism, between the grandiose and the ridiculous.
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It is important to note that most Realists and Impressionists and others among the early avant-garde who rebelled against academism were originally students in academic ateliers.
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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.