Dictionary Check: academism
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Definition
noun
orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
noun
a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
Example:
"The setting and treatment of the subject here are typical of his artistic approach, which lies between the idealized academicism of Bouguereau and the social realism of Daumier."
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