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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