Critics hoping to greet some kind of academicism as the new millenium hoped too hard for just that. (haberarts.com)
This is not a negative judgment of the works in this exhibition, but Painter Painter fell victim to what Greenberg described as academicism: «that particular widespread form of artistic dishonesty which consists in the attempt to escape of the problems of the medium of one art by taking refuge in the effects of another.» (brooklynrail.org)
With puzzling abstractions this winter from Brown, James Hyde, and Rebecca Purdum, I could find myself sorting out academicism for a long time to come. (haberarts.com)