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.
Not exact matches
Critics hoping to greet some kind of
academicism as the new millenium hoped too hard
for just that.
It's a quality shared with Henri Rousseau, with whom Eilshemius was grouped in Museum Folkwang's recent «In the Shadow of the Avant - Garde»: both were ambivalent about
academicism, both somehow avant - garde and vernacular, both candidates
for the contested status of «outsider artist».
He wrote to Greenberg in 1956, acknowledging that he had set himself the seemingly impossible «task of taking painting out of
academicism and all the collective traps laid down
for it by the need
for security in the name of rationalism, culture, aesthetics and other conventional alibis.