Sentences with word «academism»

This makes for an intensely readable experience — there is no turgid academism that needs excising in these tautly - rendered two hundred or so pages.

The prolific character of what is to become recognized years later as specifically Brazilian modernism was rooted in a rejection of the strict academism, experimentation, and strong socio - political engagement.

Some of them would eventually climb to stardom, but in those early days they were underdogs, dissenters from the mainstream academism and from «regionalists,» like Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood.

Other works from the first half of the 20th century include paintings by artists ranging from Modernists Milton Avery and Marsden Hartley to John Sloan, George Luks, and other members of the Eight, a group of American artists that united to oppose academism.

The emergence of this kind of academism within the field of the relatively young Chinese video art guarantees the backing necessary for experimentally working younger generations.

Olga uses new media as a means of expressing her own system of poetics based on the dialectics of high and low academism: where the artist endeavors to strike a balance between high - style classical models and contemporary elements of abstraction.

But many years have passed since then, and what was once suited to challenging the status quo with critical intent, or to redefine it to progressive ends, has since become the status quo itself — an aesthetic and conceptual academism that is selling better than ever.

Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a group of filmmakers known as the Société des Réalisateurs de Films who sought to counter the academism of the main part of the world - renowned festival.

The first requirement of this academism is that it be uglier than a mud fence, secondly it must be inflated with pompous verbiage to explain why it's important.

They were men of widely different tendencies, held together mainly by their common opposition to academism.