In reaction to what he regarded
as the academicism of the teaching curriculum he turned to making sculpture out of rubbish, to performance art and to producing photographic works in which he often posed.
Not exact matches
You have to wonder, however, if the same will be true at a school like Hyde, where character is understood
as a kind of antidote to excessive
academicism.
He saw his destiny
as a continual vanguard action against the forces of
academicism in art and conservatism in society.
Critics hoping to greet some kind of
academicism as the new millenium hoped too hard for just that.
Korean Dansaekhwa painting emerged in the 1970s
as a reaction to the
academicism of the National Art Exhibition and the country's rapidly changing social and political landscape.
They picture a worldly knowing — an
academicism, to say the least — and embody a taste — in other words, a class —
as forms of content to work with, not to solely depict.
Lance Esplund, in the NYSun suggests that the National Academy can't seem to purge the
academicism:»
As I have said in the past, the National Academy and its museum, which has recently mounted important shows of Jean HÃ © lion, David Smith, and Louis Michel Eilshemius, are a crucial part of the New York art world.