A new academicism has gained in popularity among African American artists, to assert pride in themselves, their ancestry, and life on the street.
Not exact matches
Critics hoping to greet some kind of
academicism as the
new millenium hoped too hard for just that.
The struggle is no longer one of resuscitating the
New York School's «heroic» address to blank canvas and all that its emptiness might symbolize, but of painting improvisationally without falling into pastiche, nostalgia or
academicism.
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.