Sentences with phrase «of academicism»

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.

This is the essence of academicism.

Critics hoping to greet some kind of academicism as the new millenium hoped too hard for just that.

His tradition - consciousness was not a form of academicism.

He saw his destiny as a continual vanguard action against the forces of academicism in art and conservatism in society.

Trower comes out of a background in journalism and his writing is refreshingly free of the trammels of academicism.

Not exact matches

Many students and faculty members are impatient with an academicism the freedom of which is purchased at the price of sterility and uselessness.

The exaggerated, unambiguous expressivity and the connect - the - dots definitions of character (featuring pat confessions and reheated memories) reflect the closed - off academicism of acting workshops and screenplay pitches rather than the open - ended complexities of life.

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 is, in other words, an academic, and when academicism reaches this pitch of handsomely overbearing blandness, you've got art that's guaranteed not to put a crimp in your day.

Nigerian - born, Berlin - based Otobong Nkanga's early training in the converging traditions of live arts and performance lend a decidedly wayward, playful charge to her research - heavy artistic practice, steering her work away from the dour academicism that so often cripples art projects invested in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

In 1897, when Gustav Klimt and eighteen others withdrew from Vienna's Künstlerhaus to protest the decorative academicism that prevailed there, the Secession, Austria's version of the salon des refusés, was born.

a killer mix of self - indulgence and academicism.»

I find his brand of figurative painting closest to late 20thcentury figurative academicism.

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.

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.

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.

In retrospect, it seems I was in an aesthetic ghetto from 1974 until 1979 — 80 — a ghetto of Greenbergian academicism that was ultimately a dead end, although painters like Jules and Larry Poons slipped in under the wire.

The great question now is how to preserve and even honor the age - old stability of painting without falling into the trap of a frozen academicism.

This endurance - based work ethic is not a resurgent academicism but rather evidence of the eternal relevance of the individual hand in art of which drawing is the foundational core.

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».

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.

While the rational constructions of the Cubists had given modern art perhaps its most impressive and elevated style, by the late twenties much of the generative power of the movement had been lost or supplanted by an abstract 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.