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.
Not exact matches
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.