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academic art

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academic art (uncountable)

(art) A style of art influenced by European art academies, especially one which lacks innovation or individualism; academism.

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Examples

In the 19th century the Baroque fell into great disfavour, to be revived from about the 1920s, by which time the Academic art of the 18th and 19th century was largely disregarded, and Victorian painting generally, with its equivalents in other countries. Source: Internet

Their art, though varying in style and technique, was the antithesis of the type of Academic art in which Beaux was trained and of which her teacher William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a leading master. Source: Internet

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