academic art
- noun
- /ˌækəˈdɛmɪk ɑrt/
- Specialized
:
arte académico
- Many critics argue that academic art lacks the emotional depth found in modern styles.
Examples
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In other words, the ways in which most academic art historians, including me, think and write about our subject matter today are very different from those in vogue when I entered the field.
Academic text (2013) -
As a student at the Académie Julian, women like Klumpke received an invaluable introduction to the discipline of drawing and painting from the life model, the cornerstone of an academic art training.
Fiction book (1993) -
To tie the definition of beauty to something as capricious and evanescent as fashion served to undermine the staid foundations of academic art, for the only permanent thing about fashion was change and the avoidance of a definitive aesthetic formula to which an abiding truth could be assigned.
Academic text (1997) -
Locating the primitive impulse across a spectrum of both folk and academic art, Novak compares the work by an anonymous folk artist, Meditation by the Sea (Fig. 1), with those by the American luminists.
Academic text (2001) -
The exhibition featured stunning examples of academic art from the 18th century.
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In his lecture, the professor discussed the techniques unique to academic art as established by European academies.
Synonyms
A style of painting and sculpture that follows traditional rules and careful technique
A style of painting and sculpture that uses traditional subjects and techniques
How Spontaneous
- Specialized
1
9.1
- Specialized
6
8.7
6
7.9
12
6.1
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'academic' (pertaining to schools/academia) and 'art', so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer it means art connected with academic institutions or scholarly/formal approaches. However, the precise art‑historical sense (a specific 18th–19th century academy style with particular technical standards) is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Academic art comes from old art schools called academies, where students were taught strict rules and made copies of classical statues and history paintings so they learned a very careful way of working. So, academic art now means art that follows 'formal rules' and careful technique rather than bold new ideas.