Quite Impressive Jun 15, 2008
Like too much academic art history, Pollock's essay deadens subjects it ought to enliven. Such rhetoric, whatever truth may lie behind it, threatens to drive readers toward rather than lead them out of sentimental response to art of genuine but easily overlooked substance. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Explore Cuban Art Apr 20, 2008
Composed of poets, writers and musicians Arte Nuevo was a catalyst for young artists in the 1920s with fresh ideas and who longed to subvert traditional academic art that ruled the Cuban cultural scene. From this new school of thought emerged criollismo, a movement where avant-garde artists re-interpreted Afro-Cuban art by legitimizing this culture as an essential part of the national heritage. (Suite101.com)
At the Modern, art in a New York minute Apr 11, 2008
If anything in the show came in for a satirical drubbing, it was the kind of archly academic art writing that sometimes accompanies such exhibitions. On the Web site, Lawrence's sculptures and drawings are described as ones in which "symbols and objects reach alterity through displacement or geometric operations." Hartshorn's works are said to create an "introverted tautology." (Can a tautology be introverted. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The road to the abstract in Balinese painting Feb 3, 2008
Since the 1970s, however, abstraction in Balinese painting has gained ground in the academic art world. This process of modernization has encouraged painters to be effective and efficient in their work, including the way they approach and deal with their subject matter and its visual elements. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Art world no longer could ignore Vegas Sep 29, 2007
Hickey's rants about academic art programs and out-of-touch professors had circulated in the art world. He'd written for several national publications and was a revered critic. (Las Vegas Sun)
So, like, this is Harvard Sep 8, 2007
He did mention the Fogg Art Museum, housing the world's largest academic art collection 150,000 medieval to modern works from around the world. You should go there if you have extra time, he gushed. (Globe and Mail)
ABOVE THE FOLD Jul 12, 2007
k.a. Twist) and Chris Johanson and provided a venue for the "Beautiful Losers" show, says that it is "interesting and important" to work with artists outside the traditional academic art world, although this is not without pitfalls. He points to the artists' sense of him or herself as the reason why someone like Above would shrink from a gallery show at this juncture. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Masters of American Drawings and Watercolors, Foundations of the Collection, 19041922 Jun 28, 2007
Naturalism, aestheticism, and academic art are dominant trends seen among the artists of the early drawings and watercolors collection. Beatty, who studied painting at the Royal Academy in Munich in the 1870s, believed in the academic tradition of technical skill and delicately evoked mood. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Finding the fun and frolics in Hogarth Feb 7, 2007
Hogarth's naturalism goes hand-in-hand with a dislike for academic art and for all things foreign. Elegant without being pompous, he will start a subject with a straight face and end it with a guffaw. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Kids, parents signing up for musical expression Feb 6, 2007
News - newsjournalonline. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2007. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
