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Noun: academic art
  1. A style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art
    "The setting and treatment of the subject here are typical of his artistic approach, which lies between the idealized academic art of Bouguereau and the social realism of Daumier.";
    - academicism, academism

Type of: artistic style, idiom

Encyclopedia: Academic art