Eclecticism
The process of selecting or borrowing from earlier styles and combining the borrowed elements.
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Eclecticism. Loosely definable as the drawing on many styles by an artist, more specifically the practice of selecting the best from various styles in an attempt to create a style of greater perfection.
eclecticism - A system or method in which individual elements are selected or employed from a variety of sources, systems, or styles. Also see gemütlichkeit, multiculturalism, pastiche, and thematic.
Eclecticism: line conscious borrowing of visual ideas from earlier sources, to recombine them in a harmonious whole; used to be a critical term more recently a Post-Modernist compliment.
Louis Tiffany's Eclecticism a Harbinger of Art Nouveau
By Roberta Smith
Taipei Times
November 30, 2006 ...
Italian influences, eclecticism, portrait painting, El Greco.
Tenebrism, Velázquez, the schools of Seville and Madrid.
In this context it is often called academism, academicism, L'art pompier, and eclecticism, and sometimes linked with historicism and syncretism. The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called academic art.
Shostakovich's musical influence on later composers outside the former Soviet Union has been relatively slight, although Alfred Schnittke took up his eclecticism, and his contrasts between the dynamic and the static, ...
His greatness derives from eclecticism and the spirit of humanity that saturate his paintings. The Christ figure shimmers on the cross glorious against a background of gold, creating a mood of wonderment and mystery.
Also called academism, academicism, art pompier and eclecticism, artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-leon Gerome epitomize the academic style.
Postmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression, collage, pastiche, and irony.
The term eclectic describes works or methods of production that draw on a variety of techniques, styles or traditions. Eclecticism The practice of selecting or borrowing from earlier styles and combining the borrowed elements.
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Emphasizing the beauty of the curve, the Art Nouveau artists sought to combat the rampant eclecticism of ninetenth-century design. In painting, however, a more complex goal was implicit; to free painting from imitative realism.
In Gossaert’s small painting, Madonna and Child, Jesus’ robust but ungainly pose, for example, recalls ancient statues of the baby Herakles. This eclecticism met the varied demands of Antwerp’ ...
It is reflected also by the paintings of Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. Academic Art is also called academism, academicism, art pompier, and eclecticism, and sometimes linked with historicism and syncretism.
both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Suzor-Coté, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", ...
 See also: Painting, Movement, Classic, Roman, School
  
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