ideal art - Art which aims to be the true, eternal reality. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this included some Neoclassical art, which emulated the forms and ideas found in classical art (Greece and Rome).
Ideal art
art of various periods that is based on the artist's conception rather than visual perception, e.g. the art of the High Renaissance, or of 17th-century classicism.
Illumination ...
The word orphique had been used by the Symbolists and originated in the Greek myth of Orpheus, who was significant as the ideal artist for the Symbolists.
André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture wanted something unique and decided Chagall would be the ideal artist.
is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art."
Kenneth Clark (1903-1983), English art writer. The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art.
 See also: Movement, Roman, Aesthetic, Sculpture, Painting
  
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