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Abolitionist favors the abolition of a practice or institution, esp. capital punishment or (formerly) slavery
Abstract art Generally representational, but greatly simplified and or geometrified. In common usage as it is applied to modern twentieth-century art, an abstract work implies considerable simplification, distortion, and often a geometrification of forms. Nevertheless, most twentieth-century art is still representational, in that one can recognize figures derived from the natural world. Representational art may also be referred to as figural, or objective painting. Art that does not represent recognizable figures or objects is properly known as nonrepresentational, nonobjective, non-figural, or pure abstraction. Unfortunately, usage of the term "abstract" or "abstraction" is not consistently, so that many writers use "abstract" when referring to nonrepresentational art. In more general terms, to abstract means to simplify. To some extent, all art is abstract art. Art is art because it is not nature, but a re-presentation of nature, during which there is, to a greater or lesser degree, a certain amount of simplification and, or, distortion.
Academic art Government-sponsored program based on notion that art’s purpose is to serve public and its principles can be taught. Once meant simply the "art of the Academy" —that is, art based on academic principles. Having now acquired a negative connotation, it is often used to describe an artist or artwork that is technically proficient but derivative, as well as short on imagination or genuine emotion. It was academic art — and the system of official support for it —against which modernist avant-garde artists rebelled. [The Salons] institutionalized art training, and established a strict hierarchy of subjects. History painting (biblical or classical subjects) ranked first, then portraits and landscapes, and finally still lifes and genre paintings, which were scenes of everyday life....By the
Abstract art Generally representational, but greatly simplified and or geometrified. In common usage as it is applied to modern twentieth-century art, an abstract work implies considerable simplification, distortion, and often a geometrification of forms. Nevertheless, most twentieth-century art is still representational, in that one can recognize figures derived from the natural world. Representational art may also be referred to as figural, or objective painting. Art that does not represent recognizable figures or objects is properly known as nonrepresentational, nonobjective, non-figural, or pure abstraction. Unfortunately, usage of the term "abstract" or "abstraction" is not consistently, so that many writers use "abstract" when referring to nonrepresentational art. In more general terms, to abstract means to simplify. To some extent, all art is abstract art. Art is art because it is not nature, but a re-presentation of nature, during which there is, to a greater or lesser degree, a certain amount of simplification and, or, distortion.
Academic art Government-sponsored program based on notion that art’s purpose is to serve public and its principles can be taught. Once meant simply the "art of the Academy" —that is, art based on academic principles. Having now acquired a negative connotation, it is often used to describe an artist or artwork that is technically proficient but derivative, as well as short on imagination or genuine emotion. It was academic art — and the system of official support for it —against which modernist avant-garde artists rebelled. [The Salons] institutionalized art training, and established a strict hierarchy of subjects. History painting (biblical or classical subjects) ranked first, then portraits and landscapes, and finally still lifes and genre paintings, which were scenes of everyday life....By the