Sentence examples for academic conventions from inspiring English sources

Delightfully free of academic conventions and sentimental piety, its aesthetic freshness matches its vitality of soul.

Her refusal to bow to English academic conventions gave her an extraordinary intellectual independence.

At their weakest, abstract painting and serial music developed academic conventions.

All were rebels against academic conventions and aristocratic propriety, amid cascading social changes.

Others reacted against academic conventions, making Paris, as the century progressed, a centre of the Western avant-garde.

In their attempts to break from academic conventions they sought new paths for art, as the first few rooms of the exhibition show.

He did so in radical ways imported from outside academic convention — from his first profession, as a decorator of porcelain china.

Through his exploration of new themes and his break with academic convention, Rossetti remains an important figure in the history of 19th-century English art.

Davis's devotion to drawing, to the act of laying down lines on a surface, had nothing to do with academic convention, which he scorned.

At the same time, Taylor was feeling more and more frustrated at Williams, where he felt hemmed in by academic convention.

Even when their paintings escaped the excessive weight of academic convention, 18th-century masters did not allow their spontaneous perception of the world to come through in the pictures that made them rich.