But he saw something noble, too, in the relentless search: "It is also deeply connected with the highest virtues of academic man — the impulse toward perfection".
The paintings tend to be skirmishes of contradictory impulses: academic idealization, gritty realism, bravura society-portrait brushwork and even proto-kitsch.
His works tend to be skirmishes of contradictory impulses: academic idealization, gritty realism, bravura society-portrait brushwork and thick, modern-looking impastos slathered and scarred with a palette knife.
What photographer, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and installation artist Luigia Gio Martelloni pursues, across and in-between an array of studio mediums, is a unique hybrid of academic training, personal impulses, and formal influences that run the gamut from Old Master painting to Neorealist cinema and the poetic found-object innovations of the post-War poveristas.
Artist and academic Edward Chell has translated this Romantic impulse to a landscape unique to the modern age: the tufty, brambled bits of wilderness that flank motorways, what the Highways Agency terms "soft estate".
Attention deficits may increase during childhood as academic demands, such as demands on impulse control and response inhibition, increase.
The primary goals of therapy for ADHD, using stimulants and behavioral treatments, are to improve academic performance, decrease disruptive behaviors, improve impulse control, and improve family and peer relationships.
Foucault contrasts the 'vehemence and intensity' of appeals to Marxism in Tunisia, to the Marxism he experienced in France, in which the revolutionary impulse is reduced to the format of 'cold academic discussion'.
The films do not really function as partisan political tools; if anything, they share a populist impulse that finds its devils mostly in the interlocking political, business and academic elites.
The impulse manifests as a list printed by the elevator that, like a true academic, Maloof appended as "footnotes" to her piece.
