The phrase "academic realism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing educational theories, literary movements, or philosophical perspectives that emphasize a realistic approach to academic subjects.
Example: "The course will explore the principles of academic realism and how they apply to contemporary educational practices."
Alternatives: "scholarly realism" or "educational realism".
In the 1820s, as a teenage apprentice, he learned meticulous academic realism.
Until about age 50, Rohlfs painted large landscapes in the style of academic realism.
But nobody affected him as deeply as Duchamp, whose subversion of orthodoxy was thrilling to Chinese artists raised on academic realism.
Bement taught according to Dow's principles of design, which for O'Keeffe proved eventually to be a way out of the dead end of academic realism.
As the millennium approached, academic realism, the reigning style at the turn of the previous century, began to enjoy a revival.
But far too many other Americans took French academic realism, with its precisions and pretensions, as their sine qua non, the one sure, classy way to go.
This absence results in a certain unopposed homogeneity dominated by a fairly academic quest for realism.
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.
Possibly because he painted out of personal interest rather than professional necessity, he never felt compelled to develop a strict signature style, and moved back and forth between two kinds of realism, academic and Impressionist, old and new.
Barr was sensitive to such criticism and once said, "The truth is that modern art cannot be defined with any degree of finality either in time or in character, and any attempt to do so implies a blind faith, insufficient knowledge, or an academic lack of realism"—a defense that his curatorial activities did not support.
