formalism
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Conflict-Averse Formalism: The second most common type of art in public, these works are most notable for being inoffensively pretty at a time when people can take offense at anything.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Formalism is a foxhole that too many photographers have burrowed into, perhaps in an effort to demonstrate that their work qualifies as art.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2021
In the art world we have something dubbed "Zombie Formalism", directed at a certain type abstraction that is supposedly corporate safe and content free.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2016
In the art world we have something dubbed "Zombie Formalism", directed at a certain type abstraction that is supposedly corporate safe and...
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2016
It is a Book contradicting all rules of Formalism, that have not a Reality within them, which so few have;—testifying, the more quietly the worse, internecine war with Quacks high and low.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
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