Wiktionary
n. (context arts English) A style of art influenced by European art academy, especially one which lacks innovation or individualism; academism.
Wikipedia
Academic art, or Academicism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", " L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with " historicism" and " syncretism".
Usage examples of "academic art".
He had long ago mastered the academic art of appearing to pay rapt attention while his mind worked a spiral arm away.
The whole endless drill of academic art, and wash brushes and sweep out the studio.
The consensus, including the opinions of those who actually detested the picture, was an agreement that the crack represented the final and inevitable break between traditional academic art and the new art of the twentieth century.