This article is about art. For philosophy, see Eclecticism.
Eclecticism is a mixed style in the fine arts, whose features are taken from various sources and styles. Considerably, eclecticism almost never constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact that this was not a particular style. In general, the term describes the combination with a work only of a variety of influences - mainly elements of different historical styles in architecture, painting, and graphic and decorative arts.
The term "eclectic" was first used by Johann Joachim Winckelmann to characterize Carracci's art, which incorporated elements of the Renaissance and classical traditions into his paintings. Indeed, Agostino, Annibale and Lodovico Carracci had tried to combine in the line of Michelangelo's art, the color of Titian, the chiaroscuro of Correggio, the symmetry of Raphael and grace.
In the 18th century, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the head of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was one of the most influential advocates of eclecticism. In the sixth of his famous Academic Discourses (1774), he wrote that the painter can use the work of antiquity as "a magazine" of common characteristics, always open to the public, of where each man has a right to take materials that he is pleased In the 19th century, in England, John Ruskin also pleaded for eclecticism. In Architecture Main article: Eclectic architecture
Eclecticism was an important concept in Western architecture during the mid and late nineteenth century, and this reappeared in a new aspect in the latter part of the 20th century.
It was very popular at the Belle Époque. Bibliography
Chueca Goitia, Fernando. History of Western Architecture: X. Eclecticism. Dossat Pocket. pp. 3-4. ISBN 84-237-0460-2. | fechaacceso = requires | url = (help)
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