Eclecticism In Art
Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them" (Hume 1998, 5). Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact that it was not a particular style. In general, the term describes the combination in a single work of a variety of influences — mainly of elements from different historical styles in architecture, painting, and the graphic and decorative arts. In music the term used may be either eclecticism, crossover music, or polystylism.
The process of the synthesis and/or entropy of arts. A mixing and gelling of existing artistic elements which then create a new genre; thereby increasing the total pool of existing sources of influence on future perspectives.
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