Can Anyone Help - I Don't Know In Which Section To Post This?

[Stargazer]

I am trying to find the right word and I thought my vocabulary would have been board enough to put my finger on it. But I am at a loss ....

What is the term given to the various "fashions", "movements", "styles" of periods of art over the centuries? ie cubism, abstract, realism, renaissance, I wish to refer to an Artist's having resisted the temptation to "go along with the crowd" and thus conform to the current popular style of art that was being turned out during a certain period and who chose to go against the grain of popular work and produce outrageous and controversial, possibly even leading to criminal persecution which at the time of his subject matter may have led to him being prosecuted for promoting or agreeing with, for example, in this case, homosexuality in the middle 20th Century. He was overtly producing work which could have led to his being villified (and may well have been), mocking conventional acceptance of the staus quo. He is now dead and his work is recognised but I have to use a word in an essay to convey his contempt of the " ****** " of the period and going out of his way to upset the apple cart and offend etc.

[pixie373]

Conventions?

[EcclesCake]

Contempt of the establishment?

[ladybirder]

Mores?

[Calibax]

Zeitgeist?

[sunny-dave]

conventions ?

[Stargazer]

It may be conventions Pixie (though it does not evoke "eureka"!
but must be a noun Ecclescake. eg "movement"

[Calibax]

milieu?

[sunny-dave]

Mores is good

[sunny-dave]

"contempt for the social and cultural mores of the period"

[pixie373]

Modus vivendi?

[shoota]

Genre

[shoota]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/genre

[gen2]

genre?

[EcclesCake]

Aaah right, my mistake?!?!

[pixie373]

Sensitivities, even?

[andres]

There was a programme not long ago.Can't remember the channel but it was all about the artists who don't 'go with the crowd'. They are called--Extreme Artists. Fascinating programme!

[Stargazer]

What an erudite bunch you are! I guess, maybe incorrectly, that those who are looking at this around midday and onwards on a Saturday in the New Year and answering with such appropriate (or close) suggestions are from an older age group. Or, like me, are retired and have very exacting standards of the English language. Unlike some of the younger generation who have been educated by what I can only deduce are inadequate, uneducated, illiterate teachers of the English language. I am referring to some of the State Schools notably as I am of the opinion that Fee Paying Schools would not employ these substandard teachers of their Mother tongue.
I expect many of the younger generation have better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than look at Answerbank, but bless them, I was one of them in my younger days (in the 1960's!!)
P.S. Genre is good!!!

[andres]

Homoeroticsm!

[pastafreak]

Genre refers to a classification system of styles,but also specifically the style of painting everyday life. Mores may be a better choice for the context you want to use it in, as it refers to current conventions in a society....what is 'acceptable'.

[EcclesCake]

I'll be sure to keep my two penneth to myself in future in fear of revealing the poor standard of teaching I received.

In the meantime I'll refamiliarse myself with nouns........