Editing Eclecticism in art (section)

{{short description|Art style combining multiple styles in a work}}
{{For|the 19th-century art movement known as eclecticism|academic art}}
'''Eclecticism''' is a kind of mixed style in the [[fine arts]]: "the borrowing of a variety of [[Art movement|style]]s from different sources and combining them" {{harv|Hume|1998|loc=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 arts|graphic]] and [[decorative arts]]. In [[music]] the term used may be either [[Eclecticism in music|eclecticism]] or [[polystylism]].