Word: faddish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faddish folly, perhaps, but not to be deplored. Art has prospered by being the slave of Fashion. Much great work had never been painted had not the good ladies of the Renaissance believed it fashionable to see their portraits as saints and virgins frescoed upon their walls, or had not the ladies of a later period sighed to see themselves as muses, graces, nymphs...