Etymology

Stuckism

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Today it means: An international art movement formed in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, opposing conceptual art in favour of figurative painting. Full definition →

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The story

From stuck + -ism, coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson after an angry remark from Tracey Emin, partner of artist Billy Childish: “Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck!”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.