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Academic Art - Academy of Art
Academic Art is a style of sculpture and painting
produced under the influence of European academies or universities
of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Academic
art is specifically the art and artists influenced by
the standards of the French Académie des Beaux
Arts.
Academic Artists:
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Suzor-Coté, Pierre Auguste Cot,
Guillaume Seignac, Emile Munier, Jean-Paul Laurens, Jean-Léon
Gérôme, Paul Delaroche, Alexandre Cabanel, Thomas Couture,
Franz von Lenbach, Eugene de Blaas, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
Frederic Leighton, Sir Alfred Gilbert, Alfred Stevens, Thomas Couture and Hans Makart.
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Academic Art, academism, academicism, L'art pompier, eclecticismith,
historicism and syncretism - Jean-Léon Gérôme. |
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The birth of Venus,
William-Adolphe Bouguereau. |
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. The real schools
should be the streets."
Oscar Wilde
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Academic Art is
often called academicism, L'art
pompier or eclecticism and is sometimes also
linked with historicism and syncretism.
Definition Kitch Art
Kitsch = a term of Yiddish or German origin that
has been used to categorize art that is considered tasteless
copy of an existing art movement. The term is also used
in referring to art that is pretentious to the point of
being bad taste or commercially produced items that are
considered trite or crass.
The first academy of art,
The Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno, was founded
in Florence in Italy in 1562 by Giorgio Vasari.
In
1582 Annibale Carracci opened his very influential Academy
of Desiderosi in Bologna.
The Accademia di San Luca
was founded about a decade later in Rome.
Accademia
di San Luca later served as the model for the Académie Royale
de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in France in 1648, which
later became the Académie des Beaux Arts.
In Europe
Academies using the French model was formed and the academies
imitated the teachings and styles of the French Académie.
In England, this was the Royal Academy.
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Women artists were excluded from most academies until
the last half of the nineteenth century, 1861 for the Royal
Academy.
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Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA,
1830 - 1896, English painter and sculptor. |
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The Dahesh Museum of Art
The Dahesh Museum of Art is an institution devoted to collecting
and exhibiting Academic Art by Europe's academically trained
artists.
► Academic Art, The Dahesh Museum of Art
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The Art Renewal Center
The Art Renewal Center is a educational organization committed
to reviving standards of craftsmanship and excellence. Only
by gaining a full command of the skills of the past masters
can we create the masters of tomorrow.
► Academic Art, The Art
Renewal Center
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Painting, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Harem Servant Girl, Paul Désiré Trouillebert 1829-1900,
French
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"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
Oscar Wilde
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Dawn, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1863.
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Luis Ricardo Falero, spanish, 1851-1896
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