GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In western art history, "academic" applies to the artists and objects influenced by a European academy of fine art training. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the French Academy of Art (Académie des Beaux-Arts) heavily influenced the aesthetic trends in Europe and the United States. Neoclassicism and Romanticism were both movements embraced as academic.
The French Academy of Art was established in 1648 as a place to provide instruction, visibility, and patronage to emerging artists. The academy emphasized a hierarchy of subject matter, with historical and religious subjects considered the most valued, followed by portraiture and still-life, and finally landscape. Due to lack of competition or other avenues of seeking notoriety and subsequent patronage, the Academy and Salons (annual, government sponsored exhibitions) regulated public taste and controlled official patronage.
Adapted from
"Gustave Courbet, Fox in the Snow," DMA Connect (Education), Dallas Museum of Art, 2012. Accessed 1 March 2015.
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This note was previously tagged #routed (and possibly !Routed_Feb15). I am removing those tags and replacing with #draft so that this note proceeds to GDocs for routing and is harvested to Brain. (EAS, 12/22/2016)
Removed dead links shown in the Masterworks of European Art teaching packet for (1992.22.FA)
Note may be revised or expanded with content pulled from French Art of the Eighteenth Century (2016).
Rule applies this CC to all D3C material tagged with academic art. (Tag has been used 12 times in Evernote, 5 of those are drafts in brain.)
Consider deleting the incomplete note for Ecole des Beaux Arts? Will these replicate each other?
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- The Salon and The Royal Academy in the Nineteenth Century~Read Jason Rosenfeld's essay on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2004)
- Artistic Context, from the Courbet Dossier~Check out the Musée d'Orsay's web page for brief histories of The Académie des Beaux-Arts, The Salon, Courbet and the Salon, Academic Painting, Romanticism, and Universal Exhibitions.
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General Description
In western art history, "academic" applies to the artists and objects influenced by a European academy of fine art training. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the French Academy of Art (Académie des Beaux-Arts) heavily influenced the aesthetic trends in Europe and the United States. Neoclassicism and Romanticism were both movements embraced as academic.
The French Academy of Art was established in 1648 as a place to provide instruction, visibility, and patronage to emerging artists. The academy emphasized a hierarchy of subject matter, with historical and religious subjects considered the most valued, followed by portraiture and still-life, and finally landscape. Due to lack of competition or other avenues of seeking notoriety and subsequent patronage, the Academy and Salons (annual, government sponsored exhibitions) regulated public taste and controlled official patronage.
Adapted from
"Gustave Courbet, Fox in the Snow," DMA Connect (Education), Dallas Museum of Art, 2012. Accessed 1 March 2015.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- The Salon and The Royal Academy in the Nineteenth Century~Read Jason Rosenfeld's essay on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2004)
- Artistic Context, from the Courbet Dossier~Check out the Musée d'Orsay's web page for brief histories of The Académie des Beaux-Arts, The Salon, Courbet and the Salon, Academic Painting, Romanticism, and Universal Exhibitions.
Notes
Deleted TMS tags 1979.7.FA; 2005.34.McD
This note was previously tagged #routed (and possibly !Routed_Feb15). I am removing those tags and replacing with #draft so that this note proceeds to GDocs for routing and is harvested to Brain. (EAS, 12/22/2016)
Removed dead links shown in the Masterworks of European Art teaching packet for (1992.22.FA)
Note may be revised or expanded with content pulled from French Art of the Eighteenth Century (2016).
Rule applies this CC to all D3C material tagged with academic art. (Tag has been used 12 times in Evernote, 5 of those are drafts in brain.)
Consider deleting the incomplete note for Ecole des Beaux Arts? Will these replicate each other?
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