Academism
1860 - 1880.
Academic art (
Academism) is a style of painting and
sculpture produced under the influence of European academies and
universities, especially in France, where many artists received their
artistic training. Academic artists spent years in extensive training.
Academic art is characterized by a highly polished style, use of
mythological or historical subject matter, and its moralistic tone.
Academic art paintings look professional, very skilful, and almost
real. Artists such as Jean-Leon Gerome, William Bouguereau, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart are usually
associated with Academism.
Artists and Articles
William Bouguereau Art
William Bouguereau, a French academic painter. His
polished, refined technique and his sophisticated style represented
the height of achievement in the French academic art tradition. His
work was characterized by a highly finished, technically impeccable
realism and a sentimental interpretation of his subject matter.
Bouguereau paintings look professional, very skilful, and almost real.
He masterfully brought together the elements of exquisite drawing,
incredible coloration and perspective, and brilliant modeling and
compositions. There can be little doubt that Bouguereau was one of the
most talented painters of his time. Bouguereau received many honours
in the 1860s and '70s as his career progressed; he exhibited regularly
at the Salon for several decades and became for a time the most famous
French painter of his day. As a proponent of official orthodoxy in
painting, he played a major role in the exclusion of the works of the
Impressionists and other experimental painters from the Salon. He
exerted a wide influence, not only in France but in other countries,
particularly the United States.
- William Bouguereau Art, $25 (175 pictures)
- William Bouguereau. Art and life. Biography.
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