Academism

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.

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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.

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