Lecture

Academicism: The Origin of Struggle

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HUM-394: Manufacturing artistic identities from the 19th to the 21st centuries

L'enseignement propose une introduction à l'histoire de l'art contemporain du XIXe au XXIe siècles, permettant d'aborder les oeuvres selon une approche esthétique et sociale ...

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This lecture delves into the academic art movement, focusing on the struggle within and through images. It explores key artworks from various salons, highlighting the normative constraints faced by academic artists and the subsequent rejection of these norms by modern artists. The presentation covers the societal and aesthetic norms imposed by the academic system, contrasting them with the innovative approaches of modern artists. Through a series of slides showcasing works by renowned artists such as Daumier, Gérôme, Cabanel, and Delacroix, the lecture illustrates the shift towards more contemporary and socially relevant themes, challenging traditional artistic conventions and embracing new forms of expression.

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Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered a new avant-garde movement. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurative art).

Contemporary art

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism".

Academic art

Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which was practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart.

Social norm

Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups. Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. Social normative influences or social norms, are deemed to be powerful drivers of human behavioural changes and well organized and incorporated by major theories which explain human behaviour. Institutions are composed of multiple norms.

Performance art

Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art.

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