Académie des Beaux-Arts
The Académie des Beaux-Arts (French pronunciation: [akademi de boz‿aʁ], Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current President of the Academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect.
Background[]
The Academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).
Awards[]
Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including five dedicated prizes:[1]
- Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing
- Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Prize for Music
- Pierre Cardin Prize for Design
- Prize
- Fondation Pierre Gianadda Prize
Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.
Presidents[]
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- 1995: Serge Nigg
- 1996:
- 1997: Jean Cardot
- 1998: Christian Langlois
- 1999:
- 2000: Marius Constant
- 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 2002: Pierre Carron
- 2003:
- 2004: Roger Taillibert
- 2005: Jean Prodromidès
- 2006:
- 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 2008:
- 2009:
- 2010: Roger Taillibert
- 2011: Laurent Petitgirard
- 2012:
- 2013: Lucien Clergue
- 2014:
- 2015:
- 2016:
- 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy
- 2018: Patrick de Carolis
- 2019: Pierre Carron
- 2020:
- 2021 Alain-Charles Perrot
Members[]
Constituted around the notion of multidisciplinarity, the Académie des Beaux-Arts brings together sixty-three members within nine artistic sections, sixteen foreign associate members and sixty-three corresponding members.
The members are grouped into nine sections:
- Section I: Painting
- Section II: Sculpture
- Section III: Architecture
- Section IV: Engraving
- Section V: Musical composition
- Section VI: Unattached (Free) members
- Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields (since 1985)
- Section VIII: Photography (since 2005)
- Section IX: Choreography (since 2018)
Current members:
Section | Seat | Member | Date |
---|---|---|---|
I : Painting
For a list of previous members, see: | |||
2 | Pierre Carron | 1990 | |
4 | Jean Cortot | 2001 | |
5 | 2015 | ||
6 | Vacant | 2012 | |
7 | Vladimir Veličković | 2005 | |
8 | Guy de Rougemont | 1997 | |
9 | Vacant | 2014 | |
10 | Vacant | 2013 | |
11 | 1984 | ||
13 | 2001 | ||
II : Sculpture
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Jean Cardot | 1983 |
2 | 1992 | ||
3 | 2013 | ||
5 | Vacant | 2015 | |
6 | 1990 | ||
7 | 2008 | ||
8 | 1993 | ||
9 | 2007 | ||
III : Architecture
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Jacques Rougerie | 2008 |
2 | Jean-Michel Wilmotte | 2015 | |
3 | 2008 | ||
4 | Roger Taillibert | 1983 | |
5 | Vacant | 2016 | |
6 | Dominique Perrault | 2015 | |
7 | Alain Charles Perrot | 2013 | |
9 | Paul Andreu | 1996 | |
10 | 2002 | ||
11 | Jesse F. Lauck | 1923 | |
IV : Engraving
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | 2008 | |
2 | Pierre-Yves Trémois | 1978 | |
3 | 2016 | ||
4 | 1994 | ||
V : Musical composition
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Laurent Petitgirard | 2000 |
2 | Vacant | 2016 | |
3 | Michaël Levinas | 2009 | |
4 | Gilbert Amy | 2013 | |
5 | François-Bernard Mâche | 2002 | |
6 | Édith Canat de Chizy | 2005 | |
7 | Vacant | 2016 | |
8 | Thierry Escaich | 2013 | |
VI : Unattached members
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | William Christie | 2008 |
3 | Hugues Gall | 2002 | |
4 | Vacant | 2007 | |
5 | Michel David-Weill | 1982 | |
6 | Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière | 2005 | |
7 | Vacant | 2008 | |
8 | Pierre Cardin | 1992 | |
10 | Henri Loyrette | 1997 | |
11 | Patrick de Carolis | 2010 | |
13 | 2000 | ||
VII : Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields
For a list of previous members, see: |
2 | Roman Polanski | 1998 |
3 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2007 | |
4 | Coline Serreau | 2018 | |
5 | Jacques Perrin | 2016 | |
6 | Régis Wargnier | 2007 | |
7 | Frédéric Mitterrand | 2019 | |
VIII : Photography
|
1 | Sebastião Salgado | 2016 |
2 | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | 2006 | |
3 | Bruno Barbey | 2016 | |
4 | Jean Gaumy | 2016 | |
IX : Choreography | 1 | 2019 | |
2 | Blanca Li | 2019 | |
3 | Angelin Preljocaj | 2019 | |
4 | Vacant | ||
Foreign associate members | 1 | Antonio López García | 2012 |
2 | 2016 | ||
3 | 2007 | ||
4 | 2007 | ||
5 | 2019 | ||
6 | 2016 | ||
7 | 2001 | ||
8 | 2016 | ||
9 | 2019 | ||
10 | Woody Allen | 2004 | |
11 | Norman Foster | 2007 | |
12 | Jiří Kylián | 2018 | |
13 | 2013 | ||
14 | Seiji Ozawa | 2001 | |
15 | 1973 | ||
16 | Philippe de Montebello | 2012 |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Académie des Beaux-Arts Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Prix et Concours.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Académie des beaux-arts (France). |
Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about "Académie des Beaux-Arts". |
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