Academic Paintings
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Still Life with Clock, Teapot, Teacup, and Book
By Franz Krischke
Located in Houston, TX
Wonderful still life oil painting by Franz Krischke from the 1950s. Painting depicts a clock, teapot, teacup, and open book arranged on a tabletop. Framed in a heavy, rustic frame. S...
Category
1950s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution, Painting by Mary Fish
By Mary Fish
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mary Fish
Title: Transmutations: A Study of Systems Substitution
Year: 1980
Medium: Ink and Tempera on Paper, signed
Size: 33.5 x 56 in. (85.09 x 142.24 cm)
Category
1980s Academic Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Still life pear and grape - Oil on canvas 25x30 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas with frame
unsigned
Total size with frame 31x39 cm
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Two Marines in Pair
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BURLING Gilbert (1843-1875)
Two oil on wood panel signed low right
Showing scenes of fishing by the sea
Frames giglded with leaves
Size wood panel : 22 X 41 cm (each)
Size frame : 33...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Paolo Uccello's "Battle of San Romano" Painted in 1438
Located in Houston, TX
After Paolo Uchello's set of three paints titled "The Battle of San Romano." Originally painted around 1438 to 1440. Uccello depicts events that took place ...
Category
20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venus Cast - Figurative Painting Colors Black Purple White Yellow Grey
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
"Venus cast"
Oil on canvas
(The painting is unframed 70 x 50 cm.)
The Painting’s Qualities
Lyubena Fox’s paintings are painted in several layers, using both the transparent and opaque qualities of oil paint. Each layer is applied after the previous has dried which makes the painting withstand time. It also creates a glowing, three-dimensional effect, which is due to the different layers showing though each other. These paintings are painted following the logic of how the eye perceives: seeing the details in the context of the form. To create a fulfilling experience, the images are composed of places, full of detail for the eye to explore and places where the eye can rest.
“The impressions of Lyubena's paintings on the viewer is so mighty, mesmerizing, grand, that it paralyzes the imagination with its realistic perfection.
Her paintings bring emotion of drama, mystery, love, desire and energy, represented by the vast creative power of her talent.”
Bio
Lyubena Fox was born in 1994 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
2013 she graduated from the National school of fine arts Bulgaria, specializing in illustration. The same year she moved to Florence, Italy to study painting with John M. Angel and in 2016 graduated from Angel Academy of Art Florence, after which she studied with Alessandro Dari.
2017 she has two solo exhibitions in Sofia.
2018 Lyubena has three of her paintings qualified as ARC finalists and later in May studies painting with her favorite contemporary painter Roberto Ferri...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Siblings hugging
Located in GB
The painting is round in shape, a tondo, which was a style sometimes favoured in the 19th century for its intimacy and decorative appeal. It depicts two siblings: the older sister cr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Magnolia Grandiflora, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Magnolia Grandiflora" is an oil painting that depicts a nude figure in the foreground with a bright red backgroun...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Woman Reading by JOZEF ISRAËLS - Dutch painter, Hague School, portrait art
Located in London, GB
Woman Reading by JOZEF ISRAËLS (1824-1911)
Oil on Panel
21 x 12.5 cm (8 1/4 x 4 15/16 inches)
Signed lower right
Executed circa 1870
Artist biography
Du...
Category
19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Rowboat in a Summer Landscape" George Bacon Wood, Pleine Air Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Bacon Wood
Rowboat in a Summer Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on wood panel
6 1/4 x 8 inches
Born in Philadelphia, landscape painter George Bacon Wood, Jr., studied at the ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A.Bachman (1863-1956), painting view of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Lively view of Venice
Oil on wood panel signed low left
Old frame regilded with gold leaves
Dim wood : 24 X 34 cm
Dim frame : 38 X 48 cm
BA...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antoni Costa Woman. original figurative academician drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
woman. original figurative academician drawing painting.. frame
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD....
Category
1950s Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Current, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Current" is an oil painting that depicts a lone figure in a golden field with clouds holding a floral fabric agai...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vue du château de Versailles depuis la place d’Armes
Located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR
Henry Tenré received a solid training in Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre’s studio at the Julian Academy from 1875 to 1885. Then he studied under the multi-medallist landscape pa...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lively conversation around a balustrade
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Dimensions with frame : 83 x 101.5 x 3.5 cm
This 19th-century painting depicts a genre scene, typical of the academic and romantic art of the period. It shows three fi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Leaves I, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Leaves I" is an oil painting that depicts yellow Fall leaves with a cream colored background
Elizabeth Zanzinger...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
1940s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harbour with Characters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Follower of Emile Jean Horace Vernet (French, 1789–1863)
Marine Harbour With Characters
Oil on canvas signed low left - Signature to read
Old frame gilded with leaves
Size canvas : 4...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Envolée Légère
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Party Skull #1, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Party Skull #1" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull in profile with blow outs and party regalia on blue and purple background.
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Feedback Loop, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Feedback Loop" is an oil painting that depicts peculiar machine with wiring and red in interior with white background
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an awa...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Two Arches, Prospect Park Brooklyn, sunlight architectural urban landscape
By Gregory Frux
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on Canvas
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prism, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Prism" is an oil painting that depicts a woman in the foreground looking into the distance with an atmospheric su...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Feeding the Young
By Edmund Adler
Located in Mc Lean, VA
A rural interior scene by Austrian artist Edmund Adler. The scene is typical of Adler's paintings of Austrian culture and rural life. It is full of gemütlichkeit.
Category
1930s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Paris depuis l’Hotel de Ville
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & acrylic onto canvas
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in hi...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lady at Dressing Table - Original Painting
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
"Lady at dressing table"
Oil on canvas signed and dated right below 1929
Old original frame gild with leaves
Dim canvas : 72 x 56 cm
Dim frame : 92 X 80 cm
ENJOLRAS Delphin (1857-...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Lady With Hat
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
WATELET, Charles Joseph (1867 - 1954)
Portrait of a Lady with Hat
Oil on oval canvas signed up right and dated 1909
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canv...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Provencale No. 6
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & acrylic on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
1990s Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Le pont de Saint Gérmain de Couilly (sur le Grand Morin)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1879 (no. 647)
Category
1870s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Il Fait Beau Là-Bas ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cute Koala Bear Australia, Photorealism
By John Ruthven
Located in Miami, FL
John Ruthven is recognized as the “20th-century Audubon. In this very detailed and meticulously rendered work the artist depicts a Koala in an iconic and proud pose and a Photoreali...
Category
1970s Academic Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Landscape With Washerwoman
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LEVIGNE Théodore (1848-1912)
Landscape With Washerwoman
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dimensions canvas : 55 X 73 cm
Dimensions frame : 70 X 85 cm
LE...
Category
1880s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Insoutenable Légèreté
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Lady
Located in London, GB
John Westbrooke Chandler
1763- 1807
Oil on canvas
Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm)
Original gilt swept frame
This portrait is marked by its loose brushwork, which creates a...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$19,326
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Provencale No. 11
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & acrylic on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
1990s Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
A Sylvan Toilette -- ca. 1898
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Society of American Artists, New York, 1898
Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1 December 1999-15 January 2000, no. 49
Li...
Category
1890s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wheels of Industry Past and Present, Golden Age of Illustration - Standard Oil
Located in Miami, FL
This Golden Age of Illustration painting juxtaposes modern and ancient industrial practices. Giant eclectic generators from the current ti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Éclaircie
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
GRISAILLE 19th Century - Cherubs Are Playing Music
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GRISAILLE 19th Century (anonymous)
Cherubs asleep
Part of "Rococo Style" made famous by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Oil on canvas Circa 1850
Frame re-gilded
Dim canvas : 50 X 70 c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Amour Celeste
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Provencale No. 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & acrylic on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing...
Category
1990s Academic Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - It's a Good Weather ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Joli Moi de Mai
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Chateau de Foix
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & ink on paper + white frame
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...
Category
1990s Academic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Barfleur
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & Indian ink on canvas
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he consta...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, India Ink
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Terre qui Saigne ?
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Au Feu!
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Droit au Coeur
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Noblesse Oblige
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibi...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Versailles
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - La Cathédrale Engloutie
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Sky is the Limit
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
A French 19th-20th Century Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand Player Smoking Pipe"
Located in LA, CA
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker hand of cards. Within a carve...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Humeur Brouillonne
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the Unite...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Les Créatures de Promethée
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork located in Los Angeles, USA.
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in th...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - L'Espoir en Rose
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Colleville sur Mer en Hiver
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Avant l'Orage
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Franck Bailleul - Mais où se cache le Soleil ?!
Located in Paris, IDF
Franck Bailleul is a French painter born in 1964 who lives & works in Abbeville, Normandy, France.
He has exhibited nationally as well as in the United States and China. His works e...
Category
2010s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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