Academic Color Photography
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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Early 20th Century Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
1980s Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Early 20th Century Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
1990s Academic Color Photography
C Print
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
1960s Academic Color Photography
C Print
2010s Academic Color Photography
C Print, Color
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
Giclée, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital
1930s Academic Color Photography
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
1990s Academic Color Photography
C Print
Early 2000s Academic Color Photography
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Digital, Ar...
2010s Academic Color Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment
2010s Academic Color Photography
C Print
1990s Academic Color Photography
Photogravure
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Color Photography
C Print
1990s Academic Color Photography
C Print