_Arts

Abbott Handerson Thayer Born: August 12, 1849, Boston, Massachusetts Died: May 29, 1921 (aged 71) Nationality: American Field: Painting Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as shown by the fact that his paintings are in the most important U.S. art collections. In the last third of his life, he worked together with his son, Gerald Handerson Thayer, on a major book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s Disclosures. First published by Macmillan in 1909, then reissued in 1918, it had a widespread impact on the use of military camouflage during World War I. He also influenced American art through his efforts as a teacher, taking on apprentices in his Ne...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he created an idealized world, his almost photo-realistic style was popular with rich art patrons. He was very famous in his time but today his subject matter and technique receive relatively little attention compared to the popularity of the Impressionists. Life and career William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. He seemed destined to join the family business but for the intervention of his uncle Eugène, a Roman Catholic priest, who taught him classical and Biblical subjects, and arranged for Bouguereau to go to high school. Bouguereau sh...

Frederick Leighton Born 3 December 1830, Scarborough, England Died 25 January 1896 (aged 65), London, England Nationality English Field painting and sculpture Training Eduard Von Steinle Movement Academicism, Victorian Classicism Works Flaming June Influenced Frank Bernard Dicksee Awards Prix de Rome, Légion d'honneur Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA (3 December 1830–25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt, between 1886 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage became extinct. Biography Leighton was born in Scarborough to a family in the import and export business. He was educated at University College School, London. He then received his artistic training on the European continent, first from Eduard Von Steinle and then from Giovanni Costa. When in Florence, aged 24,...

A Virgin (1892-1893) A Virgin (1892-1893), Depicts the artist's daughter and sons Abbott Handerson Thayer, (American, 1849-1921) Oil on canvas H: 229.7 W: 182.5 cm United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thayer_-_A_Virgin.jpg

Alexandre Cabanel - Eve After the Fall Date: before 1889

Alexandre Cabanel Born: 28 September 1823, Montpellier, France Died: 23 January 1889 (aged 65) Nationality: French Field: Painting Training: François-Édouard Picot Movement: Academicism Works: Birth of Venus Awards: Prix de Rome Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. Cabanel studied with François-Édouard Picot and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of twenty two. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in the sam...

The Birth of Venus (Alexandre, 1863) Alexandre Cabanel, The Birth of Venus (1863), oil on canvas, 130 x 225 cm. Paris, Musée d'Orsay Español: El nacimiento de Venus (1863). Artist: Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1863_Alexandre_Cabanel_-_The_Birth_of_Venus.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_art

Academic art Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux-arts, which 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, Suzor-Coté, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism". The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called "academic art". In this context as new styles are embraced by academics, the new styles come to be considered academic, thus what was at one time a rebe...