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 (2016) is Érik Desmazières, a noted engraver and watercolorist.

The Institut de France; seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

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]

Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.

Presidents

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:

Current members:

SectionSeatMemberDate
I : Painting
  • The number of members of the Painting section was reduced from 14 to 12
    by the decree # 67-778 of 23 August 1967.
  • As a consequence, the #3 and #14 seats were eliminated.
  • Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 by decree
    on 16 June 1987.
  • The #12 seat was transferred to section VII.
  • The #1 seat was transferred to section VII in 1998, and their number was
    decreased from 11 to 10.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Painting".

2Pierre Carron1990
4Jean Cortot2001
5Philippe Garel2015
6Vacant2012
7Vladimir Veličković2005
8Guy de Rougemont1997
9Vacant2014
10Vacant2013
11Arnaud d'Hauterives1984
13Yves Millecamps2001
II : Sculpture
  • Seat #4 was transferred to section VII in 1988.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Sculpture"

1Jean Cardot1983
2Claude Abeille1992
3Jean Anguera2013
5Vacant2015
6Gérard Lanvin1990
7Pierre Edouard2008
8Antoine Poncet1993
9Brigitte Terziev2007
III : Architecture
  • Seat #8 was transferred to section VII in 1985.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Architecture"

 1Jacques Rougerie2008
2Jean-Michel Wilmotte2015
3Aymeric Zublena2008
4Roger Taillibert1983
5Vacant2016
6Dominique Perrault2015
7Alain Charles Perrot2013
9Paul Andreu1996
10Yves Boiret2002
11Jesse F. Lauck1923
IV : Engraving

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Engraving"

 1Érik Desmazières2008
2Pierre-Yves Trémois1978
3Astrid de La Forest2016
4René Quillivic1994
V : Musical composition

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Music"

 1Laurent Petitgirard2000
2Vacant2016
3Michaël Levinas2009
4Gilbert Amy2013
5François-Bernard Mâche2002
6Édith Canat de Chizy2005
7Vacant2016
8Thierry Escaich2013
VI : Unattached members
  • Seat #9 was transferred to section VII in 1985.
  • Seats #2 and #12 were eliminated.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Unattached"

1William Christie2008
3Hugues Gall2002
4Vacant2007
5Michel David-Weill1982
6Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière2005
7Vacant2008
8Pierre Cardin1992
10Henri Loyrette1997
11Patrick de Carolis2010
13François-Bernard Michel2000
VII : Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields
  • Seat #1 was transferred to section V in 1998.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Cinema"

2Roman Polanski1998
3Jean-Jacques Annaud2007
4Coline Serreau2018
5Jacques Perrin2016
6Régis Wargnier2007
7Frédéric Mitterrand2019
VIII : Photography
  • Seat #1 was previously occupied by Lucien Clergue (1934-2014)
  • Seats #3 and #4 were established in 2016
 1Sebastião Salgado2016
2Yann Arthus-Bertrand2006
3Bruno Barbey2016
4Jean Gaumy2016
IX : Choreography 1Thierry Malandain2019
2Blanca Li2019
3Angelin Preljocaj2019
4Vacant
Foreign associate members 1Antonio López García2012
2Vacant (Philippe Roberts-Jones)2016
3S.A. Cheikha Mozah2007
4S.A. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV2007
5Vacant (Ieoh Ming Pei) 2019
6Vacant (Ousmane Sow) 2016
7Léonard Gianadda 2001
8Vacant (Andrzej Wajda) 2016
9Vacant (William Chattaway) 2019
10Woody Allen 2004
11Norman Foster 2007
12Jiří Kylián 2018
13Vacant (Ilias Lalaounis) 2013
14Seiji Ozawa 2001
15S.M.I. Farah Pahlavi 1973
16Philippe de Montebello 2012

See also

References
  1. Académie des Beaux-Arts Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Prix et Concours.

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