Academic art
Art shaped by institutional training, juries and hierarchies of subject associated with official academies and salons.
Example
Academic works at Orsay provide the institutional context against which newer movements defined themselves.
Sources: musee-orsay.fr
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Art movements
Realism in art
A nineteenth-century approach that made contemporary people, labour and social life subjects for serious art.
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Impressionism
A late nineteenth-century movement associated with visible brushwork, changing light and subjects drawn from modern...
Art movements
Post-Impressionism
A broad label for artists who developed distinct structural, symbolic or expressive approaches after Impressionism.
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Neoclassicism
An artistic movement that drew on ancient Greek and Roman forms, subjects and ideals of clarity and order.
