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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
Artist: Henry George Moon
Magnolia Parviflora
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Flora and Sylva Henry G. Moon (1857-1905) London, 1903 Chromolithography. They say that luck is just an opportunity that is taken. It was certainly true for Henry G. Moon whe...
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Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples

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Meconopsis Integrifolia (Lampshade Poppy)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Flora and Sylva Henry G. Moon (1857-1905) London, 1903 Chromolithography. They say that luck is just an opportunity that is taken. It was certainly true for Henry G. Moon whe...
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Paeonia Lutea (Yellow Peony)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Flora and Sylva Henry G. Moon (1857-1905) London, 1903 Chromolithography. They say that luck is just an opportunity that is taken. It was certainly true for Henry G. Moon whe...
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Magnolia Rustica Rubra
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Flora and Sylva Henry G. Moon (1857-1905) London, 1903 Chromolithography. They say that luck is just an opportunity that is taken. It was certainly true for Henry G. Moon whe...
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Single Camellias
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Flora and Sylva Henry G. Moon (1857-1905) London, 1903 Chromolithography. They say that luck is just an opportunity that is taken. It was certainly true for Henry G. Moon whe...
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