The Académie des Beaux-Arts (French pronunciation: [akademi de boz‿aʁ]; lit. 'Academy of Fine Arts') is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect.
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:
- Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing
- Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Prize for Music
- Pierre Cardin Prize for Design
- François-Victor Noury Prize
- Fondation Pierre Gianadda Prize
Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.
Presidents
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- 1995: Serge Nigg
- 1996: Arnaud d'Hauterives [fr]
- 1997: Jean Cardot
- 1998: Christian Langlois
- 1999: Jean-Marie Granier [fr]
- 2000: Marius Constant
- 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 2002: Pierre Carron
- 2003: Gérard Lanvin [fr]
- 2004: Roger Taillibert
- 2005: Jean Prodromidès
- 2006: François-Bernard Michel [fr]
- 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer (2nd term)
- 2008: Yves Millecamps [fr]
- 2009: Antoine Poncet [fr]
- 2010: Roger Taillibert (2nd term)
- 2011: Laurent Petitgirard
- 2012: François-Bernard Michel (2nd term)
- 2013: Lucien Clergue
- 2014: Claude Abeille [fr]
- 2015: Aymeric Zublena [fr]
- 2016: Érik Desmazières
- 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy
- 2018: Patrick de Carolis
- 2019: Pierre Carron (2nd term)
- 2020: Jean Anguera [fr]
- 2021 Alain-Charles Perrot
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:
- Section I: Painting
- Section II: Sculpture
- Section III: Architecture
- Section IV: Engraving
- Section V: Musical composition
- Section VI: Unattached (Free) members
- Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields (since 1985)
- Section VIII: Photography (since 2005)
- Section IX: Choreography (since 2018)
Current members:
| Section | Seat | Member | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
I : Painting
For a list of previous members, see: | |||
| 2 | Pierre Carron | 1990 | |
| 4 | Vacant | 2018 | |
| 5 | Philippe Garel | 2015 | |
| 6 | Gérard Garouste | 2017 | |
| 7 | Vacant | 2019 | |
| 8 | Vacant | 2021 | |
| 9 | Fabrice Hyber | 2018 | |
| 10 | Jean-Marc Bustamante | 2016 | |
| 11 | Catherine Meurisse | 2020 | |
| 13 | Yves Millecamps | 2001 | |
II : Sculpture
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Vacant | 2020 |
| 2 | Claude Abeille | 1992 | |
| 3 | Jean Anguera | 2013 | |
| 5 | Jean-Michel Othoniel | 2018 | |
| 6 | Anne Poirier | 2021 | |
| 7 | Pierre-Édouard | 2008 | |
| 8 | Antoine Poncet | 1993 | |
| 9 | Brigitte Terziev | 2007 | |
III : Architecture
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Jacques Rougerie | 2008 |
| 2 | Jean-Michel Wilmotte | 2015 | |
| 3 | Aymeric Zublena | 2008 | |
| 4 | Anne Démians | 2021 | |
| 5 | Marc Barani | 2018 | |
| 6 | Dominique Perrault | 2015 | |
| 7 | Alain Charles Perrot | 2013 | |
| 9 | Pierre-Antoine Gatier | 2019 | |
| 10 | Bernard Desmoulin | 2018 | |
| IV : Engraving
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Érik Desmazières | 2008 |
| 2 | Vacant | 2020 | |
| 3 | Astrid de La Forest | 2016 | |
| 4 | Pierre Collin | 2018 | |
| V : Musical composition
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | Laurent Petitgirard | 2000 |
| 2 | Bruno Mantovani | 2017 | |
| 3 | Michaël Levinas | 2009 | |
| 4 | Gilbert Amy | 2013 | |
| 5 | François-Bernard Mâche | 2002 | |
| 6 | Édith Canat de Chizy | 2005 | |
| 7 | Régis Campo | 2017 | |
| 8 | Thierry Escaich | 2013 | |
VI : Unattached members
For a list of previous members, see: |
1 | William Christie | 2008 |
| 3 | Hugues Gall | 2002 | |
| 4 | Muriel Mayette-Holtz | 2017 | |
| 5 | Michel David-Weill | 1982 | |
| 6 | Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière | 2005 | |
| 7 | Adrien Goetz | 2017 | |
| 8 | Vacant | 2021 | |
| 10 | Henri Loyrette | 1997 | |
| 11 | Patrick de Carolis | 2010 | |
| 13 | François-Bernard Michel | 2000 | |
VII : Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields
For a list of previous members, see: |
2 | Roman Polanski | 1998 |
| 3 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2007 | |
| 4 | Coline Serreau | 2018 | |
| 5 | Jacques Perrin | 2016 | |
| 6 | Régis Wargnier | 2007 | |
| 7 | Frédéric Mitterrand | 2019 | |
VIII : Photography
|
1 | Sebastião Salgado | 2016 |
| 2 | Yann Arthus-Bertrand | 2006 | |
| 3 | Dominique Issermann | 2021 | |
| 4 | Jean Gaumy | 2016 | |
| IX : Choreography | 1 | Thierry Malandain | 2019 |
| 2 | Blanca Li | 2019 | |
| 3 | Angelin Preljocaj | 2019 | |
| 4 | Carolyn Carlson | 2020 | |
| Foreign associate members | 1 | Antonio López García | 2012 |
| 2 | Vacant | 2016 | |
| 3 | Moza bint Nasser | 2007 | |
| 4 | Karim Aga Khan IV | 2007 | |
| 5 | Annie Leibovitz | 2022 | |
| 6 | Giuseppe Penone | 2022 | |
| 7 | Léonard Gianadda | 2001 | |
| 8 | Georg Baselitz | 2019 | |
| 9 | Vacant | 2019 | |
| 10 | Woody Allen | 2004 | |
| 11 | Norman Foster | 2007 | |
| 12 | Jiří Kylián | 2018 | |
| 13 | William Kentridge | 2021 | |
| 14 | Seiji Ozawa | 2001 | |
| 15 | Farah Pahlavi | 1974 | |
| 16 | Philippe de Montebello | 2012 |
See also
References
- Académie des Beaux-Arts. Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Prix et Concours.
External links
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