Académie des Beaux-Arts

French learned society based in Paris

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

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

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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

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Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including five dedicated prizes:[1]

* 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

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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

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I : Painting

* The number of seats in this section was reduced from 14 to 12 on 23 August 1967.
* As a consequence, the #3 and #14 seats were eliminated.
* Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 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".

2 | Pierre Carron | 1990
4 | Vacant | 2018
5 | Philippe Garel | 2015
6 | Gérard Garouste | 2017
7 | Vacant | 2019
8 | Tania Mouraud | 2024
9 | Fabrice Hyber | 2018
10 | Jean-Marc Bustamante | 2016
11 | Catherine Meurisse | 2020
13 | Yves Millecamps | 2001
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"

| 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

* Seat #8 was transferred to section VII in 1985.

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

| 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:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Engraving"

| 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:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Music"

| 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

* 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"

| 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

* Seat #1 was transferred to section V in 1998.

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

| 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

* Seat #1 was previously occupied by Lucien Clergue (1934-2014)
* Seats #3 and #4 were established in 2016

| 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

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* Beaux-Arts architecture
* École des Beaux-Arts
* Academic art
* French art salons and academies

## References

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

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Académie des beaux-arts (France).

Wikisource has the text of a 1905 New International Encyclopedia article about "Académie des Beaux-Arts".

* Official website
* Institut de France website

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