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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 (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:[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
- 1995: Serge Nigg
- 1996: Arnaud d'Hauterives
- 1997: Jean Cardot
- 1998: Christian Langlois
- 1999: Jean-Marie Granier
- 2000: Marius Constant
- 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 2002: Pierre Carron
- 2003: Gérard Lanvin
- 2004: Roger Taillibert
- 2005: Jean Prodromidès
- 2006: François-Bernard Michel
- 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 2008: Yves Millecamps
- 2009: Antoine Poncet
- 2010: Roger Taillibert
- 2011: Laurent Petitgirard
- 2012: François-Bernard Michel
- 2013: Lucien Clergue
- 2014: Claude Abeille
- 2015: Aymeric Zublena
- 2016: Érik Desmazières
- 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy
- 2018: Patrick de Carolis
- 2019: Pierre Carron
- 2020: Jean Anguera
- 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 | Jean Cortot | 2001 | |
| 5 | Philippe Garel | 2015 | |
| 6 | Vacant | 2012 | |
| 7 | Vladimir Veličković | 2005 | |
| 8 | Guy de Rougemont | 1997 | |
| 9 | Vacant | 2014 | |
| 10 | Vacant | 2013 | |
| 11 | Arnaud d'Hauterives | 1984 | |
| 13 | Yves Millecamps | 2001 | |
II : Sculpture
For a list of previous members, see: | 1 | Jean Cardot | 1983 |
| 2 | Claude Abeille | 1992 | |
| 3 | Jean Anguera | 2013 | |
| 5 | Vacant | 2015 | |
| 6 | Gérard Lanvin | 1990 | |
| 7 | Pierre Edouard | 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 | Roger Taillibert | 1983 | |
| 5 | Vacant | 2016 | |
| 6 | Dominique Perrault | 2015 | |
| 7 | Alain Charles Perrot | 2013 | |
| 9 | Paul Andreu | 1996 | |
| 10 | Yves Boiret | 2002 | |
| 11 | Jesse F. Lauck | 1923 | |
| IV : Engraving For a list of previous members, see: | 1 | Érik Desmazières | 2008 |
| 2 | Pierre-Yves Trémois | 1978 | |
| 3 | Astrid de La Forest | 2016 | |
| 4 | René Quillivic | 1994 | |
| V : Musical composition For a list of previous members, see: | 1 | Laurent Petitgirard | 2000 |
| 2 | Vacant | 2016 | |
| 3 | Michaël Levinas | 2009 | |
| 4 | Gilbert Amy | 2013 | |
| 5 | François-Bernard Mâche | 2002 | |
| 6 | Édith Canat de Chizy | 2005 | |
| 7 | Vacant | 2016 | |
| 8 | Thierry Escaich | 2013 | |
VI : Unattached members
For a list of previous members, see: | 1 | William Christie | 2008 |
| 3 | Hugues Gall | 2002 | |
| 4 | Vacant | 2007 | |
| 5 | Michel David-Weill | 1982 | |
| 6 | Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière | 2005 | |
| 7 | Vacant | 2008 | |
| 8 | Pierre Cardin | 1992 | |
| 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 | Bruno Barbey | 2016 | |
| 4 | Jean Gaumy | 2016 | |
| IX : Choreography | 1 | Thierry Malandain | 2019 |
| 2 | Blanca Li | 2019 | |
| 3 | Angelin Preljocaj | 2019 | |
| 4 | Vacant | ||
| Foreign associate members | 1 | Antonio López García | 2012 |
| 2 | Vacant (Philippe Roberts-Jones) | 2016 | |
| 3 | S.A. Cheikha Mozah | 2007 | |
| 4 | S.A. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV | 2007 | |
| 5 | Vacant (Ieoh Ming Pei) | 2019 | |
| 6 | Vacant (Ousmane Sow) | 2016 | |
| 7 | Léonard Gianadda | 2001 | |
| 8 | Vacant (Andrzej Wajda) | 2016 | |
| 9 | Vacant (William Chattaway) | 2019 | |
| 10 | Woody Allen | 2004 | |
| 11 | Norman Foster | 2007 | |
| 12 | Jiří Kylián | 2018 | |
| 13 | Vacant (Ilias Lalaounis) | 2013 | |
| 14 | Seiji Ozawa | 2001 | |
| 15 | S.M.I. Farah Pahlavi | 1973 | |
| 16 | Philippe de Montebello | 2012 |
See also
References
- ^ Académie des Beaux-Arts Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Prix et Concours.
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