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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

  • 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:

Current members:

Section Seat Member Date
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 Vacant 2021
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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