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unusual facts about Academic art



Ajanta Caves

According to one writer, unlike the paintings created by her predecessors Griffiths and Gill, whose copies were influenced by British Victorian styles of painting, those of the Herringham expedition preferred an 'Indian Renascence' aesthetic of the type pioneered by Abanindranath Tagore.

The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy

However, it has become somewhat controversial, both for its unabashedly academic style, inspired both by Jacques-Louis David and William Bouguereau, and for its highly symbolic content, said to express the cycle of denial and tragedy.

Théodore Baron

In 1868 Baron became one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, formed to react against the Belgian version of academicism and to advance Realist painting and artistic freedom.


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Fernand Lungren

Disappointed with the academic art that he observed, Lungren left his Paris studies and traveled to the town of Barbizon, South East of Paris, near Fontainebleau, and to the village of Grez-sur-Loing, where he became acquainted with artists who were practicing plein-air (outdoor) painting.