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.

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

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 [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 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

• Academic art – Style of painting and sculpture
• A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière – 1887 group tableau portrait by André Brouillet
• Beaux-Arts architecture – Neoclassical architectural style
• École des Beaux-Arts – Influential art schools in France
• French art salons and academies