Beaux-Arts Architecture

Examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture in the following topics:

• Academic Architecture

  • Beaux-Arts architecture expressed the academic neoclassical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  • Beaux-Arts architecture expresses the academic neoclassical architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  • "Beaux Arts" describes the architectural style of over two centuries of instruction under academic authority: first, of the Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
  • The style of instruction that produced Beaux-Arts architecture continued without major interruption until 1968.
  • The Beaux-Arts style had widespread influence outside of France, including on the architecture of the United States in the period from 1880-1920.

• Identity

  • In 1817, Sir John Soane established the architectural form of the art gallery with his design for the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
  • In the middle and late 20th century earlier architectural styles employed for art museums (such as the Beaux-Arts style of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City or the Gothic and Renaissance Revival architecture of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum) were increasingly replaced with more modern styles, such as Deconstructivism.
  • Various forms of 20th century art, such as land art and performance art, also usually exist outside a gallery.
  • A limited number of such sites have independent importance in the art world.
  • Bridgeman Art Library serves as a central source of reproductions of artwork, with access limited to museums, art dealers and other professionals or professional organizations.

• Environmental Context of Architecture

• German Expressionism

  • The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including painting, literature, theatre, dance, film, architecture, and music.
  • Der Blaue Reiter as a group believed in the promotion of modern art, the connection between visual art and music, the spiritual and symbolic associations of color, and a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting.
  • Members were interested in European medieval art and primitivism, as well as the contemporary, non-figurative art scene in France.
  • As a result of their encounters with cubist, fauvist and Rayonist ideas, they moved towards abstract art.
  • Modersohn-Becker studied briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was influenced by French post impressionists Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

• Temple Architecture and the Greek Orders

• Architecture and the Corinthian Order

• Architecture

  • Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style that was produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-eighteenth century.
  • The Directoire style reflected the Revolutionary belief in the values of republican Rome: "The stoic virtues of Republican Rome were upheld as standards not merely for the arts but also for political behaviour and private morality...
  • Intellectually, Neoclassicism was symptomatic of a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome.
  • The movement was also inspired by a more vague perception ("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts and, to a lesser extent, sixteenth-century Renaissance Classicism, which was also a source for academic Late Baroque architecture.
  • French Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the nineteenth century and beyond— a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals.

• Academic Painting and Sculpture

  • Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art.
  • Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art, more specifically, it is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
  • The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was founded in France in 1648, and later became the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
  • The academic art world also idolized Raphael for the ideality of his work.
  • Academic Art exhibitions were held often.

• European Expressionist Architecture

  • Expressionist architecture was a European movement of the twentieth century that came about in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
  • Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the twentieth century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts.
  • Draws as much from Moorish, Islamic, Egyptian, and Indian art and architecture as from Roman or Greek
  • Form also played a defining role in setting apart expressionist architecture from its immediate predecessor, art nouveau, or Jugendstil.
  • While art nouveau had an organic freedom with ornament, expressionist architecture strove to free the form of the whole building instead of just its parts.

• American Art Deco Architecture

  • Art Deco and Streamline Moderne were two key styles of early 20th century American architecture.
  • Modern American architecture is usually divided into the two styles of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne.
  • Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.
  • The urban United States has many examples of Art Deco architecture, especially in New York, Chicago, and Detroit.
  • Distinguish between Art Deco and Streamline Moderne in American architecture in the first half of the 20th century