Brazilian academic art

Brazilian academic art was the institutionalized expression of the entire art system that prevailed in Brazil from the early 19th century until the early 20th century, based on the principles of European art academies. It originated with the Royal School of Sciences, Arts and Crafts founded by John VI in 1816, encouraged by the French Artistic Mission, flourished under the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and the patronage of Dom Pedro II, and concluded with the incorporation of its republican successor, the National School of Fine Arts, into the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1931. Academicism, in its strictest sense, refers to a structured artistic training program at the post-secondary level, comparable to contemporary university education. In Brazil, this system was introduced during the period of Neoclassicism, a style it significantly helped to disseminate, and later absorbed Romantic, Realist, Symbolist, and other aesthetics that characterized the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, while filtering out elements that did not align with the Academy’s formality. The close connection between Brazilian academic art and the established power broadened the term’s meaning, making national Academicism not only a teaching system but also a philosophical movement and a political act.¶

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Brazilian academic art is art movement in Brazil, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

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