Academicism (Academic) Oil Painting | Hand-painted Academicism Paintings Art Reproduction

Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities.

Specifically, Academicism oil painting art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Academic oil paintings, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings sale of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Suzor-Coté, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism".

The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called "academic art". In this context as new styles are embraced by academics, the new styles come to be considered Academicism painting, thus what was at one time a rebellion against academic art becomes academic art.