Concept
The Académie des Beaux-Arts (akademi de boz‿aʁ, 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 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). Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including five dedicated prizes: 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. 1995: Serge Nigg 1996: Arnaud d'Hauterives 1997: Jean Cardot 1998: Christian Langlois 1999: Jean-Marie Granier 2000: Marius Constant 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer 2002: Pierre Carron 2003: Gérard Lanvin 2004: Roger Taillibert 2005: Jean Prodromidès 2006: François-Bernard Michel 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer (2nd term) 2008: Yves Millecamps 2009: Antoine Poncet 2010: Roger Taillibert (2nd term) 2011: Laurent Petitgirard 2012: François-Bernard Michel (2nd term) 2013: Lucien Clergue 2014: Claude Abeille 2015: Aymeric Zublena 2016: Érik Desmazières 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy 2018: Patrick de Carolis 2019: Pierre Carron (2nd term) 2020: Jean Anguera 2021 Alain-Charles Perrot 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: Artist
