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Academic Art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies where artists received their training, sepcifically the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Academie des beaux-arts. Development during this period included adopting historical styles in order to show the era in history that the painting depicted (historicism), and attempts to synthesize the line of Neoclassicism with the color of Romanticism.   continue on wikipedia »