Information: - Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 23 January 1889) was a French painter born in Montpellier, Herault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to "Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat", Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter. - Academic art, or Academicism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Academie des Beaux-Arts, 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 of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 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". - L'art pompier, literally "Fireman Art", is a derisive late-nineteenth-century French term for large "official" academic art paintings of the time, especially historical or allegorical ones. It derives from the helmets with horse-hair tails, worn at the time by French firemen, which are similar to the Attic helmet often worn in such works by allegorical personifications, classical warriors, or Napoleonic cavalry. It also suggests half-puns in French with "Pompein" ("from Pompeii"), and "pompeux" ("pompous"). Pompier art was seen by those who used the term as the epitome of the values of the bourgeoisie, and as insincere and overblown. - The Birth of Venus ( French : Naissance de Venus ) is a painting by the French artist Alexandre Cabanel ( 1823 -- 1889 ) . It was painted in 1863 , and is now in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris . A second and smaller version ( 85 x 135.9 cm ) from ca . 1864 is in Dahesh Museum of Art. A third ( 106 x 182.6 cm ) version dates from 1875 ; it is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City . Shown to great success at the Paris Salon of 1863 , The Birth of Venus was immediately purchased by Napoleon III for his own personal collection . That same year Cabanel was made a professor of the Ecole des Beaux - Arts . Cabanel 's erotic imagery , cloaked in historicism , appealed to the propriety of the higher levels of society . Art historian and curator Robert Rosenblum wrote of Cabanel 's The Birth of Venus that '' This Venus hovers somewhere between an ancient deity and a modern dream '' ; he described '' the ambiguity of her eyes , that seem to be closed but that a close look reveals that she is awake ... A nude who could be asleep or awake is specially formidable for a male viewer '' . Cabanel was a determined opponent of the Impressionists , especially Edouard Manet , although the refusal of the academic establishment to realize the importance of new ideas and sources of inspiration would eventually prove to be the undoing of the Academy . At the Salon of 1863 , The Birth of Venus was one of a multitude of female nudes . Bathed in opalescent colors , Venus shyly looks to the viewer from beneath the crook of her elbow . Two years later , Manet presented his now renowned painting Olympia at the Salon as well . Today both hang in the Musee 'd '' Orsay . Unlike Venus 's ethereal - like palette , Manet painted Olympia with pale , placid skin tone , and darkly outlined the figure . Her only seemingly modest gesture is her placement of her hand over her leg , though it is not out of shyness - one must pay before they can see . James Rubin writes of the two works : '' The Olympia is often compared to Cabanel 's Birth of... - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program. - The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection, located in Manhattan, New York City, originated with Lebanese writer, humanist, and philosopher Saleem Moussa Ashi (19091984), whose pen name was Dr. Dahesh. The core of the museum's holdings consists of Dahesh's collection of more than 2,000 academic paintings, which includes many notable Orientalist paintings. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'the birth of venus ' exhibits the relationship of 'movement'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - academic art - contemporary art - eclecticism - historicism - neoclassicism - portrait painter - romanticism
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academic art