Abstract
Key definitions
 Academic art (academism) – style in painting, sculpture, graphic and other visual arts connected with activities of European academies of fine arts in 19 th century. The main centres were Paris, London. Rome, Madrid, Munich, Vienna and Petersburg. Classical themes and techniques, apparently conservative, but opening way to the modern artistic style.
 Orientalism in visual arts - style in European painting, sculpture, graphic and architecture inspired by oriental cultures, visible from the end of Eighteenth and all Nineteenth centuries.
 Persons (painters)
 
 Lawrence Alma Tadema (1836-1912)
 Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
 Edwin Long (1829-1891)
 Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902)
 Paul / Paweł Merwart (1855-1902)
 Ludwik Wiesiołowski (1854-1892)
 
 Focus on:
 
 Oriental artefact as detail
 Oriental story as personality
Highlights
The end of Eighteenth and all Nineteenth centuries brought new inspirations derived from Orient, appearing in visual arts in orientalism
Its origin is combined with the political and economical expansion of the European states in the East. This expansion was accompanied by discovering new oriental ideas, originality, mystery, freedom and what is important for painters - new landscapes
Visualised works of arts from archaeological excavations, publications or records of travellers are good contribution to rediscovering known objects and to read them in new contexts
Summary
The end of Eighteenth and all Nineteenth centuries brought new inspirations derived from Orient, appearing in visual arts in orientalism. Grzegorz First Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Kraków
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