Академичният художник
The Academic Painter

Summary/Abstract: During the last two decades in the social-historical characteristics of art studies special attention is dedicated to two types of artists: the court artists and artists associated with an exhibition hall . But such a typology would be incomplete if the academic type of artist is not mentioned. This artist socio-historically should be positioned in a different way in comparison with the two already mentioned characteristic groups of artists. If they are to be defined according to their income sources and field of expression then the academic type of artist should be defined according to the type of education he has received . This is true because, on one hand the academic artist shaped his profile by marking a line between him and the amateurs and dilettantes . While on the other – the academic artist is different from the artist-craftsman, which worked among the craftsmen of the Middle Ages and the early period of Modern times. The academic artist as a type, besides everything else, is of as great an importance for the social- historical meaning of art as the court or ‘exhibition’ artist . Because, as a rule, it is he that educated them in the age of Modernity and this explains his great importance for the development of art . Аt close look the term ‘academic artist’ has two, different in size, but concentric circles of validity, because in the wide sense of the word one can included all artists, that have received academic education, while the narrow meaning might be the professors, that teach at the academies and in this sense they are academic painters .

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