Art School

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or postgraduate programs in these areas. They are distinguished from larger institutions which also may offer majors or degrees in the visual arts, but only as one part of a broad-based range of programs (such as the liberal arts and sciences). France's École des Beaux-Arts is, perhaps, the first model for such organized instruction, breaking with a tradition of master and apprentice instruction when it was formed.