>>19174629There were two schools back in 1971 that did that;
The Acadamia dello Bello Artistica in Venice and the Royal Academy in Madrid.
The students mostly go to work at a European edition of Vogue making advertisements.
I was a hyper realist painter; my last painting sold after 2 hours of exhibition for $49,000.00. I wanted to be like the Canadian artist Jack Chambers. There's an American that fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft Richard Davis who had the same idea. He has somehow survived in his career.
https://ocanadablog.com/2015/01/18/artist-appreciation-richard-thomas-davis/There are no more galleries. There is no more upper middle class with cash to spend on art.
The best gallery I had closed it's doors in 1983. The owners said that there's only two cities in the world that can support high end galleries now; London England and New York City though there is Art Basle and Art Basle Miami too but those are temporary art fairs for the highest of high end customers.
https://www.basel.com/fr/manifestations/art-basel 