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Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Edgar Degas
Gustave Caillebotte
Mary Cassatt
Camille Pissarro
Berthe Morisot
Alfred Sisley
Salon/Salon des Refusés | The Paris Salon was an annual exhibition sponsored by the French government that showed the best academic art. The works had to adhere to accepted conventions, styles, and motifs. In 1863, the works that were rejected from the Salon were showcased in the "Exhibition of Rejects," or Salon des Refusés, and had a great impact on the emergence of the Impressionists.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs and Satyr, 1873, oil on canvas, 100 x 71 in., Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1862, oil on canvas, 6.10 x 8.8 in., Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Salon/Salon des Refusés | The Paris Salon was an annual exhibition sponsored by the French government that showed the best academic art. The works had to adhere to accepted conventions, styles, and motifs. In 1863, the works that were rejected from the Salon were showcased in the "Exhibition of Rejects," or Salon des Refusés, and had a great impact on the emergence of the Impressionists.
Salon
Traditional subjects
Conventional style
Ideal beauty
Salon des Refusés
Contemporary subjects
Experimental styles
Real human condition
Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Isabel II de España, 1850, oil on canvas, 87.7 x 57.4 in.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1861-62, oil on canvas, 84.5 in × 42.5 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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