Saturday, September 24, 2011

Episode 002: The French Salon



Example of Rococo art

 


Oath of the Horatii by David











This Neoclassic piece is an example of what the French Academy of the Arts looked to as an "ideal" for the images accepted into the Salon.




Lourve
The Salon de Paris moved to the Lourve in 1725.



Luncheon on the Grass by Manet 

Pastoral Symphony by Titian
 Manet's piece was an updated version of Titians. Luncheon on the Grass was displayed in the 1863 Salon des Refuses--the first of this tradition that would give a start to Impressionism.

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