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The Salon des Refusés, French for “exhibition of rejects”, is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon
Paris Salon

The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748?1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the world....
, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863. As early as the 1830’s, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 art galleries had mounted small-scale, private exhibitions of works rejected by the Salon jurors. The clamorous event of 1863 was actually sponsored by the French government.






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The Salon des Refusés, French for “exhibition of rejects”, is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon
Paris Salon

The Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748?1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the world....
, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863. As early as the 1830’s, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 art galleries had mounted small-scale, private exhibitions of works rejected by the Salon jurors. The clamorous event of 1863 was actually sponsored by the French government. In that year, artists protested the Salon jury’s rejection of more than 3,000 works, far more than usual. "Wishing to let the public judge the legitimacy of these complaints," said an official notice, Emperor Napoléon III decreed that the rejected artists could exhibit their works in an annex to the regular Salon. Many critics and the public ridiculed the refusés, which included such now-famous paintings as Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet

?douard Manet , 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French Painting. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from realism to Impressionism....
's Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe)
The Luncheon on the Grass

Le d?jeuner sur l'herbe , originally titled Le Bain , is an oil on canvas painting by ?douard Manet. Painted between 1862 and 1863 it measures 208 by 264.5 centimetres ....
 and James McNeill Whistler's
James McNeill Whistler

'James Abbott McNeill Whistler' was an United States-born, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake"....
 Girl in White. But the critical attention also legitimized the emerging avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 in painting. Encouraged by Manet, the Impressionists successfully exhibited their works outside the Salon beginning in 1874. Subsequent Salons des Refusés were mounted in Paris in 1874, 1875, and 1886, by which time the prestige and influence of the Paris Salon had waned.

Émile Zola incorporated a fictionalized account of the 1863 scandal in his novel L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece) (1886).

Today by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.

Salon des Refusés Atlantique , established by Steven James May in 2001 and based in Halifax, Canada, provides a venue for filmmakers rejected by the Atlantic Film Festival
Atlantic Film Festival

The Atlantic Film Festival is an international film festival held in Halifax Urban Area, Nova Scotia, Canada.Held annually, the ten-day celebration of film and video from Canada's Atlantic Provinces and around the world is committed to screening an inspiring and engaging collection of films and videos from Canada and the world....
 to screen their work.

See also

  • Avant-garde
    Avant-garde

    Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
  • Salon (gathering)
    Salon (gathering)

    A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horace definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ....
  • French art salons and academies
    French art salons and academies

    From the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth century, artistic production in France was controlled by artistic academies which organized official exhibitions called salons....