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The Société des Artistes Français is the association of French painters and sculptors established in 1881. Its annual exhibition is called the Salon.

When the Société was established, it associated all the French artists. Its president was a painter and its vice-president a sculptor. The first president was William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a France Academic art. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classicism subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body....
. The main task of the Société was to organize the Salon, since the French government ceased to do it.

ecember 1890 president Bouguereau suggested that the Salon should be an exhibition of young, yet unrecognized, artists.






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The Société des Artistes Français is the association of French painters and sculptors established in 1881. Its annual exhibition is called the Salon.

When the Société was established, it associated all the French artists. Its president was a painter and its vice-president a sculptor. The first president was William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a France Academic art. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classicism subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body....
. The main task of the Société was to organize the Salon, since the French government ceased to do it.

Secession

In December 1890 president Bouguereau suggested that the Salon should be an exhibition of young, yet unrecognized, artists. Ernest Meissonier, Puvis de Chavannes, Auguste Rodin and others rejected this proposal and left the organization. They quickly created their own exhibition (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1899) that was also named the Salon, officially Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts, in short Salon du Champs de Mars. The original Salon was sometimes called Salon de Champs-Élysées, or simply Salon des artistes français).

President Bouguereau resigned and was succeeded by Édouard Detaille
Édouard Detaille

Jean Baptiste ?douard Detaille , was a France Academic Painting and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail.Detaille was a student of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier....
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See also

  • Salon
  • Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts


External links

  • (official website)