Thursday, January 14, 2010

Which French Realist was it that set up his own exhibition because the Salon rejected him?

I know this is probably a really easy question but I can't remember who it was! Courbet?


Also if you know what the name of this exhibition was or anything, feel free to inform me!Which French Realist was it that set up his own exhibition because the Salon rejected him?
Courbet, but he wasn't rejected by the Salon. it was hanging committee for the exhibition at the Exposition Universelle of 1855 that rejected a few paintings.





From;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Cou鈥?/a>


';In 1855, Courbet submitted fourteen paintings for exhibition at the Exposition Universelle. Three were rejected for lack of space, including A Burial at Ornans and his other monumental canvas The Artist's Studio. Refusing to be denied, Courbet took matters into his own hands: he displayed forty of his paintings, including The Artist's Studio, in his own adjacent gallery called The Pavillion of Realism, which was a temporary structure he erected next door to the official Salon like Exposition Universelle. Although artists like Eug猫ne Delacroix were ardent champions of his effort, the public came mostly out of curiosity and to deride him. Attendance and sales were disappointing, but Courbet's status as a hero to the French avant-garde became assured.';





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_鈥?/a>Which French Realist was it that set up his own exhibition because the Salon rejected him?
It was Courbet.

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