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- - - - concurrently, it was at the Salon of 1866 that the diverse histories of Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, the group that became know as the impressionists began to converge
      - Manet
        
        exhited in three previous Salons, but was beginning to establish himself as a painter of note.
      - Berthe Morisot
        
        submitted two small landscapes, Thatched Cottage in Normandy and
        La Bermondsey
      - Reonir
        
        a small sketch done at Marlotte and a larger work that is thought to have dpicted two female figures in a landscape, one dressed in the fashions of the period and one nude a la Courblet
        
        Renoir decided to join Monet in establishing an independent artist’s society. The Impressionists, as they were called, sought to capture modern life, and Renoir’s works from this period focused on everyday people, streets, and surroundings (61.101.14; 1974.356.34). His most iconic painting from this period, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, RF2739), explores dappled light as it flutters over young Montmartre revelers flirting, drinking, and dancing.
      - Monet
        
        He planned to submit a work entitled Luncheon on the Grass, influenced by Manet's painting at the salon des refuses in 1863 and depicting a group of fashionably dressed, contemporary figures gathered at a picnic in the open air. The work would have been enormous. thus, he gave up the attempt before the work was done. and send a landscape and a figural work: The Forest of Fontainebleau and a large painting entitled Camile
      - Degas
        
        he submitted two works to the Salon, a still life of fish and a large figure painting, now lost, entitled Young Girl at the Piano
      - impressionists unconventional works were difficult to sell.
        
        Manet, Morisot, and Caillebotte were wealthy enough not to rely on earning an income from their work and supported their friends with loans and purchases.
      - The eight exhibitions organized by the Impressionists hardly challenged the sheer size/authority of the Salons and reflected the increasing fragmentation and diversity of the contemporary art world. Monet, Renoir, Degas, et al. were frustrated with Salon juries frequently rejecting their works and hence established their own much smaller venues. Above is the catalog cover of the first exhibition with around 150 works and below is a poster for the last show with close to 250.
    - - Manet
        
        Ironically, both The Fifer and The Tragic Actor seem more conventional than his submissions of previous years
        
        sexuality in the case of Olympia (Salon in 1865), religion in the case of Angels at the Tomb of Christ (Salon of 1864) and Jesus Mocked (Salon of 1865)
        
        instead of , Courbet get enormous popularity
        
        real reason of criticism to him
        
        The Luncheon on the Grass
        
        critics in mood in painting: the most scandalous aspect of the painting was the "Immorality" of Manet: a suburban picnic featuring two fully dressed bourgeois gentleman. a naked woman to the front left and another scantily dressed woman in the background
        
        critics in sexuality: Manet's audiences assumed that women were prostitutes and the men their customers. equally, shocking were its references to important works of art of the past which academie des beaux-Arts artists were expected to make, combinated with its crude unvarnished modernity.
        
        shark lightning of his nude, the cool colors, the flats, cutout quality of his figures who seem as if they are set against a painted backdrop, all suggest the seamier side of city life. presenting this under a flimsy guise of academic art underlined Manet's subversiveness.
        
        Olympia
        
        based on a Venetian Renaissance source, Titan's Venus of Urbino
        
        intended: counterpart the very antithesis of Titian's.
        
        Titan: curvaceous, soft rounded
        Manet: angular, flattened
        Titan: warm and rich
        Manet: cold, harsh
        Titan: the sleeping dog onto bed
        Manet: the cat onto bed
        
        conservative critics vilified Olympia when it was exhibited at the salon of 1865
        
        however, in the future, it evaluated Manet overturns the entire tradition of the accommodating female nude.
        
        Manet review that 'Abuses rain on me like hail'
        
        L'llustration, a cartoonist, 1965, "ugliness"
      - Cezzane
        
        small work accepted but a major painting turned down with Manet.
    - - Monet
        
        Forest of Fontainebleau and Camile were accepted and rarely noted in this respect.
- - - - Eventually, artists began organizing their own shows and, in 1881, the French goverment withdrew its support of the Salon. it was taken over by the Societe des artistes Francais, which still organizes it today. Today the Paris Salon is just on of many annual art shows and salons-including the Salon des independants, the Autumn Salon, and the May Salon-and no longer holds the power it once held over French artists' careers