Tag Archives: French Salon Art

the undraped: Of anecdotal interest

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Dave

There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading →

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moments of pathos

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

Abstract aesthetic values were way beyond the public who purchased Salon art which finally died out at the beginning of the twentieth-century, Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon being the coup de grace. But before, a long run of the French salon, and … Continue reading →