Dienstag, 7. November 2006
Salon-malerei (III)
rabe489, 11:09h
Der Fall der Salonkunst gegen die sich vorgeblich die Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts richtete, ist doch etwas vielschichter, als man annimmt. Salonkunst trug auch wesentlich die Entwicklung der Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie einfach als "bürgerlich" abzutun greift eigentlich nicht, wenn man nicht den Klassenkampf predigt.
"The word "Salon" on virtually every page of the vast bibliography devoted to painting and sculpture in nineteenth-century France. In the first half of the century, the Salon was the annual arena in which the period's greatest (!) painters fought for pre-eminence before a vast, opinionated audience. During these years, this governmentsponsored exhibition was the setting for reowned battles between Théodore Géricault and the classicist students of Jacques Louis David; between J. A. D. Ingres and Eugène Delacroix; and between the conventions of the French Academy of Fine Arts and Gustave Courbet's realism, Edouard Manet's bold innovations, and the "New Painting" championed by the Impressionists.Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800 - 1900, The Art Institute of Chicago and Abrams New York 1987, 3
At mid-century, Courbet, wanting to present his work to the public on his own terms, begin to think of alternatives to the Salon and even rented temporary exhibition halls. In the century's last decades, with the Impressionists in establishment, "the enemy", and most advanced artists, including Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, and Alfred Sisley, defiantly refused to send their work to these great state-sponsored art fairs. By the century's end, when Post-Impressionists Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Edouard Vuillard werde exploring color Thweory and unorthodox subjects and styles, the Salon had become virtually irrelevant (?!).
A definition of the Salon is complex and elusive. As its simplest level, the Salon was a state-sponsored exhibition of contemporary art in all major media - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, and architecture - chosen by a jury of artists, which was selected in a manner approved of by the government..."
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by rabe489 (Fr, 26. Okt, 16:45)
