Salon des Refuses
Salon des Refuses - an art exhibition held in Paris in 1863, set up by the government at the urging of the artists involved, as an exhibition of paintings that had been refused by the official annual Salon of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. The show's major sensations were two paintings by Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883), each considered scandalous — Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe), for portraying nude and clothed figures together in a scene of everyday life, and Olympia, for portraying a nude prostitute, whose form was not typical of those considered ideal. Other exhibitors were Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), and James A. M. Whistler (American, 1834-1903).
