Salon des Indépendants

Salon des Indépendants
Annual unjuried exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, held in Paris since 1884.

Organized as a second Salon des Refusés, it was established in response to the rigid traditionalism of the official government-sponsored Salon. Its first show exhibited works by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. By 1905 Henri Rousseau, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and the Fauves had all exhibited there.

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▪ French art
      annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, held in Paris since 1884. In the course of revolutionary developments in painting in late 19th-century France, both artists and the public became increasingly unhappy with the rigid and exclusive policies of the official Salon, an exhibition held sporadically between 1667 and 1737 and annually thereafter by the Académie Royale de Peinture, which had maintained almost total control over the teaching and exhibition of art since about 1661. In 1863 the Salon des Refusés was held for innovative artists whose works had been rejected by the official Salon. In 1880 the Salon rejected the work of many Impressionist (Impressionism) and Post-Impressionist (Post-Impressionism) painters; consequently, in 1883 the Impressionists organized a second Salon des Refusés. By 1884 the Société des Artistes Indépendants had been founded, to hold unjuried exhibitions, which would accept the work of any artist who wished to participate. The group's first show, held in the pavilion of the city of Paris, included paintings by Odilon Redon, Henri-Édmond Cross, Paul Signac, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, whose Bathers at Asnières (1883–84) had been refused by the official Salon that same year. By 1905 Henri Rousseau, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, and the Fauves had all exhibited at this annual show.

      The Salon des Indépendants (held since 1950 at the Grand Palais in Paris) had about 3,000 members at the turn of the 21st century. Many have received international acclaim for their role in avant-garde art movements. The Salon des Indépendants is now only one of many outlets for new art in Paris, along with the Salon d'Automne, Salon de Mai, Salon de la Jeune Peinture, and Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, among others.

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