Salon d'Automne

Salon d'Automne

▪ French art exhibition
FrenchAutumn Salon

      exhibition of the works of young artists held every fall in Paris since 1903.

      The Salon d'Automne was established as an alternative to the conservative official Salon. It was also an alternative to the Salon des Indépendants, which was liberal but had a juryless policy that often led to mediocrity. The founders of the Salon d'Automne were a group of artists and poets that included Eugène Carrière (Carrière, Eugène), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Renoir, Pierre-Auguste), Georges Rouault, Édouard Vuillard (Vuillard, Édouard), Joris-Karl Huysmans (Huysmans, Joris-Karl), and Émile Verhaeren (Verhaeren, Émile), under the leadership of the architect Frantz Jourdain. They decided to form their own organization with the aims of welcoming any artist who wished to join, selecting a jury for exhibitions by drawing straws from the new group's membership, and giving the decorative arts the same respect accorded the fine arts.

      The first Salon d'Automne was held on October 31, 1903, at the Petit-Palais. The organizers chose autumn as the time of year for their shows because most other exhibits in Paris took place in the spring and summer. The venue was a significant force in the development of modern art in Europe. Early salons included retrospective exhibits of Post-Impressionist (Post-Impressionism) painters Paul Gauguin (Gauguin, Paul) (1903 and 1906) and Paul Cézanne (Cézanne, Paul) (1907); these shows helped establish their respective reputations and also proved to be events that influenced the careers of many artists. The best-known exhibit was that of 1905, when the painter Henri Matisse (Matisse, Henri) and his colleagues were dubbed Fauves (Fauvism) (“Wild Beasts”) because of their uninhibited use of pure, nonnaturalistic colours.

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