Salon des Refusés
Salon des Refusés proper noun: an exhibition held in Paris from 1863 to 1886, showing works that had been rejected by the Académie des Beaux-Arts when submitted for display at the Paris Salon.
Proper noun
Salon des Refusés
- An exhibition held in Paris from 1863 to 1886, showing works that had been rejected by the Académie des Beaux-Arts when submitted for display at the Paris Salon.
Noun
Salon des Refusés (plural Salons des Refusés)
- A gallery for outsider art or art rejected from mainstream galleries.
- The press reported rumors that a salon des refuses was in the works.1985, Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art, page 69
- By the time American photographic pictorialists became interested in organizing their first salon, European painters and sculptors had been organizing salons des refuses in protest against the official salons of Paris for more than forty years.1999, Jay Ruby, The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Photographer, page 84
Forms of Salon des Refusés
| Proper noun | |
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| alternative form | salon des refusés |
| alternative form | salon des refuses |
| Noun | |
| plural | Salons des Refusés |
Origin of Salon des Refusés
Borrowed from French Salon des Refusés.
Questions about Salon des Refusés
- What does Salon des Refusés mean?
- Salon des Refusés means an exhibition held in Paris from 1863 to 1886, showing works that had been rejected by the Académie des Beaux-Arts when submitted for display at the Paris Salon.
- What part of speech is Salon des Refusés?
- Salon des Refusés can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near Salon des Refusés in the dictionary
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