Salon des Refusés
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The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects", is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to
Edouard Manet Luncheon on the Grass Google Art Project
Whistler James Symphony in White no 1 1862
The Palais de l'Industrie, where the event took place. Photo by Édouard Baldus.
Symphony in White, No. 1, also known as The White Girl, is a painting by James McNeill Whistler. The work shows a woman in full figure standing on a wolf skin in front of a beige curtain with a lily i
Salon des Refusés
…Critics and the public ridiculed the refusés, which included such famous paintings as Édouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe and James McNeill Whistler's Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. The critical attention also legitimized the emerging avant-garde in painting. The Impressionists exhibited their works outside the traditional Salon…
Whistler James Symphony in White no 2 1864
Whistler Symphony in white 3