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Asheville Citizen-Times - Feb 12, 2012
Offerings include: portrait painting open studio, 2-5 pm Mondays; Lorelle Bacon art class, 1-3 pm Tuesdays; morning salon painting session, 9 am-noon Wednesdays; experimental art group, noon-3 pm Thursday; and figure drawing open studio, ...

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A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum

by: Simon Olding, Giles Waterfield, Mark Bills
Published to accompany a major touring exhib ition from January 1999 to September 1999, this book focuses on the collection of Victorian art built up by Merton Russe ll-Cotes and now held in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and M useum, Bournemouth. '
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Reconsidering Gerome

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was an undisputed professional success during his lifetime. Crowds flocked to see his vividly rendered historical and Orientalist compositions, and thanks to the mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale.

From the outset, however, his success met with critical hostility. Émile Zola, champion of Édouard Manet, dismissed Gérôme as a cynical manufacturer of anecdotal images for popular consumption—a critique repeatedly echoed by historians of modern art.
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Artistes Pompiers

by: J. Harding
Until recently the masters of nineteenth-century salon painting have been overshadowed by the Impressionists and other pioneering art movements of the time. This book reassesses their importance in the light of the academic tradition which they inherited and fostered and examines the full scope of their achievements in the following chapters: I. Introduction II. The Olympians and the Historians III. The Academic Treatment of the Modern Life Subject IV. The Orientalists V. Prix de Rome chronology VI.
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French Salon Paintings from Southern Collections: Exhibition

by: Eric Zafran
1983 exhibit at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta contains works from The Salon during the period 1848-1898. 38 pages of text about The Salon. 50 artists are represented in the catalogue.
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Munkàcsy Mihàly

Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900) Munkácsy was an outstanding Hungarian realist painter of the 19th century. He started to paint during the years he spent in Arad as a joiner. With the help of pardons he studied at the Viennese, Munich and Düsseldorf academies. Munkácsy painted his first major work, the outstanding "The Condemned Cell" in Düsseldorf in 1872, then together with his friend László Paál, he moved to Paris, where be lived until the end of his life. Munkácsy painted his genres in the style of realism between 1873 and 1875: "Midnight Ramblers", "Farewell". "Churning Woman", "Woman Carryng Brushwood", and "Pawnshop" were the zenith of his career. He married the widow of Baron de Marches in 1874, and his style changed from that time on. Departing from the typical subjects of realism, be produced colourful salon paintings and still-lifes. This was the period when be also turned to ladscape painting; his growing interest is marked by such great paintings as "Dusty Road". "Corn Field", and "Walking in the Woods". The assimilation of László Paál's style is apparent in the landscapes painted during the 1880s, such as "Avenue" and "The Colpach Park". His realist portraits - eg of Franz Liszt and Cardinal Haynald - were also born around this time, together with his religions paintings, such as "Christ in front of Pilate", "Golgotha" and later, "Ecce homo". Towards the end of his career he painted two monumental works: "Hungarian Conquest" for the House of Parliament and a ...

 

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