Archibald Prize Salon des Refusés
SMART ArtZ Gallery, Melb Vic
The also rans (or those not in with the Sydney clique) from this year's Archibald Prize
Art Exhibition
previously on
in
South Bank
precinct,
Victoria,
Australia.
From
Thursday 18 June 2009 to Saturday 18 July 2009
Published by anonymous on Monday 15 June 2009.
Contact the publisher.
The exhibition follows in the tradition of the French Impressionists of the 1860’s. Manet’s painting Dejeuner sur l’Herbe was rejected by the reactionary French Academy, thus creating the impetus for the inaugural Salon des Refuses in 1864 – a break-away exhibition which also featured works by Cezanne, Pissarro and Whistler. Interestingly, these painters all went on to fame, whereas the painters selected by the Salon proper, and the judges, have all been lost to history.
Location
Alfred Place, South Melbourne
