Salon of 1865

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The Salon of 1865 was a pivotal Paris art exhibition remembered for debuting Édouard Manet’s controversial works and intensifying the clash between academic tradition and emerging modernist painting.

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instanceOf Paris Salon
art exhibition
artisticContext dominance of academic classicism
rise of realist and proto-impressionist tendencies
audience artists, critics, collectors, and the Parisian public
controversy challenge to traditional standards of finish and idealization
debate over propriety and morality in art
hostile critical reaction to Manet’s Olympia
country France
criticalReception largely negative toward Manet’s works
supportive toward academic history painting and nudes
exhibitedWork Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers
Olympia
The Birth of Venus
exhibitedWorkCreator Alexandre Cabanel
Édouard Manet
field painting
sculpture
follows Salon of 1863
Salon of 1864
genre art exhibition
hasParticipant Alexandre Cabanel
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Parisian public
academic painters of the French Academy
critics of the Paris art world
Édouard Manet
impact contributed to the formation of an independent modernist movement
influenced younger painters sympathetic to Manet
strengthened the divide between avant-garde and academic artists
impactOnPerson boosted notoriety of Édouard Manet
knownFor displaying controversial works by Édouard Manet
intensifying the clash between academic art and modernism
public and critical debates about artistic modernity
languageOfContext French
location Paris
organizedBy Académie des Beaux-Arts
French state-sponsored art system
partOf Paris Salon exhibitions
linked to: Paris Salon
politicalContext reign of Napoleon III
precedes Salon des Refusés of 1867
relatedTo French academic art
Impressionism
Realism
modernism in art
significance key event in the emergence of modernist painting
pivotal moment in 19th-century French art
temporalContext Second French Empire
year 1865

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Paris Salon notableEvent Salon of 1865
Olympia (painting) exhibitedAt Salon of 1865
subject linked to: Olympia