Salon d'Automne
The Société du Salon d' Automne ( also known under the shortened name of the Salon d' Automne or the Paris Autumn Salon) is an in 1903 by the architect Frantz Jourdain and composed by Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet and Édouard Vuillard, alongside the older Odilon Redon, Paul Cézanne, Eugène Carrière and Auguste Renoir - the latter two were present as honorary president - based organization. She was a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon.
When the Salon des Independants will open in the spring and in general studio art shows that had arisen during the winter, so the new Salon, as its name implies begins in the fall, so that the artists show the created over the summer outdoor works can. In contrast to the former, which is limited to painting and sculpture, granted the Autumn Salon nor the architecture, music, literature, and even the decorative space, but is also generous foreign artists open.
History
The first exhibition of the Salon was in 1903 held at the Petit Palais, from 1904 to the present the art exhibition is held annually in October or November in the Grand Palais in Paris, to show with the aim of all the tendencies of modern painting. The years 1937 and 1940 are exceptions, due to the Paris Exposition, the exhibitions were held at the Esplanade des Invalides in the gazebo of the Salon and in 1940 at the Palais de Chaillot in 1937.
The Paris Autumn Salon became famous mainly through the exhibition of 1905, in the works of Henri Matisse and his friends in Room VII were shown and the term Fauvism was born. In 1907, Paul Cézanne retrospective and Paul Gauguin's memorial exhibition took place. 1911 presented Guillaume Apollinaire, among other things, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger and Fernand Léger. After the First World War, the Salon d' Automne was dominated by the works of the painter from the Montparnasse such as Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Georges Braque. The largest painting in the exhibition 1927 La cueillette of amandes came from Georges Gimel.
Until the 1950s the salon important venue for avant-garde art was, he was overtaken by the radical nature of the Biennale of Paris or the Salon de la Jeune Peinture.