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So, what’s the story with the #SalondesRefusés? .
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It all started in #1863 when future starts like #EdouardoManet, #PaulCezanne, #JamesMcNeilWhistler and #CamillePissarro were rejected by the jury of the official Academy Salon in Paris. The temperature between the progressives and the Academy was beginning to rise and even Napoleon III had started to feel the heat. His own autocratic approach wasn't terribly popular either, so in an attempt to quell a possible rebellion he decided to show his more liberal side. He insisted that a second exhibition be set up in opposition the Academy's Salon, so the public could decide whose approach to art was better. The name of the opposing 1863 show was Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected). #NapoleonIII had unwittingly released the modern art genie, he had given the artists a state-approved platform and with it, the notion that there was an alternative to the Academy. A breakthrough year for modern art. .
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Fast-forward 156 years and we find ourselves in the UK, getting ready for the 9th edition of #SalondesRefusés2019 Exhibition, brilliantly coordinated by #HappenstanceArtandFraming @happenstancegallery. A two-week extravaganza of artworks missed, unappreciated, misunderstood or sacrificed at the last minute by the Royal Academy Selection Committee, happening at #Margate during 25 July – 8 August 2019 and hosted by #JosephWalesStudios .
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🎬 Watch the video 📽 to see the work #AppNormalTelecommunications and a couple of Limited Edition Prints on show at
@_josephwales_ (2 Dane Hill, Margate CT9 1QP) Scroll for invite & details. 🎥
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A unique chance to appreciate non-establishment and democratic art. Entry is free. Visitors are invited to vote for their favourite works with winners announced at the exhibition’s finale on Saturday afternoon.
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Opening Reception on Thursday 25 July 6pm-9pm with live DJs and drinks. I’ll be there on Sunday, 28th July. Come and say ‘Hi, Cristina!’ .
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.#CristinaSchek #FernBoy #SurrealArt #salondesrefuses #royalacademy #summerexhibition #RA
So, what’s the story with the #SalondesRefusés? .
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It all started in #1863 when future starts like #EdouardoManet, #PaulCezanne, #JamesMcNeilWhistler and #CamillePissarro were rejected by the jury of the official Academy Salon in Paris. The temperature between the progressives and the Academy was beginning to rise and even Napoleon III had started to feel the heat. His own autocratic approach wasn't terribly popular either, so in an attempt to quell a possible rebellion he decided to show his more liberal side. He insisted that a second exhibition be set up in opposition the Academy's Salon, so the public could decide whose approach to art was better. The name of the opposing 1863 show was Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected). #NapoleonIII had unwittingly released the modern art genie, he had given the artists a state-approved platform and with it, the notion that there was an alternative to the Academy. A breakthrough year for modern art. .
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Fast-forward 156 years and we find ourselves in the UK, getting ready for the 9th edition of #SalondesRefusés2019 Exhibition, brilliantly coordinated by #HappenstanceArtandFraming @happenstancegallery. A two-week extravaganza of artworks missed, unappreciated, misunderstood or sacrificed at the last minute by the Royal Academy Selection Committee, happening at #Margate during 25 July – 8 August 2019 and hosted by #JosephWalesStudios .
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🎬 Watch the video 📽 to see the work #AppNormalTelecommunications and a couple of Limited Edition Prints on show at
@_josephwales_ (2 Dane Hill, Margate CT9 1QP) Scroll for invite & details. 🎥
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A unique chance to appreciate non-establishment and democratic art. Entry is free. Visitors are invited to vote for their favourite works with winners announced at the exhibition’s finale on Saturday afternoon.
.
.
.
Opening Reception on Thursday 25 July 6pm-9pm with live DJs and drinks. I’ll be there on Sunday, 28th July. Come and say ‘Hi, Cristina!’ .
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.#CristinaSchek #FernBoy #SurrealArt #salondesrefuses #royalacademy #summerexhibition #RA
So, what’s the story with the #SalondesRefusés? .
.
.
It all started in #1863 when future starts like #EdouardoManet, #PaulCezanne, #JamesMcNeilWhistler and #CamillePissarro were rejected by the jury of the official Academy Salon in Paris. The temperature between the progressives and the Academy was beginning to rise and even Napoleon III had started to feel the heat. His own autocratic approach wasn't terribly popular either, so in an attempt to quell a possible rebellion he decided to show his more liberal side. He insisted that a second exhibition be set up in opposition the Academy's Salon, so the public could decide whose approach to art was better. The name of the opposing 1863 show was Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected). #NapoleonIII had unwittingly released the modern art genie, he had given the artists a state-approved platform and with it, the notion that there was an alternative to the Academy. A breakthrough year for modern art. .
.
.
.
Fast-forward 156 years and we find ourselves in the UK, getting ready for the 9th edition of #SalondesRefusés2019 Exhibition, brilliantly coordinated by #HappenstanceArtandFraming @happenstancegallery. A two-week extravaganza of artworks missed, unappreciated, misunderstood or sacrificed at the last minute by the Royal Academy Selection Committee, happening at #Margate during 25 July – 8 August 2019 and hosted by #JosephWalesStudios .
.
.
🎬 Watch the video 📽 to see the work #AppNormalTelecommunications and a couple of Limited Edition Prints on show at
@_josephwales_ (2 Dane Hill, Margate CT9 1QP) Scroll for invite & details. 🎥
.
.
.
A unique chance to appreciate non-establishment and democratic art. Entry is free. Visitors are invited to vote for their favourite works with winners announced at the exhibition’s finale on Saturday afternoon.
.
.
.
Opening Reception on Thursday 25 July 6pm-9pm with live DJs and drinks. I’ll be there on Sunday, 28thJuly. Come and say ‘Hi, Cristina!’ .
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.#CristinaSchek #FernBoy #SurrealArt #salondesrefuses #royalacademy #summerexhibition #RA
#FernBoy 🌿 focus on the amazing Italian design hand-crafted frame by @leigh.warnick and the state of the art non reflective glass.
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#CristinaSchek #LeighGalleryHampton #HamptonGallery #arthouse19 #madeinrichmond #richmondgallery #orleanshousegallery #richmond_council #contemporaryart #interiorswithart #interiordesign #summerexhibition #decor #artcollector #LeighGalleryUK
Hanging out with #FernBoy 🌿 at @LeighGalleryUk. Thank you @damian_walker_photography, for the lovely photo.
#Bilquis. The Ancient Goddess of love. Worship place @leighgalleryuk, 3 New Broadway, Hampton Road, Hampton Hill, TW121JG. Monday to Friday 10-6pm. Saturday 10 -5.30pm. Sunday by appointment.
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The exhibition continues all through the summer. For sales DM or email leigh@leighpicturegallery.co.uk
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#AmericanGoddess #AmericanGods #QueenOfSheba #NeilGaiman #NativeIndian
#ArtHouse19 #MadeInRichmond #Surreal #SurrealArtwork
#CristinaSchek #LeighGalleryHampto #richmondgallery #orleanshousegallery #richmond_council #contemporaryart #interiorswithart #interiordesign #summerexhibition #decor #artcollector #openstudios #maw19 #masterpiece2019 #masterpiecelondon #LeighGalleryUK #GalleryHop
Lovely to meet Danny, the winner of the Signed Limited Edition Print of #FernBoy 🌿 and to find out the special spot where he plans to hang the artwork. Congratulations, @dbacl, you're one lucky guy! 🍀 Here he is with his precious print, meeting the Original #FernBoy 🌿 aka The Green Multiplier. .
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🌿 Fern Boy is a vegetation deity, a forest-God, an emblem of the birth-death-rebirth cycle of the natural year. He's made of prehistoric #ferns from the time dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and he's survived several mass extinctions! He speaks to us profoundly in our time of ecological crisis. We must take care of this child! .
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#ArtHouse19 #MadeInRichmond
#CristinaSchek #ClimateChange #EcologicalCrisis #SaveThePlanet #ArtEscapism #LeighGalleryHampton #awardedwork #richmondgallery #orleanshousegallery #richmond_council #contemporaryart #interiorswithart #interiordesign #summerexhibition #decor #artcollector #openstudios #maw19 #masterpiece2019 #masterpiecelondon #LeighGalleryUK #GalleryHop
🎺🎺🎺 BREAKING NEWS!!!! 🥁🥁🥁Among the finds uncovered in the Agiokampos excavation here's one of seismic proportions: The Paleolithic #FernBoy 🌿 aka my amazing nephew and the inspiration for Fern Boy!
