After three or four months of busyness, the job has stabilized, although the salary is not too high, but there are fifteen days of rest a month for me to write books, knowing that after such a long break, maybe there are not many people chasing after it, and some books have to have a beginning and an end.

May 1863 was destined to be a day that stirred up the French literary and artistic circles. Trains to Gare du Nord are filled with young painters with square frames wrapped in linen, who have come from all corners of the country to the bustling metropolises to participate in this literary and artistic feast.

The Champs-Élysées is more lively than usual, and the artists who participate in the exhibition embark on a journey to fame with confidence with their works. Although classical romanticism will eventually become a thing of the past, the Académie des Beaux-Arts since its establishment in 1684 has dominated and controlled the status of art, and the conservative old immortals have been criticized for excluding all new things. As Astrück puts it, "We control the discourse of the Parisian art scene, and anything that goes against our will will will be sidelined and liquidated, without exception." ”

For example, the director of the interior decoration of the Palace of Versailles, Charles Lebrun was the founder and first director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. His decorative and palatial painting style was at home among the Parisian aristocracy. Coupled with his keen political acumen, Lebrun was appreciated by Louis XIV and reached the pinnacle of his career.

During his tenure at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Lebrun used his influence to elevate the representation of drawing to the primacy of the Academy's teaching, while relegating the color factor to the back burner. Through this "battle of styles", Lebrun continued his influence on the French art scene for an entire century.

After a century of glory, prosperity is nothing more than the afterglow before it falls.

Feng Shui turns, the dawn of the Impressionists has shone on the holy land of French painting art, and the twilight academic school has not yet realized that the painters who emphasize color and light and shadow are holding a crazy counterattack, this crazy counterattack, is the whim of Napoleon III Losers Salon.

The Salon of the Losers sounds like a gathering of unlucky people, painters who are superstitious about the results of the official authoritative review do not want to reproduce the ugliness, and some of the salons have hurt their self-esteem because of their defeats, and they are afraid of retaliation from the Salon Jury, so they take back their paintings. In the end, just over 1,500 paintings were hung in the exhibition halls of the Palais des Industries in Paris.

Monet took "Lunch on the Grass" and Whistler took "The Lady in White" to this grand banquet, even if they were ready to be ridiculed, they had to seek the approval of the general public.

As a teacher of Gauguin and Cézanne, Pissarro brought "Lodesiep Lynn" to the exhibition, and they both wanted to make their paintings and genres public.

And Gallian agrees with the new age painters who dare to declare war on conservatives. Sitting in the carriage and looking out of the street, he could see some painters with canvases on their backs heading in the direction of the exhibition hall. They couldn't afford a private carriage, and art was expensive. Almost all of his possessions were spent on canvas and paint.

"It's a great start, my friend."

Garian excitedly said to Zola, "France has been chiseled by the stubbornly conservative art style that has been held for nearly a century, and the light that emerges from the cracks illuminates the dark world. Perhaps even His Majesty the Emperor did not realize that his unintentional move would change the history of French art. Thanks to our emperor, after a lot of tricks in foreign policy, he made a good move in the art of internal affairs. ”

Zola was not keen on the art of painting, but he took Galion's words anyway.

But will the populace embrace these advanced art styles? I mean, well, how to put it, these don't look like paintings with shapes. ”

Garion took a heather pipe, smiled slightly, and said, "Oh, my dear Zola, you overestimate the independent thinking of these people, and if the citizens of Paris had some artistic appreciation, they would not have mocked the poor painters in the matter of the Salon." From the very beginning, His Majesty the Emperor hoped to use public opinion to attack new things, hoping that they would die of this heart, and that classicism was orthodox. On the contrary, however, painting provides the soil for survival. ”

Leaning back on the carriage, Garion said earnestly, "A seed planted now will one day become a towering giant tree." ”

The exhibition hall was crowded, and perhaps a quarter of the citizens of Paris came to visit the free salon, which was also an unprecedented gathering of trolls.

Ordinary citizens were pleasantly surprised to find that they had become judges, and they had a legal opportunity to gossip, and they were waiting to enter the venue and spray. In the past, who dared to stare at the blinds and talk nonsense, if you didn't do well, you would be ridiculed for not understanding art, but now the paintings hanging on the wall are all paintings that have been denied by the jury team, and the general direction has been set, and you can open up and scold the dishes.

After all, stepping on people is always easier than praising them.

The exhibition hall was crowded, and Garion walked almost crowding people forward, and there were quite a few people gathered in front of each painting. Some are gentlemen in three-piece suits and elegant manners, while others are "pantsless men", although their status levels are different, but their caliber is almost the same.

All of them expressed contempt for the paintings of the unsuccessful salons.

Rough, superficial, oddly shaped, colorful, I don't know what to think.

It seems that the entire hall is filled with Parisian literary critics.

"Oh my God, what are these things, do painters nowadays like to introduce the inferior laborers and the vulgar hillbillies into the noble art of painting? No wonder these paintings were unsuccessful, it turned out that the painters were a group of uneducated mud legs. ”

Garion paused, and he turned his head to see several pot-bellied men pointing at the paintings hanging from the walls, their words revealing disdain and mockery.

And the painting they criticized made Garion stop in an instant.

The corners of his mouth twitched.

I gasped.

The ragged worker, the silent back, the rough hands painstakingly digging the hard rock, the whole painting is matched with a dull and miserable tone, which is out of place with the surrounding satin-clad and pointing at the upper class.

Masonry

The signature in the lower left corner is an outstanding representative of realism in the future, and later generations even commented on his status in French painting art.

"Without him, there would be no Manet; Without Manet, there would be no Impressionism. ”

Author: Courbet.

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