Written by Amanda Coers – The Brownwood Art Association will host a reception for the annual Salon des Refusés Exhibit on Thursday, February 9th, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Art Center, 215 Fisk Avenue in downtown Brownwood. The reception is free and open to the public.
The Art Association’s Salon des Refusés Exhibit is in partnership with the Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit. The name is a tongue-in-cheek moniker, and includes works not accepted into the Stars Exhibit. Salon des Refusés, French for “exhibition of rejects,” is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863, which began after a protest from over 1,000 artists not accepted in the Paris Salon Exhibit. “Wishing to let the public judge the legitimacy of these complaints,” said an official notice, Emperor Napoléon III decreed that the rejected artists could exhibit their works in an annex to the regular Salon.
Today by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.
The Brownwood Art Association Salon des Refusés Exhibit will be open to the public for viewing February 5-17th, Monday-Friday from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, Saturday from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm at the Art Center at 215 Fisk Avenue. All art is for sale, with prices set by the artists.
