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Rejection
There
is a plethora of information when it comes to "How to be an Artist"
with tips like “ When you finish your first sketchbook, buy another! By the
time you've finished that you'll have improved so much" and "Get your
work out there by trying to get your artwork into art galleries"[1],
which is great advise. But this exhibition will be focusing on an aspect of the
artist that is often over looked. Although
not uncommon ground for the avant-garde and/or controversial artist, it is
still an unpleasant part of being an artist and that is rejection. But instead of feelings of dejection and
sorrowful, these pieces from famous artist are intriguing and some are
responsible for the start of an art movement but all were at some point
rejected by an art exhibition. Here are 5 artist and their pieces that we're rejected.
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Jean Désiré
Gustave Courbet
French (1819-1877)
The Painter's Studio
(L'Atelier du peintre): A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic
and Moral Life
1855
Oil on Canvas
235.43" x
141.34" (361 x 598 cm)
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
Considered
to be Courbet's most mysterious composition[2]
was completed in 6 weeks[3]
and was submitted it to the 1855 Exposition Universelle. Eleven of his works
were accepted; this painting was not one of them. Not too pleased with this
rejection Courbet found the funds to stage his own exhibition, this too also
failed. One to not be defeated Courbet has gone down in history as a courageous
innovator who would not accept rejection and has paved the way to Realism. [4]
Paul Cézanne
French (1839-1906)
The Abduction
1867
Oil on Canvas
351/4" x 411/2" (90.5 x 117
cm)
Paintings Drawing and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, UK
Wanting
to paint something ‘immense’ Cézanne painted The Abduction, with subject matter of violence and eroticism, was
painted at the home of his childhood friend Emile Zola.[5]
Painted during what is referred to as Cézanne's Dark Period because of it use of
dark hues and subject matter, this was more and likely rejected by Paris Salon
with the rest of his submissions that are from 1864 to 1869.[6] An outcast to his community as well as
to other artist Cézanne painted up to the day he died and is remembered as
being one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists.[7]
Édouard Manet
French (1832–1883)
Nana
1877
Oil on Canvas
60.6" × 45.3" (154 × 115 cm)
19th. Century, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Feasibly
inspired by Emile Zola's book L'Assommoir, which explored content pertaining to
poverty and alcoholism in the working-class of the 19th century. Needless to
say, Nana was not readily accepted when it was submitted to the Salon of Paris
in 1877, rejected on the grounds of being too controversial.[8]
179 paintings, pastels, drawings,
and prints later, some of which earned medals in his lifetime[9],
Manet is known for today as being innovative and accomplishing the transition
between Realism and Impressionism.[10]
Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859 – 1891)
French (1859-1891)
Bathers in Asnières
(Une baignade à Asnières)
1884, retouched 1887
Oil on Canvas
79 x 118 1/2 (201 × 300 cm)
Beyond Impressionism: Pissarro and Seurat, National Gallery
London, UK
Consisting
of 62 sketches before the final piece was created[11],
Seurat submission of Bathers in Asnières to
the Salon of Paris was rejected. Instead it was shown in Groupe des Artistes
Indépendants.[12] It is
interesting to note that Bathers in
Asnières is not painted in the painting technique that Seurat is famous
for, pointillism because he hadn't invented it yet.
Marcel Duchamp
French (1887-1968)
Nude Descending a
Staircase, No. 2 (Nu descendant un escalier n° 2)
1912
Oil on Canvas
57 7/8" x 35 1/8" (147 x 89.2 cm)
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, Philadelphia
Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Considered
an outrage, Nude Descending a Staircase,
No. 2 was the painting that made Duchamp famous in America.[13] Submitted to the Salon des Indépendants
exhibition in Paris it was his own two brothers, who were fellow artist and
committee members for the salon that informed Duchamp that his painted was
rejected. The reason it was rejected was according to Cubist painters "A
nude never descends the stairs--a nude reclines."[14]
Later that year Nude Descending a
Staircase, No. 2 was shown in Salon de la Section d'Or and Duchamp who is
associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism leaves a legacy of humor and
unconventionality.[15]
[1] "How to Become an
Artist". http://www.wikihow.com, April 22, 2013.
http://www.wikihow.com/Become-an-Artist
[2] Herve Lewandowski.
"Gustave Courbet The Artist's Studio". www.musee-orsay.fr. 2009.
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/the-artists-studio-7146.html?tx_commentaire_pi1[pidLi]=509&tx_commentaire_pi1[from]=841&cHash=04a684ad7e
[3]"The Painter's
Studio". en.wikipedia.org. 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painter%27s_Studio
[4] "Gustave Courbet (1819
- 1877)". www.rehsgalleries.com.
2013.http://www.rehsgalleries.com/browse_by_artist.html?artist=247&sold=1
[5] "Paul Cézanne 1839 -1906 The
Abduction". The Fitzwilliam Museum. 2013. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/FrenchImpressionists/gallery/cezanne.files/Cezanne_Lenlivement_SE.html
[6] "The Abduction"
www.artsmypassion.com. 2013.
http://www.artsmypassion.com/The-Abduction-p/b1022.htm
[7]Nicolas Pioch.
"Cézanne, Paul". Webmuseum, Paris. 2002. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/
[8] "Nana".
totallyhistory.com. 2013. http://totallyhistory.com/nana/
[9] Rebecca Rabinow.
"Édouard Manet (1832–1883)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mane/hd_mane.htm
[10] Nicolas Pioch. "Manet,
Edouard ". Webmuseum, Paris. 2002.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/
[11] John Russell. Seurat.
Norwich, Great Britain: Jarrold and Sons LTD, 1965
[12] "Georges Seurat".
en.wikipedia.org. 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painter%27s_Studio
[13] "Nude Descending a
Staircase". http://www.marcelduchamp.net. 2013.
http://www.marcelduchamp.net/Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.php
[14] "Modern and
Contemporary Art Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)" Philadelphia Museum
of Art. 2013. http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51449.html.
[15] Andrew Stafford.
"Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp". www.understandingduchamp.com. 2006.
http://www.understandingduchamp.com.
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