Carolyn Henry Art
Salon des Refuses
Rob
Acrylic on canvas
2008
Warrior Rising
Acrylic on canvas
2009
Me, Myself, Eye
My entry for 2010, hopefully successful.
The Salon des Refusés, French for “exhibition of rejects” is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.
Today by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.
Salon des Refuses, a popular Australian art exhibition which shows some of the rejected works to the Archibald Prize, Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture.