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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a standard story of Impressionism: how it rose in opposition to brown-soup or frothy-pink "academic" art, how its icebreaker was Manet's Le | Dejeuner sur l'Herbe at the Salon of 1863, and how it chucked out past art (history painting, the academic portrait) in the interest of unmediated vision. This needs a grain of salt, and the Met's show administers several pounds of it, in the form of a prelude gallery that sketches the main contents of the official Paris Salon of 1859, the year in which, most observers concurred, the once unquestioned supremacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: New Dawn | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...disappearance of history painting must have come as a relief to the general audience. Now you didn't need to know who Gyges and Candaules were, and which one had the wife whose silky white backside was the real pretext for Gerome's painting in the 1859 Salon. It no longer mattered, at least from the viewpoint of painting, who won the Battle of Gaugamela, or which model was standing in for Phryne and which for Aspasia. In due course, movies like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments would satisfy the need once felt for Bible scenes, Greek agoras and Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: New Dawn | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...best pictures were tentative, imperfect and free of rhetoric became the model for any photographer coming to grips with the ambiguities of the American civilization. After a while his difficult vision of things was so well loved and widely imitated that it verged on becoming a late 20th century salon style: downer picturesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: The Long, Winding Road | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

Fred Dinkin, owner of Carl's Cutting Co., had never used coupon ads before, but chose the HSA coupon book to advertise his salon...

Author: By Frank T. Apodaca, | Title: HSA Distributes New Coupon Booklet | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

...street smarts by investigating the murder while Jeff and Stella watch from across the way. She is trying to convince her love Jeff that she can endure the danger and hardship he tackles on his photography assignments. She doesn't have to be holed up in some fashion salon or at the editor's desk of a fashion magazine. She's an independent gal who will prove to Jeff that even though she is from Park Avenue and knows the ritziest people in town (and could get him fashion shoots or portrait opportunities by the dozen in the City...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Look Out For 'Rear Window' | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

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