Art Salon - Painting
4 – 25 May 2012
The exhibition Art Salon – Painting originated on the basis of an open call to artists and the wider public Exhibit your Work in DOX!
The open call attracted 535 entrants with 1132 works, which were exhibited at 1 000m2 of exhibition space.
The voting for the best exhibited work progressed at: http://www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz
The open call attracted 535 entrants with 1132 works, which were exhibited at 1 000m2 of exhibition space.
The voting for the best exhibited work progressed at: http://www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz
Formally, the total winner is Teodor Buzu, who gained 5 votes in the exhibition and 2411 votes on Facebook. Congratulations to the effective use of social media!
The prize for the highest count of votes given by the DOX visitors goes to Patrik Hábl, who collected 252 votes in the exhibiton and 609 votes on FB. He became the only participant of Art salon who placed amongst the first twenty both on FB and in the exhibition (where he gained the first place).
The final amount of votes was 2670 in the exhibition and 16 318 on Facebook. The summary sheet can be downloaded as the pdf file in three versions - sequenced by the authors' surnames, the number of votes in the exhibition and the number of votes on Facebook.
Thank you for your votes!
The prize for the highest count of votes given by the DOX visitors goes to Patrik Hábl, who collected 252 votes in the exhibiton and 609 votes on FB. He became the only participant of Art salon who placed amongst the first twenty both on FB and in the exhibition (where he gained the first place).
The final amount of votes was 2670 in the exhibition and 16 318 on Facebook. The summary sheet can be downloaded as the pdf file in three versions - sequenced by the authors' surnames, the number of votes in the exhibition and the number of votes on Facebook.
Thank you for your votes!
The beginnings of art salons date back to the second half of the
17th century in France at exhibitions held under the royal patronage of
the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The salon was an
official exhibition of the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris
(Académie des beaux-arts) and its influence on the development of
exhibition practice and art criticism is seen as entirely fundamental:
the Paris salons were the first ever public exhibitions of fine art.
From the second half of the 18th century until 1890, the Paris salon was
the largest artistic exhibition in the Western world, and its influence
on the reputation of the artist and the style of his work was
absolutely fundamental. Until the first half of the 18th century
exclusively members of the French Academy had the opportunity to exhibit
within the context of the salon, and until the French revolution this
was the preserve of only French artists, however eventually the rules
were relaxed and the salons were made available to other artists, the
selection of whom was nevertheless still subject to a professional panel
composed of key representatives of the Paris Academy. At the beginning
of the 19th century the Paris Salon enjoyed its greatest heyday and its
influence on European art reached its peak, but the conservative
constitution of the academic panel laid the foundations for its gradual
decline. The failure to understand new directions such as realism and
impressionism led to the establishment of a “Salon of the Rejected”
(Salon des refuses) in 1863, and of the Salon of the Independents (Salon
des indépendants) in 1884, which can be regarded as the cradle of
modern art.
The exhibition in its conception of installation of paintings in
several rows above one another links back to the installation of the
Paris salons. The principle of open entry however rather recalls the
Salon of the Independents, which coined the phrase “no panel, no
prizes”. The exhibition show more than 1000 paintings. The exhibited
works are not subject to the selection of
a commission or any other classification or hierarchy. Art Salon is
a democratic arena, an arena for public participation and criticism.
a commission or any other classification or hierarchy. Art Salon is
a democratic arena, an arena for public participation and criticism.
