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Salon des BeauxWritten By: Kelly Johnson
In a Parisian cafe, around the1860s, a group of artists gathered to discuss little of their tea and pastries and more of their passion for art and the ideas behind it. The result? A painting modernization known as Impressionism, moving out from the studio and onto the streets of Paris and into the French countryside — painting en plein air. These painters loosened brush strokes and lightened pallets, creating a mere impression — a fleeting moment — breathing freedom into their works. With limited success and few artworks accepted in the salon exhibitions of Paris, the artists turned to alternative exhibition spaces. Holding an exhibition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, on the top floor of the studio of photographer Felix Nadar, in 1874.
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Critics were merciless. Trained to expect the polished illusions of the Salon painters, they were shocked by the raw, unblended, illdefined paint used by Degas, Renoir, Monet and company. It wasn’t until 1877 that they called themselves the Impressionists, taken from a newspaper article titled, "Exhibition of the Impressionists," and the term stuck. This month we are taken away from the Parisian cafe, away from the studio of Felix Nadar, and into the studio of Wilmington’s own, Dan Beck. Bringing some of the finest painters from across the nation together for the first time to display their talents and impressions at the Salon des Beaux-Artes, on October 7, 2018. ¶
Dan Beck www.danbeckart.com Dan Beck has won many prestigious awards including two gold medals from the Oil Painters of America, one national (2011) and one eastern regional (2017) and a silver medal in the western regional. He has also won awards of excellence from the American Impressionist Society, Ramar Art Competition, and Bold Brush Art Competition. Art has always been his first love since childhood, but wanderlust was his motivation following high school. He worked in everything from construction on a beach in Florida, to four years in the infantry. After hearing about an art school in Denver his life found its focal point and he was determined to take part in the rich tradition of art. “Painting is a balancing act between opposite ideas - direct observation and instinct, control and spontaneity, even between the literal and the symbolic.”
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