For this essay, I plan to compare and contrast Francois-Joseph Heim’s Charles X Distributing Prizes after the Salon of 1824 and Francois-Auguste Biard’s Four O’Clock at the Salon. Heim’s Salon of 1824 represents a scene of salon in the Restoration period , and Biard’s Salon depicts a scene of Salon during July Monarchy . Those two periods are contiguous, which Restoration period was right before the July Monarchy. According to Chu, those two periods had totally different social processes and attitudes of art that we can tell from these two paintings I picked.
From the Heim’s Salon of 1824, there were many people who dressed black suits and standed surrounding the several people in the middle of painting. The tall wall was full filled with …show more content…
In Heim’s Salon of 1824, there are some extremely large canvases, and there are some small painting hung in the tall wall as well. Chu describes that those small paintings become invisible among those large canvases . This evidence illustrates that young artists had to submit the large works because the small works wouldn’t attract audience’s attention in the Restoration period . However, this kind of thing wouldn’t happen during the July Monarchy period. In Biard’s Salon, we could easily tell the size of painting is similar. This difference between two works is caused by the rapid popularization of “high art” during the July Monarchy period. According to Chu, he mentions that July Monarchy period was just like a “high art” period, which means that there were many opportunities to publish the art works . However, in the Restoration period, young artists were restricted to let common people know their works, because the old artists hold the power of Royal Academy of painting and they did not have many opportunities to publish their art works . In other words, young artists only can attract the attention of society by submitting the extremely large painting. Let me go back to talk about the marketplace in Salon during July Monarchy period. According to Chu, the amount of smaller size painting increased during that time because artists
From the Heim’s Salon of 1824, there were many people who dressed black suits and standed surrounding the several people in the middle of painting. The tall wall was full filled with …show more content…
In Heim’s Salon of 1824, there are some extremely large canvases, and there are some small painting hung in the tall wall as well. Chu describes that those small paintings become invisible among those large canvases . This evidence illustrates that young artists had to submit the large works because the small works wouldn’t attract audience’s attention in the Restoration period . However, this kind of thing wouldn’t happen during the July Monarchy period. In Biard’s Salon, we could easily tell the size of painting is similar. This difference between two works is caused by the rapid popularization of “high art” during the July Monarchy period. According to Chu, he mentions that July Monarchy period was just like a “high art” period, which means that there were many opportunities to publish the art works . However, in the Restoration period, young artists were restricted to let common people know their works, because the old artists hold the power of Royal Academy of painting and they did not have many opportunities to publish their art works . In other words, young artists only can attract the attention of society by submitting the extremely large painting. Let me go back to talk about the marketplace in Salon during July Monarchy period. According to Chu, the amount of smaller size painting increased during that time because artists