... more pure, powerful colours. By going against the authorized laws of the salon, these artists' works were rejected by many of the academic art institutions as they deemed it "amateurish" and "unfinished". The Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Refused) came ... for entertainment purposes- to laugh at the artworks! The salon ended up attracting much more visitors than the regular salon due to the new art style. The main members of the Impressionist group consisted of Claude Monet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Edgar ... Gogh and Edvard Munch) and the int...

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