Berthe Morisot was a friend of both Degas and Manet (she would marry Édouard Manet’s brother Eugène by the end of 1874). Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Sisley had met through classes. He wanted Paris to come to him and accept him-even if he had to endure their ridicule in the process. Manet had set up his own pavilion during the 1867 World’s Fair, but he was not interested in giving up on the Salon jury. The impressionists regarded Manet as their inspiration and leader in their spirit of revolution, but Manet had no desire to join their cooperative venture into independent exhibitions. The decision was based on their frustration and their ambition to show the world their new, light-filled images. The Impressionists held eight exhibitions from 1874 through 1886. The show opened at about the same time as the annual Salon, May 1874. They called themselves the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Printmakers. They pooled their money, rented a studio that belonged to the famous photographer Nadar and set a date for their first exhibition together. So, in an attempt to get recognized outside of the official channel of the salon, these artists banded together and held their own exhibition. ![]() They needed to show their work and they wanted to sell it. They all had experienced rejection by the Salon jury in recent years and knew waiting a whole year in between each exhibition was no longer tenable. Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, and several other artists could not afford to wait for France to accept their work. At that time, the salon was really the only way to exhibit your work (the work was chosen by a jury). ![]() They established their own exhibition-apart from the annual salon. The group of artists who became known as the Impressionists did something ground-breaking, in addition to their sketchy, light-filled paintings. Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1872 (exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874) Establishing their Own Exhibitions-Apart from the Salon
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