Salon des Refusés

Definition

A gallery for outsider art or art rejected from mainstream galleries.

Etymology

From French Salon des Refusés.

Example Sentences

• "The press reported rumors that a salon des refuses was in the works."
• "By the time American photographic pictorialists became interested in organizing their first salon, European painters and sculptors had been organizing salons des refuses in protest against the official salons of Paris for more than forty years."
• "Fifty-five paintings are a lot, and yet this year, for the first time, there is also an alternative show, a salon des refusés, set up by artists who did not make the final cut."