The Salon was held at Louvre, too. Every inch of the Grand Salon was covered with artworks, and it even sparked new artwork describing the venue. The writings of the exhibited pieces is considered to be the start point of modern art critique. That was where an ideal of realistic approach was heavily considered.
After complaints of the rejected, Napoleon III wanted to give room for the turned down Impressionists and their art as well, and so they formed the Salon des Refusés. This was considered the birth of avant-garde.
Vienna Secession or the Union of Austrian Artists was formed 1897 by artist, designers and architects in the Art Nouveau era, whereas in London Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society formed in 1887 was to promote decorative arts. The founding president has said:
“We desired first of all to give opportunity to the designer and craftsman to exhibit their work to the public for its artistic interest and thus to assert the claims of decorative art and handicraft to attention equally with the painter of easel pictures - - good and bad art, or false and true taste and methods in handicraft - - in whatever material, seeing that a worker earned the title of artist by the sympathy with and treatment of his material, by due recognition of its capacity, and its natural limitations, as well as of the relation of the work to use and life.”
President as well, William Morris gave spark to a movement that underlined handicraft in printed material, as an outgrowth of Arts and Crafts Movement.
After a famous painter’s Akseli Gallén-Kallela’s artwork, a group of artists got together in a Symposion gathering (hanging out with a sphinx). They spent a long evenings at restaurant Kämp, searching for renaissance for Finnish spiritual life, new powerful existentialism placing melancholy of decadence, late nights until the next morning (drunk.)
Société Anonyme, Inc. was formed in 1920 by Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. They were a publishing platform for everything about modern art, before the Museum of Modern art was founded.
Japanese folk art movement, Mingei, was founded between late 1920’s and 1930’s. Promoting hand crafted art and functionals made by ordinary people, anonymous and unknown craftsmen. Headman Yanagi Sōetsu’s book “The Unknown Craftsman” was released in English in 1972, and was quite remarkable when it was released. It was about appreciating art and beauty in everyday objects.
“If you believe you have genius, or if you think you have only a brilliant intelligence, write the Letterist Internationale.” Paris based avant-garde movement that got together between 1952 and 1957, a blend of intellectualism, protest and hedonism and might be viewed as French approach to the Beat Generation.
Psychogeography is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and drifting in the city. The artform has links to the Letterist and Situationist Internationals, influenced by Marxists and anarchists and Dadaists and Surrealists. The main point is a playful and new strategies for exploring cities.
In 2011, Luke Turner published “The Metamodernist Manifesto”. Turner described metamodernism as "the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons”. In 2014, the manifesto became the start point for LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner's collaboration, after Shia LaBeouf reached out to Turner after reading the text, with the artists started a series of metamodern performance projects exploring connection, empathy, and community across digital and physical platforms.