Salon painting

Salon painting. Where French nudes go to get their hair done.
Surrealism. See Political art in America.

Salon painting
the style acceptable to the Paris Salon; by implication dull and stereotyped.
Scholar-painter ...

The studio nude, posed, had been the very protein (or, to its detractors, the basic starch) of Salon painting from Ingres to Bouguereau.

And Manet's work, that appeared "slightly slapdash" when compared with the meticulous style of so many other Salon paintings intrigued some young artists.

See also: Realism, Impression, Painting, Impressionism, Renaissance