With their vacuous subjects and splashy brushwork, these salon paintings have the very special awfulness of expensive kitsch.

That's a hefty dose of art by any standards, and an overdose if the work is as high in calories as the salon paintings on view.

Subtract the shock value, and what you have here is the salon painting of the 1990s.

His ambition was such, his confidence in his ability to challenge the masters so absolute, that his large works and salon paintings could be overdone.

It would be great if one could arrive at a presentation that convicts, so to speak, the salon paintings, the official paintings, on their own terms.

The gilt and marble lobby is hung with 19th-century salon paintings.

Then the taste for salon painting evaporated, along with the Met's interest in new art.

Departing from the typical subjects of realism, he produced colourful salon paintings and still lifes.

But it may be representative of a new academic musical style: historical salon painting in sound.

These are filtered through the compositional styles of 19th-century French and English academic salon painting and kitschy Hollywood historical films.