In his book The Fine Arts Movement of the Japanese Occupation, Hsieh Li-fa discusses how in order to enter a competition, artists first had to take their works to the house of the teacher judging the competition so that he could view them. Sometimes, they even had to take their preliminary sketches to the teacher to be corrected. The salon model grew up in this way.
謝里法在所著作的「日據時代台灣美術運動史」一書中，就提到當時的畫家為了參賽，得事先將作品送到當審查員的老師家中請老師過目，甚至還有在草圖打好後就請老師修改，沙龍模式也就這樣形成。