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Pearce’s paintings can be described as expressive realism with surrealist imagery. She combines nature and and human form to create wild fantasy inspired paintings. In addition to numerous shows in central Illinois region, her work has appeared in Chicago and internationally. She currently is represented by Argazzi Art in Lakeville, Connecticut.

To view her gallery on ARC, click here.

I take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to you and to all of your collaborators at Art Renewal Center, for being brave enough to take a stand against the status quo of contemporary “artworks”, which had become so abstracted, deconstructioned, degenerated and finally, decayed and dehumanized that they had become anything but art and had in fact been declared “dead”. Thank you for not only lamenting the loss of beauty, dignity, intelligence, harmony, sensivitiy and sensibililty in art, but also for actively promoting a return to the ideals and techniques of the Old Masters. Thank you for remembering and honoring the tragically wronged masters of the past, especially William Bouguereau. (I spent months on a reproduction of “le Goûter“, only to realize that it wasn’t just a breathtakingly superb painting, but rather a most elegantly understated and poetic expression of the fragility and evanescence of youth). Thank you for caring enough about the past and the future of art and humanity to set up a site where seekers of beauty and knowledge can find hope, solace, inspiration and support. Thank you for refusing to accept the death of art and for fighting for her revival.

With my sincere best wishes and regards,
Cigdem Gokce, MD, MRCP(UK), Professor of Medicine; Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

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Gold Light Studios – 512 Scott Road, Perkasie, Pennsylvania 18944

This is a rare opportunity to hear ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott, talk about the 19th-century French academic painter William Bouguereau. Bouguereau employed traditional methods of working up a painting, including detailed pencil studies and oil sketches, and how his careful method resulted in a pleasing and accurate rendering of the human form.

Lecture and talk is free. Sponsored by Red Stone Farm Studio at Gold Light Studio, but please register as seating will be limited. Email your name and email address to: DotBunn@aol.com

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The deadline for the Studio Incamminati Scholarship is May 31, 2012.

Please visit www.studioincamminati.org/scholarships.php for more information.

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Dear Fred & Kara,

Again I would like to on behalf of the Angel Academy, it’s directors, faculty and students, express our deepest gratitude for your continuing assistance and generosity to all aspiring young artists (and not so young). Without your vision and support both financially and through your wonderful informative website I feel that this new realism would have taken much longer to attract the attention it now has.

I would particularly like to thank you for awarding our students, Kresten Smedemark and Hayley Brown who were both received Third Place Prizes in your 2011 ARC Scholarship Competition.

my warmest regards as always

Lynne Barton
Director

To view the prospectus for our 2012 Scholarship Competition, click here.

These instructional sections, one on the first stage of drawing called “the block in”, and the other being a longer and more intensive section on color theory, are now a valuable part of our free learning tools available to art lovers and students everywhere.

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