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Foundation Course in Painting and Drawing Published on 22 February, 2019

This course is designed for people who would like to receive the foundation training in drawing and painting at the ARC Approved Florence Classical Art Academy. The summer course allows students to spend many class hours practicing outdoor painting and drawing along with studio hours dedicated to working with the models, anatomy and various studio subjects.

This course provides students with highly individual and customized training in small student groups.  This program enables a student to gain the necessary applied knowledge in order to begin building their portfolio.

The class is held in Florence April 29 – August 2, 2019.   For one week in June, the students have an option of having their plein-air training in Florence or in Lido di Jeloso at the Adriatic coast (students pay extra for the stay in a 4-star hotel and breakfast included). After break from August 5 - 9, class resumes in Cineto Romano from August 12 – 30, 2019 and in Florence from September 2 - 13, 2019.

For more information please inquire at info@artac.org.

Virgil Elliott Lecture: Painting for Posterity Published on 22 February, 2019

ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott will be giving a lecture on oil painting materials and methods that will give an artist's paintings the best chance of surviving over the long term. This lecture will address the chemistry aspects of oil paints, mediums, grounds, varnishes, etc. in as much depth as the time allotted will allow.

The lecture will be held on February 24, 2019 from 2:00-5:00pm at the Coppini Academy of Fine Arts, 115 Melrose Pl, San Antonio, Texas.

For more information, please click here.

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Treasury! Published on 21 February, 2019

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Hermitage Amsterdam, two anniversary exhibitions featuring a cross-section of masterpieces from the entire collection of the St Petersburg State Hermitage will be on display.

The initial event will be Treasury!, the first of the two anniversary exhibitions, will include works by Bernini, Da Vinci, Rembrandt and Velázquez. Also on exhibit are outstanding works of art from from Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome; as well as antiquities from Siberia, the Middle East and East-Asia. 

The exhibition runs from 2/2-8/25/19 at the Hermitage Amsterdam, 51 Amstel, Amsterdam, 1018 EJ, Netherlands.

For more information, please click here. 

To learn about other exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

International ARC Salon on Barcelona TV Published on 20 February, 2019

The 13th International ARC Salon Exhibition, which is now on display at the MEAM Musuem in Barcelona Spain, was recently featured on a news segment on Barcelona-TV.  The ARC Salon Exhibit is open from now until March 31, 2019.

To watch the interview, click here.

To learn more about the live exhibition, click here. 

We are currently accepting entries to the 14th ARC Salon from now until March 15. To learn more or to enter, visit the ARC Salon Entry Pages.

‘Believe not thine eyes.’ Trompe l’oeil in Art Published on 20 February, 2019

Trompe l’oeil means the illusory reproduction of real-life objects by artistic methods, giving the viewer the impression of the actual thing being present rather than a depiction. 

The exhibition is created entirely from the Hermitage’s own stocks, around 700 items, including paintings and works of graphic art, sculpture, articles made from silver, glass and semiprecious stone, various fabrics and pieces of furniture ranging from the 14th to the early 20th century.

The exhibition will be open in the Manege of the Small Hermitage, 2 Palace Embankment, Saint Petersburg, Russia and runs from 12/8/18-3/10/19.

For more information, click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.