Leading the revival of realism in the visual arts, the Art Renewal Center (ARC), a 501(c)(3), non-profit, educational foundation, hosts the largest online museum dedicated to representational art and includes works by the old masters, 19th century, and 21st Century Artists as well as articles, letters and other online resources. The ARC is the foremost and only vetting service for representational art schools ensuring that the teaching curricula and quality of teacher and student work meet our strict standards to become ARC Approved™. The ARC also runs the ARC Salon Competition, which is the largest and most prestigious competition in the world for realist artists painting, sculpting and drawing today with eleven categories and thousands of works competing, culminating in a traveling live exhibition of many of the winning works. The ARC works with other ARC Allied Organizations™, artist groups, museums, and publications to become a central news hub for the 21st Century Representational Art Movement. Read the ARC Philosophy written by ARC Chairman, Frederick C. Ross, to learn why ARC is so passionately dedicated to representational art.
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One Year Portraiture Program at the Florence Classical Arts Academy Published on 7 December, 2021
Winter Enrollment Intensive Program - January 31, 2022
Summer Intake Intensive - April 12, 2022 - September 30, 2022 (with a 2 week break in August)
This course is a long and intensive program on portraiture. Composition studies, sketching practice, museum practice and artistic anatomy are also included in the curriculum. These subjects support and enhance deep comprehension of the complexities of portraiture. Students can choose from two major directions: drawing portraiture or painting portraiture. The course is recommended for both beginners and advanced painters, as the professor assists students both individually and in the group.
Course objectives include:
- Learning about the compositional arrangement of the canvas
- Understanding proportions of the big and small forms of the head
- Deepening anatomical analysis and its application in the drawing and painting process
- Refining details of the face (nose, eyes, lips and etc.)
- Developing a broader coloristic and tonal vision and elaborate implementation of all aspects
- Revealing physiological complexion of the model's character
Schedule: Monday to Friday (3 hours per day)
*Winter Enrollment Intensive Program is a One-Year program that contains the same amount of academic hours offered for one year in a shorter time frame. There are three evening classes included additionally in the curriculum weekly during the period of February - May.
Schedule: Monday to Friday (3 hours per day) plus 6 hours of evening courses weekly.
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The ARC Museum is the largest online museum dedicated completely to realist art work. It contains tens of thousands of images by thousands of artists and includes works by 19th century and old master artists through our general search pages, as well as 21st century realist works by our ARC Affiliated Artists™.
Our news section consists of two parts, the first being our News Blog where we post daily to keep our viewers informed on relevant topics about realist art and the second is our Events Calendar which is an interactive calendar listing of all the exciting realist art events taking place around the world including: exhibitions, lectures, open houses, competitions, artist demonstrations, video and podcast releases, publication releases, enrollment dates and more. The calendar can also be viewed in three ways, as a calendar, a general listing, or as a world map.
As a non-profit educational foundation, education is one of our primary goals. Here is where you can find our ARC Approved™ School listing, ARChives where we have our articles, letters and more, The Da Vinci Initiative which focuses on skill-based learning in K-12 classrooms, artist interviews, artist demonstrations, podcasts, self help books and more.
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View the results of past and current ARC competitions or submit your entries here. The ARC holds two types of competitions. The ARC Scholarship Competition, held every May, gives thousands of dollars in direct financial aid to students attending ARC Approved Schools. The International ARC Salon, the most prestigious realist art competition in the Americas and perhaps the world, offers over $100,000 in cash awards and International recognition through partnerships with prestigious magazines, galleries, museum exhibitions, and a strong online presence.
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December 8, 2021
Added Lars Jorde.
Added Johan Krouthen.
Added The Church at Varengeville by Claude Monet.
Added Who? by Nikolaj Alexejewitsch Kassatkin.
Added Rival Ladies by Nikolaj Alexejewitsch Kassatkin.
Added Moonlight by Carl Maria Seyppel.
Added The House Maid by William McGregor Paxton.
Added Christmas Gifts by Lars Jorde.
Added Landscape in Moonlight by Fanny Churberg.
Added Kuutamomaisema by Fanny Churberg.
Added Tio Paquete by Francisco de Goya.
Added a new image of Tio Paquete by Francisco de Goya.
Added a new image of Talvimaisema, auringon mailleen mentyä by Fanny Churberg.
Added a new image of Anita by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen.
Added a new image of Portrait of the Artist's son Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos by El Greco.
December 7, 2021
Added Ralph Wormeley Curtis.
Added Robert Browning by Ralph Wormeley Curtis.
Added Drifting with the Tide by Ralph Wormeley Curtis.
Added Bather by Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier.
Added Maternity by Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier.
Added a new image of The Bridge of Sighs, Venice by Ralph Wormeley Curtis.
Added a new image of Rome: The Interior of St Peter's by Giovanni Paolo Panini.
Added a new image of Rome: The Interior of St Peter's by Giovanni Paolo Panini.