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Stephen Gjertson Article Published on 19 July, 2018

ARC Living Master,  Steve Gjertson, has recently been interviewed by Emilio Longo - Visual Arts Teacher and author of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students and Artist-Teachers.

“In college I encountered hostility to representational art. My drawing instructors called it old fashioned and outdated. It was OK in the past, but serious contemporary artists created more expressive and relevant kinds of work. I had never been interested in so called Modern Art. It didn’t appeal to me because the representational element was either absent, distorted, or crudely rendered.”

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Bouquet - Natura Morte Published on 18 July, 2018

ARC Associate Living Master™ Louise Feneley's painting 'Bouquet - Natura Morte' has received a 'Highly Commended' distinction in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.

"The diverse, extraordinary forms of the underlying structure of leaves, seeds or flowers, of creatures like snakes, crabs, birds, mammals, and of shells, sponges, seaweed or wood, that remain when the force of life has departed, seem insignificant and of little consequence. But these intimate aspects of the natural world build soil and landscape in their own way, and who has not picked up a tiny skeleton, shell, unusual stone or withered flower, to marvel?"

Following the close of the exhibition, this work will form part of the tour to the National Archives of Australia in Canberra.

The exhibition takes place at the South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000 from June 8 - August 5, 2018

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Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage Published on 16 July, 2018

Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage is the first exhibition to bring together Church’s highly detailed compositions of sacred terrain in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. A leading painter of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, Frederic Church (1826–1900) was born in Hartford, Connecticut and had deep ties to the Wadsworth Atheneum, which maintains significant holdings of his early landscapes. This exhibition explores the artist’s journey to the other side of the world—not only to paint historical and biblical sites, but to also discover his faith and broaden his worldview.
  
Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage runs from June 2 - August 26, 2018 at the Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main St, Hartoford, CT 06103

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Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters Published on 13 July, 2018

Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italian old masters Fra Angelico and Pietro Perugino and their Northern contemporaries Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. It reveals how the Brotherhood’s aesthetic evolved over time to embrace artistic influences from the High and late Renaissance, such as Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Veronese. It also offers a rich multimedia opportunity to examine the artists’ attraction to stained glass, domestic decorations, and sixteenth-century textiles.
   
The exhibition runs from June 30 - September 30, 2018 at the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121.
   
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69 Shades of Women’s Art Published on 13 July, 2018

ARC Associate Living Master™ Gezien van de Riet will be participating in the exhibition, "69 Shades of Women’s Art".

The exhibition displays the work of 69 different women artists and is on display at Museum Mølmann, 102-104 Westersingel, Appingedam, 9901 GK in the Netherlands, from July 15 - September 16, 2018.

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