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Portrait Drawing Master Class at the Princeton Academy of Art Published on 19 September, 2019

ARC Living Master Gilberto Geraldo will be holding a Portrait Drawing Master Class at the Princeton Academy of Art.

The master class will begin with a portrait drawing demo done by Gilberto. Students will work from the model for the remaining 4 days to complete a well composed and rendered drawing.

With a focus on human anatomy, perspective, and tactile approaches to analyzing form, students will build a better understanding of the portrait. The workshop will enforce a constructive academic approach to drawing while introducing students to atmospheric perspective.

The class runs from October 7 - 11, 2019 at the Princeton Academy of Art, 138 Nassau St, Fl 2, Princeton, NJ 08542. Students unable to take the entire workshop can attend the portrait demo.

For more information, please visit https://www.princetonacademyofart.com/event/gilbertoworkshop/.

20th Anniversary Exhibition: California Art Club at The Old Mill Published on 19 September, 2019

The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization, will be celebrating their gallery’s 20th year at The Old Mill. To commemorate this historic milestone, this exhibition features paintings of The Old Mill and iconic images of the surrounding area. Subjects include The Old Mill, Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena City Hall, views of the San Gabriel mountains, San Juan Capistrano mission and more. This exhibition will be on view at the California Art Club Gallery at The Old Mill in San Marino, CA from September 10, 2019 – January 12, 2020.

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For more exhibitions, please visit the ARC calendar.

Mysterious, Marvelous, Malevolent: The Art of Elihu Vedder Published on 13 September, 2019

Since its first public appearance in 1863, Elihu Vedder’s The Questioner of the Sphinx, has been a mystery. It is the first of a group of bizarre and visionary paintings, drawings, and book illustrations that Vedder (1836 – 1923) began to create in New York City at the outset of the American Civil War. Prior to this, he had spent three years abroad, studying in Paris and Florence. There, he produced mostly bucolic studies of the Italian countryside. When he returned to New York City in 1861, he made an abrupt and radical departure into the mysterious and the dangerous.

This exhibition explores Vedder’s journey into the realm of vision, nightmare, and dream. It considers Vedder’s fascination with ancient myths and legends of the monstrous and the terrible within the context of the horror, destruction, and alienation engendered by the national crisis of the American Civil War.

The exhibition runs from 4/05 - 12/29/2019 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genesee St., Utica, NY 13502.

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Ana Schmidt Panel Discussion: Waste Ground Published on 13 September, 2019

Painter Rob Reed and Writer and Film-maker John Rogers join ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt during her solo exhibition to discuss what makes urban waste ground such an interesting and inspiring place for many artists.

The panel discussion takes place on September 18, 2019 at the Mall Galleries, The Mall
London SW1, United Kingdom

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William Blake Published on 11 September, 2019

William Blake was a painter, printmaker and poet who created some of the most iconic images in British art.

Inside the exhibition will be an immersive recreation of the small domestic room in which Blake showed his art in 1809. You will be able to experience for yourself the impact these works had when they were shown for the first time. In another room, Blake’s dream of showing his works at enormous scale will be made reality using digital technology.

With over 300 original works, including his watercolours, paintings and prints, this is the largest show of Blake’s work for almost 20 years. It will rediscover him as a visual artist for the 21st century.

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For more exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.