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2007 ARC Scholarship Contest Announcement

1 March, 2007

We are pleased to announce the 2007 ARC Scholarship Contest. We will award at least $10,000 in scholarships to winners with over $80,000 awarded to date. Entries will be accepted through May 31, 2007. To enter, download the PDF version or the Microsoft Word version of the application form.

Applications must include five to ten sample works for judging, three letters of recommendation including one from the instructor with whom you are studying, a biography/CV, and a 250 word essay. For more information please contact Paul McCormack at pwmccormack@aol.com.

Click here to see last year's winning entries.


Cody Swanson
Eve
Clay
(66 x 30 inches)
2006 ARC Scholarship Contest First Place Winner

9 New Works of Art Added to the ARC Museum

3 March, 2007

3/19/2007: 9 new works of art by the following artists were added to the ARC Museum:
Mose Bianchi [1];
Carlo Brancaccio [1];
Pasquale Celommi [1];
Eugene Delacroix [1];
Henri Duvieux [1];
Egisto Lancerotto [2];
Giuseppe de Nittis [1];
Gustavo Simoni [1].

Egisto Lancerotto
The Gift
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection

Featured Artist: Jules Breton (1827-1906)

1 March, 2007

As one of the primary academic painters of the nineteenth century, Jules Breton evolved a painting style that combined a realist selection of thematic material with an interest in creating figural types that reflected the idealism of the classical traditions. His paintings were often regarded as containing poetic references and his compositions suggest a timeless world where the workers of the field symbolically were linked with literary elegies that evoked their best qualities. Although his works were out of favor for a long period of time, and his compositions were often used as convenient examples of so-called "bad-painting" by supporters of the modernist camp who panned any style whose goal was to portray the trials of the human condition instead of being dedicated to destroying the defining characteristics of great traditional art. Breton's celebration of human values of work, family, home and hearth did not fit into their nihilistic paradigm, despite his poignant and poetic themes painted with a compositional force and sophistication of technique that clearly places him amongst the greatest artists of his time. Breton's paintings have returned to public consciousness through recent exhibitions and an interest in collecting his works by private patrons and museums. He is an artist who has benefitted greatly from the long over due revisionist reappraisal of nineteenth century academic painting.

Jules Breton was from a rural region in the north western part of France. He was born (May 1, 1827) and spent his youth in Courrières, a small village in the Pas-de-Calais; he died in Paris on July 5, 1906. His father, Marie-Louis Breton worked for a wealthy landowner whose land he supervised. After the death of his mother, when Jules was 4, he was brought up by his father. Others in the family, who lived in the same house, and had a deep influence on the young artist's upbringing, were his maternal grandmother and especially his uncle Boniface Breton. All instilled in the young man a respect for tradition, a love of the land and, especially, for his native region, which remained central to his art throughout his whole life providing the artist with many scenes for his Salon compositions.

He received his first artistic training not far from Courrières at the College St. Bertin near St. Omer. Later (1842) he met the painter Félix de Vigne (1806-1862) who was impressed by his youthful talent and persuaded his family to let him study art. In 1843, Breton left for Ghent (Belgium) where he continued to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts with de Vigne, and an other teacher from the school, the painter Hendrik Van der Haert (1790-1846). Sometime later (1846), Breton moved to Antwerp where he took lessons with Baron Gustaf Wappers; he also spent much of his time copying the works of Flemish masters. Trained as an academic artist, Breton was well aware of other artistic tendencies such as the role of genre painting. In 1847, Breton finally left for Paris where he hoped to perfect his artistic training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

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Jules Breton
The Song of the Lark
Oil on Canvas
1887
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA


Jules Breton
The Water Carrier,1881
(81.9 x 61.6 cm)
Private Collection


Jules Breton
The Rest of the Haymakers
Oil on Canvas
1872
Denison University, Granville, Ohio, USA

Florence Academy of Art Workshops in Sweden

1 March, 2007

The Florence Academy of Art has announced that it will offering Summer Workshops in Florence and Molndal, Sweden.

Daniel Graves Exhibition

1 March, 2007

Daniel Graves, founder and director of the Florence Academy of Art will have his first one-man exhibition at Eleanor Ettinger Gallery March 8, 2007 - April 1, 2007.

ARC Receives $10,000 Grant

1 March, 2007

ARC is delighted to announce that is has received a grant of $10,000 from the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund to be used for the 2007 ARC Scholarship Program. This grant will allow ARC to double the funds available for scholarships this year. We are proud to have been recognized by the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund as it places us in great company. The Schapiro Fund has played a helping hand or a major role in making many cultural and artistic projects of merit possible. So from everyone at ARC and from all the students who will benefit from this grant, a hearty thanks to the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund. We also want to thank Jacob Collins who suggested that ARC apply for the grant.

More details, including additional information about the Schapiro Fund, will be posted shortly.

25 New Works of Art Added to the ARC Museum

1 March, 2007

15 Letters Added to the ARC Museum

1 March, 2007

32 New Artist Letters Added to the ARC Museum

1 March, 2007

25 New Works of Art Added to the ARC Museum

1 March, 2007

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