The judging for the 4th ARC International Salon Competition will be completed on Monday. As stated in the prospectus, only winners and finalists will be notified.

The ARC International Salon Competition is a virtual version of the 19th Century Paris Salon. Each year we are amazed at the quality of work submitted by contemporary realists, some at the beginning of their careers and some of the most well-respected artists living today-and this year is no exception.

The popular ARC Salon Catalog featuring the work of the finalists will be available for a pre-publication price in December.

ARC has announced that it will be donating ten copies of Virgil Elliot's recently released book Traditional Oil Painting to a series of academic libraries and museums in order to help promote the ideas in the book and to help boost sales among the larger number of people aware of it.

I recently found your site and I really am very moved by it.

I go to school of visual arts in Manhattan and I am in my third year studying illustration.

I definitely find it very funny because a lot of my teachers say students should steal from this artist and steal from that artist. I always find it weird and then the Chair of Illustration: I was talking to him about the body's exhibitions and he says that its sick and that you can find out about anatomy from looking at photos. I definitely would like to meet some people with the Art Renewal Center before I leave SVA but I definitely think I want to leave I really enjoyed listening to this speech by Fred Ross http://audio.artrenewal.org/FredRoss060520.mp3 and I definitely agree that good art takes patience and understanding of humanity and not just looking at a photo and then moving on.

My uncle does photo realistic art here is his website www.maxferguson.com.

Please email me back.

Thanks so much,
Scott Ferguson