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September 2008

Cees Penning is now an ARC Living Artist™

1 September, 2008


Cees Penning, has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™

Visit the Cees Penning Gallery


2 Tulips
by Cees Penning

Ted Seth Jacobs Portrait Intensive at BACAA

1 September, 2008


ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a
Three Month Intensive Portrait Program at the
Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont California
November 10, 2008-February 13, 2009

Three-month intensive portrait painting program:
The Uniqueness of the human Individual

Ted Seth Jacobs, specialist on Light and Structure~
Likeness depends upon accurate drawing. The basis of drawing is seeing the exact special shape of everything. Making the head look human requires an understanding of organic structure, from the largest underlying masses to the smallest surface forms. It is necessary to paint a likeness of every structure.

You will learn to create form through the actions of light. Gradations must be shaped, according to the light direction and the shape of each form. Each individual subject's features are generated from a matrix proportional ratio. This will be an intensive session, loaded with information. The great portrait tradition is based on non-photographic human interactions. One human being interpreted by another!
Learn More and Register

by Ted Seth Jacobs

Yu-Tang Yang is now an ARC Living Artist™

0 September, 2008


Yu-tang Yang, has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™

Visit the Yu-Tang Yang Gallery


Changbai Mountain Trip
by Yu-Tang Yang

ARC Store Has New Selection of Largest Prints

0 September, 2008


The ARC Store has a new feature: A selection of new artworks, which are now available at the Largest Print Sizes will be listed in a special section of the ARC Store.
Click here to see if your favorite artwork is available at 36 x 44 inches.


The Fisherman and the Siren
by Sir Frederick Leighton

Cesar Santos is now an ARC Living Artist™

5 September, 2008


Cesar Santos, who teaches at ARC Approved Atelier Atelier Stockholm has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™

Visit the Cesar Santos Gallery


Offspring(detail)
by Cesar Santos

ARC Living Master™ Donato Giancola

4 September, 2008


Donato Giancola, this year's third place winner in the 2007 ARC Salon Competition figurative category, for his painting: The Golden Rose , has been approved as an ARC Living Master™

Visit the Donato Giancola Gallery


The Golden Rose
by Donato Giancola

Fine Art Prints of Chivalry, by Frank Dicksee

3 September, 2008


Fine Art Prints of Chivalry, by Frank Dicksee have often been requested at the very largest sizes as the painting itself is just under 72 in. high. Now, thanks to the generosity of an ARC enthusiast, this exceptionally popular artwork is available at the largest size, 36 x 44 in. on Fine Art Paper or Fine Art Canvas from the ARC Store.

All proceeds from print sales from the ARC Store, which offers DVD's , Books and Educational Resources as well, are used for ARC Scholarships and Programs.


Order Chivalry

David Jermann is now an ARC Living Artist™

1 September, 2008


David Jermann has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™.

Visit the David Jermann Gallery


Compote with Fruit
by David Jermann

From a Letter to ARC

0 September, 2008

“I happened upon your awesome website this weekend and spent hours drooling over all the awesome art. As you have advertised, you have the largest art collection I have seen to date on the Internet. Incredible! Awesome! Just doesn't say it all.”


Eileen Sterling

Artist Mark Lovett Approved as ARC Living Artist™

3 September, 2008


Mark Lovett has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™.

Read Mark's bio and
Visit the Mark Lovett Gallery


I Promise
A Work in Progress

New Gallery for ARC Master Dan Thompson

4 September, 2008



The Gallery for ARC Living Master™, Dan Thompson is now available for viewing on ARC.

In 2006, Dan Thompson co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York. He has also instructed privately at Studio 126 in New York and taught at Parsons the New School for Design, the New York Academy of Art and at the Art Students League of New York. He has taught workshops in Seattle, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and in France.


Persian Archer
by Dan Thompson
Dan's work can be found in the collections of Forbes Magazine, New York, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, and John Barth & Son, in Nuremburg, Germany, among others.
Visit the Dan Thompson Gallery

ARC Museum Crosses a Milestone

1 September, 2008

The ARC Museum database has crossed a milestone: With 65,536 images our database is now full and is being reconfigured to allow integers up to 4,000,000. That's a lot of images!

The ARC Museum was created as an educational and artists resource.
As the visitor rate for the ARC Museum continues to grow, and we expand our scope of artists and artworks, ARC has become the first and last stop for a sound knowledge of the great artists of humanistic realism throughout art history.

The Foundation for the Art Renewal Center, a 501(c)3) is a private, not-for-profit educational foundation, a charity founded in 1999 to present responsible opposing views to the modernist art establishment. The ARC website, www.artrenewal.org has become internationally famous as a hub for artists, educators, gallery owners, curators and art lovers and a huge educational resource.

ARC supports traditional realism and technical mastery in the visual arts. The ARC Atelier Section and Map allows aspiring artists and art students the opportunity to select a true classical atelier which has achieved ARC approval. Each Atelier has it's own section with detailed information about the schools listed as ARC Approved™. The Living Masters™ Gallery provides exposure to contemporary realists with masterly skills and shows us that there are those dedicated to the realistic traditions who are fast at work in the 21st century.

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