Giuseppe Guindani Painting Sold

3 January, 2016

Mooncalf, by Giuseppe Guindani, which won an honorable mention in the Imaginative Realist Category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition has now sold. The painting is a part of the first live exhibition of the ARC Salon which traveled from the MEAM Museum in Barcelona and is now on display at the Salmagundi Club, New York City, until February 4th. To view a list of the other works available for sale, please click here.

New ARC Associate Living Master™

4 January, 2016

ARC is pleased to welcome Jane Jones as an Associate Living Master™!

Harmony by Jane Jones

"The flowers in her paintings all come from her gardens, or a local orchid grower, and are infused with the crystalline light of her home in Colorado. 'Every year I get to participate in the amazing transformation of a plant that survived the winter, into a determined plant reaching for the sun and giving all of its life force to create glorious and spectacular flowers.' Each painting is composed to highlight the most beautiful qualities of each flower. In its way, each painting is a celebration of that piece of nature." To view her gallery on ARC, please click here.

Fred Ross Lecture Tonight

3 January, 2016

ARC founder and Chairman, Fred Ross, will be giving a lecture tonight about the Visual Language of Realism at the Salmagundi Club. Come and view the paintings before the lecture. Wine and Soda available for purchase 5pm – 7pm. Come early to ensure seating. The Salmagundi Club is located on 47 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003.

Richard Whitney Awarded Honorary Doctorate

2 January, 2016

ARC Living Master™ Richard Whitney was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for lifetime achievement by the University of New Hampshire at commencement last May before a crowd of 25,000. Whitney graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of New Hampshire in 1968. He studied with Sidney F. Willis and with the eminent Boston painter, R. H. Ives Gammell, for five years.

Whitney is nationally known for his realistic portraits and landscapes. Town and Country magazine recently named him one of the top dozen portrait painters in America. Fine Art Connoisseur called him one of “the giants of the field” of figurative painting. His paintings hang in over 750 public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Whitney has won over 40 regional and national awards. To view his gallery on ARC, click here..

ARC Salon Now Open

1 January, 2016

The ARC Salon is now open for viewing at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth ave between 11 & 12th st., NYC. The show will run until Feb 4th.

Florence Academy of Art Exhibition

5 January, 2016

The ARC Approved™ Florence Academy of Art is holding an exhibition of works created by alumni, students and instructors from their FAA Swedish branch. This event is free and open to the public. It runs from January 24 - March 18, 2016 at the Florence Academy of Art, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306.	Mia by Stephen Bauman
The opening night of the show is January 24 from 1-6 pm. For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/faausbranch?fref=photo.

Upcoming ARC Salmagundi Events in the Epoch Times

4 January, 2016

The Epoch Times has published an article about the upcoming lecture by ARC Chairman, Fred Ross, at the Salmagundi Club in NYC.
	“ARC will be planning several lectures and educational events during the time the show will be in New York City. On Wednesday, January 20th, from 7:00 to 8:00, Frederick C. Ross, will being giving a lecture entitled, The Visual Language of Realism and Its Critical Importance in Fine Art.
In this thought-provoking lecture, Mr. Ross uses logic, aesthetics and his passion for contemporary realism to prove the cause of realism as the highest form of visual art." To read the rest of the article, click here. To purchase tickets to the speech, click here.

Composition and still life workshop with Michael John Angel

3 January, 2016

ARC Living Master™ Michael John Angel will be conducting a 5 day workshop on Composition and the Art of Still Life. This workshop focuses on the many aspects involved in painting a still life. Students will complete a number of studies and paintings and receive demonstrations of technique as well as individual and group critiques. The workshop is being held from July 25 – July 29, 2016 at the Classic Art Atelier, Industrieweg 68, 3606 AS Maarssen, The Netherlands. For more information about this workshop, please click here.

Fred Ross Lecture in NYC on Jan 20

2 January, 2016

John Rowe featured in <i>Fine Art Connoisseur</i>

1 January, 2016

ARC Associate Living Master™ John Rowe has recently been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.
“The range of Rowe’s work is stunning — and inspirational. While many artists hone their skills on portraiture, landscape, still life, and figurative subjects, Rowe has done it all, from book illustration to movie posters, traditional subjects, and beyond.” To read the full article, click here.

ARC Salon Opens Jan 18 in NYC

5 January, 2016

Dreamer's Descent by Dorian Vallejo

The first Art Renewal Center Live Salon is on its way to the Salmagundi Club in New York City, where it will be on display from January 18 - February 4, 2016. Seventy-five works of Post Contemporary Realist art culled from the winners and finalists from the 11th ARC Salon will be on view. The Art Renewal Center is also holding several exciting events during the show, including a speech by ARC Chairman Fred Ross, a lecture by Julie Bell and David Palumbo, and a collaboration with the Da Vinci Initiative, whose mission is to bring skill-based techniques like those embodied by the works in the ARC Salon into K - 12 classrooms.

To purchase tickets for these events, please click here. All proceeds will help fund the ARC and help to pay for the costs involved with running the show. Donations are also welcome and are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

The Venetian Technique With Virgil Elliott

5 January, 2016

ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott is conducting a workshop at The Florence Studio, from June 6-17, 2016. Students will learn how to apply an opaque gray and white (grisaille) underpainting to a master copy and will then develop the drawing and painting using transparent glazes for the shadows and more opaque passages for areas of light. Painters who have used versions of this technique include Old Masters such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Titian. The skills developed throughout this course will be valuable to the future of your own original works. Scumbling, glazing and the importance of value relationships are the focus of this workshop. Classes are small and relaxed in a beautiful studio in the historic center of Florence, Italy.

For more information about this workshop and to register, please click here.

Ryan Brown Workshop

3 January, 2016

	Ryan Brown, head of the ARC Approved™ Center for Naturalist Study and Academic Painting, is teaching a special 5 day intensive workshop. Participants will discover how to paint realistic portraits with hands on one-on-one instruction. The workshop is being held at Liliedahl Studios in Austin, Texas from January 20 – 24, 2016. This exclusive workshop is limited to 15 participants.
For more information and to register, please visit https://mediahub.clickfunnels.com/lv-brown2.

ARC Live Salon in Huffington Post

2 January, 2016

An article about the upcoming live ARC Salon Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York has been published today in the Huffington Post. Brandon Kralik writes, "What a great step this is for paintings done in the Classical style to be featured in a major European museum dedicated to Realist art! It's essentially unheard of. Now we have the privilege of seeing this tantalizing show in North America. There are a plethora of celebratory events planned around the exhibition including a talk by Fred Ross, ARC founder and president, on the visual language of realism and the Da Vinci Initiative will be conducting drawing and painting workshops, and more." To view the article, click here. To learn more and purchase tickets, click here.

La Fête Sauvage by Adrienne Stein

Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art Student Exhibition

1 January, 2016

ARC Approved™ Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art is holding a student exhibition at The Loft at Liz’s located on 453 S. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036. The show will be open from January 6 – 11, 2016. A special evening event to view the art and meet the artists is being held on January 9, 2016 from 7-10 pm. For more information about this event, please visit laafa.org.