Posts for January, 2025

Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) painted magnificent, deceptively realistic floral still lifes with plants and fruits, butterflies and insects from the most diverse regions of the world. Her work became sought-after and expensive collector's items during her lifetime. Demand was so great that the Amsterdam painter could afford to produce merely a few works a year. As the daughter of the renowned professor of anatomy and botany, Frederik Ruysch, the first female member of the Confrerie Pictura, court painter in Düsseldorf, lottery game winner and the mother of ten children, she was an exceptional figure in her time.

The exhibition runs until March 16, 2025 at the Alte Pinakothek, 27 Barer Str., Munich, Germany.

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For more events and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Exploring the many ways that the French artist James Tissot represented modern women and envisioned their relationship to time during the last decades of the nineteenth century, this exhibition presents two of the AGO’s most beloved Tissot paintings alongside a selection of more than 40 works on paper donated by Allan and Sondra Gotlieb. The contradiction of the period comes alive in these works as the quickness of modernity, exemplified by the newfound speed of travel, fashion and commodity culture, is juxtaposed against the constrained pace of women’s everyday lives, characterized by caregiving, tending to customers or recovering from illness.

The exhibition runs Dec. 21, 20204- February 15, 2025 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W, Toronto, ON Canada.

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Visitors to the ARC website can vote for up to 10 of their favorite finalists or winning works. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and a full page in the 17th/18th ARC Salon publication, International Realism, to be published by ACC Art Books, a division of a global publisher. Visit the People's Choice Award section on the ARC Salon results pages and click on the vote button below the works of your choice to cast your votes. Visitors will be prompted to login or create a free account so that we can track votes and prevent users from voting more than once. The winner will be revealed for this final award on January 28, 2025.

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Epoch Times recently published an article about Pavel Sokov’s “Watching the Dance”, which won Best in Show in the 17th International ARC Salon Competition.

“Watching the Dance” is part of Sokov’s “Stories of the Tribes of Ethiopia” series, which he painted in 2022 after spending two months living among eight different tribes in the Omo Valley. According to his artist’s statement, the series is part of Sokov’s ongoing mission “to discover, understand and share the stories of traditional cultures around the world.”

To read the full article, please click here.  

The Art Renewal Center® is pleased to present the winners of the 17th International ARC Salon Competition, the largest competition in the world for representational art. The ARC received over 5,000 entries from 87 countries. 1,970 new works from around the world are now available to view on the ARC website. With the help of over 50 jurors, 213 awards and honorable mentions have been given out, including over $130,000 in cash awards. Entries for the 18th ARC Salon will be accepted starting March 1, 2025.

To view the 17th ARC Salon Results, click here.