1 July, 2019
Vote for your favorite!
Visit the
People’s Choice Award section on the ARC Salon results page and click on the vote button below the works of your choice to cast your votes. Cast up to 10 votes ...
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30 June, 2019
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 14th International ARC Salon Competition! This year the ARC received over 4,300 entries from 73 countries. Our finalists ...
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27 June, 2019
The Art Renewal Center will post winners and finalists of the 14th International ARC Salon Competition on this coming Monday, July 1, 2019.
The International ARC Salon Competiti ...
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The Art Renewal Center dedicates this year’s top Landscape awards to the artistry and memory of
Leah F. Waichulis. An award-winning artist and educator, Leah’s paintings and drawings of interiors a ...
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26 June, 2019
Thank you to Academy of Realist Art, Boston for sponsoring the Portraiture Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
The Academy of Realist Art, Boston was established in the histor ...
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21 June, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master™, Vicki Sullivan, will have "Courage, Camaraderie and Consequence" and "The Director" in the Hidden Faces 2019 exhibition.
The exhibit ...
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20 June, 2019
ARC Living Master John Pototschnik was recently awarded Best of Show in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Online Spring International 2019 competition.
He has also author ...
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19 June, 2019
Mandy Theis, president and co-founder of The Da Vinci Initiative, was interviewed by Daniel Digriz of the Thriving Artist Podcast. The interview delves into the necessity for traditional training in ...
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19 June, 2019
Established in 1982 by Paul Ingbretson, the
Ingbretson Studio of Drawing and Painting provides a direct link to the Nineteenth Century Boston School approach to painting, which includes instructio ...
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14 June, 2019
ARC Master Ted Seth Jacobs passed away at his home in France this past April.
Born in 1927, Jacobs was a world renowned artist who dedicated himself to the Representational Art Movement. ...
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12 June, 2019
Thank you to Laguna College of Art and Design for sponsoring the Imaginative Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
Laguna College of Art and Design's Fine Arts department offers ...
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12 June, 2019
ARC Living Master™ Ken Salaz has recently had a review of his work in Forbes Magazine.
The article, "'Like Painting A Speeding Bullet,' Landscape Master Ken Salaz Depicts Tactile ...
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11 June, 2019
In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the special cooperation of the Gall ...
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10 June, 2019
ARC Approved Princeton Academy of Art is holding a Russian Academic Figure Drawing workshop on June 17th & 18th from 10:30am – 5:30pm.
The workshop explores the human figure as a construction ...
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Thank you to the
PleinAir Magazine and Plein Air Convention & Expo for sponsoring the Plein Air Paintings Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
PleinAir Magazine i ...
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7 June, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome the TIAC Academy of Fine Arts as our newest ARC Approved AtelierSM!
TIAC Academy is distinct in the way that it offers students an interdisciplinary curriculum and the a ...
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This exhibition celebrates the successful release of "Landscapes in Oil", a comprehensive guide to classical landscape painting, by ARC Living Master Ken Salaz. Salaz, author and painter, ...
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5 June, 2019
'Go Wild', an international exhibition curated by Conor Walton in collaboration with Poets&Artists Magazine, features work by several artists, including ARC Associate Living Masters Alex Callawa ...
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3 June, 2019
Come meet the individual painters, see their studios and work!
The ARC Approved Ingbretson Studios is an atelier in the truest sense of the word, working for over thirty years to develop painters ...
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31 May, 2019
Thank you to
Studio Incamminati for sponsoring the Drawing Category in the 14th International ARC Salon.
For more than a decade, Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art, has bee ...
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31 May, 2019
Artelibre gallery and MEAM Museum are exhibiting the 6th edition of the ModPortrait 2018 international competition, organised by the virtual gallery Artelibre. ModPortrait is the first international ...
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30 May, 2019
The ARC Approved Florence Classical Arts Academy is holding an exhibition of biblical themed paintings created by their students. The exhibition also celebrates 10 years of the Academy.
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30 May, 2019
Full Palette is a fundraising exhibition of over 50 beautifully painted palettes to benefit ARC Approved Florence Academy of Art U.S. 100% of the proceeds from this exhibition will go towards schola ...
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24 May, 2019
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Ruskin, the most influential art critic of the Victorian era, more than 90 paintings, watercolors, and drawings created by American artis ...
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24 May, 2019
Pastels—dry, satiny colors, manufactured in sticks of every hue—enjoyed a surge in popularity during the eighteenth century, becoming, for a time, the medium of choice for European portraiture. Unli ...
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22 May, 2019
Thank you to BoldBrush for sponsoring the Figurative Category in the 14th International ARC Salon.
BoldBrush is a free online art guild for visual artists. They offer a free daily member newsl ...
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21 May, 2019
ARC ApprovedSM Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art, celebrates 17 years of creating art and artists with a gala celebration in an artfully eclectic setting.
Enjoy cock ...
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17 May, 2019
The Art Institute of Chicago is holding an exhibition of Rembrandt portraits.
Rembrandt added new dimensions to the genre, constructing identities through props, lighting, and ambiguous setti ...
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16 May, 2019
The ARC Approved Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art is holding their annual Full Time Student Show. This year the theme is "Work in Progress, an Educational Experience" and celebrates the ...
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14 May, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome the Kline Academy of Fine Art as our newest ARC ApprovedSM Atelier!
Cheryl Kline started the Kline Academy in 2007 to give anyone who seeks a better art education an oppor ...
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13 May, 2019
This year, we are holding our 20th ARC Scholarship Competition. At ARC, we view our scholarship program as one of the most important. In order for future generations to produce great art, we must no ...
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10 May, 2019
We are very pleased to announce the finalists of the 14th International ARC Salon Competition!
This year we received over 4,300 entries from 73 countries. Approximately 35% of the works submitted h ...
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In June, Rehs Contemporary will present "A Noble Pursuit: The Majestic Landscapes of Ken Salaz" while celebrating the successful release of his book, "Landscapes in Oil", a compr ...
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9 May, 2019
ARC Approved London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA) is delighted to announce their Summer Scholarship Competition 2019! LARA London and LARA Bristol will both host one first prize winner for ...
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9 May, 2019
Thank you to the Florence Academy of art for sponsoring the Fully From Life Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
The Florence Academy of Art, one of the Art Renewal ...
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Students who successfully accomplish the Three-Year Diploma Program at the ARC Approved Florence Classical Arts Academy are awarded a private institutional diploma in Visual Arts of European Standar ...
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7 May, 2019
Full Palette is a fundraising exhibition for ARC Approved Florence Academy of Art, US.
Artwork will be created on palettes by faculty, alumni, students and friends of the school. 100% of the p ...
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2 May, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome SCA Forma Vera as a new ARC ApprovedSM K-12 Atelier!
The SCA Forma Vera offers a strong introduction to classical drawing, painting, and sculpting within the context of ...
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3 May, 2019
Rehs Contemporary will unveil a series of 13 new works from ARC Living Master Julie Bell at her first solo exhibition titled "Lush". The body of work put forth is a culmination of more tha ...
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2 May, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master Josh Tiessen is holding a solo show titled "Streams in the Wasteland".
Comprising over four years of painting, this series explores the theme of ...
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1 May, 2019
ARC Living Master™ Patricia Watwood's solo show "Beauty and Terror" will be on view at Dacia Gallery in New York City from April 30- May 17, 2019. This new body of figurative paintin ...
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1 May, 2019
ARC Living Master™ John Seibels Walker will be exhibiting his work at the annual spring open house at Dilworth Artisan Station 118 E. Kingstom Ave, Southend, Charlotte NC.
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26 April, 2019
Portrait Now! 2019 displays the best contributions from the 7th edition of the The Carlsberg Foundation’s Portrait Award competition.
Artists in the competition come from the Nordic countries, Russ ...
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Studio Incamminati Portrait Competition
ARC Approved Atelier Studio Incamminati, founded by Nelson Shanks one of the master portrait artists of our time, invites artists to its first-ever portrait ...
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23 April, 2019
ARC Living Master™ Richard Whitney has recently published a book titled "Advice to a Young Artist - Letters From Ives Gammell to Richard Whitney".
Ives Gammell, 20th century artist and te ...
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23 April, 2019
The ARC ApprovedSM; Princeton Academy of Art will be holding a week long Russian Academic Drawing Workshop focusing on portrait and figure from May 6-10, 2019.
ARC Living Master™; Gilberto Geraldo ...
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22 April, 2019
In order to bring realist art back into the mainstream of society it is imperative that young artists are properly trained. At our ARC Approved™ schools, we know these methods are still taught by so ...
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17 April, 2019
The Epoch Times has recently published an article by ARC C.O.O. and Co-Chair, Kara Lysandra Ross, about the upcoming sale of Bouguereau's "La Jeunesse de Bacchus" at Sotheby's.
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17 April, 2019
If you are in support of the 21st century realist art movement, we urge you to take a few moments to complete this simple six question survey. As the Da Vinci Initiative, ARC's sister organization,& ...
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17 April, 2019
Florilegium features over 45 works of painting, illustration, and sculpture, as well as botanical installation and floral design by students, alumni and instructors from the ARC Approved Grand Centr ...
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15 April, 2019
Emilio Longo, recently interviewed Boston School painter and foremost authority on the school's philosophy and methodology, Paul Ingbretson. Paul is also the founder of the ARC ApprovedSM Ingbretson ...
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11 April, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Hiroki Fukuda as an ARC Associate Living Master™.
Hiroki Fukuda learned the foundations of oil painting with Hiroshi Furuyoshi in 2010.
His style is influenced by the ...
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11 April, 2019
The Arts & Artists Foundation is accepting entries to the 10th Figurativas Painting and Sculpture Competition, which will be awarding a First Place Painting Prize of up to €36,000, a Sculpture A ...
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12 April, 2019
More than 15 works by ARC Living Master™ Mario Andres Robinson will be presented in 'An American Vision: The Art of Mario Andres Robinson'.
The exhibition runs from April 12 - May 1 ...
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11 April, 2019
In this workshop, hosted by ARC ApprovedSM Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art, ARC Living Master™ and best selling author Juliette Aristides breaks down the drawing process into small, manageable lessons ...
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10 April, 2019
The MEAM and TIAC Academy of Fine Arts Florence present "Beyond Language, Contemporary Chinese Realism", an exhibition of works by Chinese artists dedicated to traditional oil painti ...
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10 April, 2019
The International Guild of Realism is proud to present their first Winter Salon Online Exhibition. All participating artists are IGOR juried members and each has his/her own page on the IGOR website ...
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9 April, 2019
This is the first UK exhibition of the Spanish Impressionist, Sorolla, in over a century. Known as the 'master of light' for his iridescent canvases, this is a rare opportunity to see the most compl ...
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8 April, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master™ Arina Gordienko has been juried into The International Biennial Portrait Competition 2019. Her painting, 'Sublimation' will be exhibited among 56 portraits created by ar ...
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1 April, 2019
Our entry submission period for the 14th ARC Salon is now officially closed. We have had another large increase in submissions this year, receiving over 4,330 entries from 73 countries. Please ...
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29 March, 2019
ARC Approved AtelierSM Studio Incamminati's third annual Facebook Live broadcast, "Seeing, Creating, Progressing: Drawing and Sculpture," presents three different artists working in three ...
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28 March, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master™, Tina Garrett, has recently published an article on ARC titled "How I Started Teaching Workshops".
"In 2011 when the publishing house that was my mains ...
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27 March, 2019
Amanda Theis, President of the Da Vinci Initiative, was recently interviewed on Linda Riesenberg Fisler's podcast titled "All Things Creative". In the interview, she talks ...
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26 March, 2019
The National Sculpture Society is offering two scholarships for sculptors born between 1983-1998.
The SEWE Participation Scholarship is for emerging wildlife sculptors and has a deadline of April ...
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25 March, 2019
ARC Co-Chair and C.O.O Kara Lysandra Ross recently wrote an article in Outdoor Painter Magazine.
"At ARC we are doing our best to show the world that Realist Art is a movement, full and thri ...
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21 March, 2019
As many of you may have seen the deadline for the 14th International ARC Salon Competition was extended until 12:00 noon PST on March 31st, 2019.
Don’t miss the opportunity to partake in the larg ...
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19 March, 2019
The 5th International Figure Painting Competition is now accepting entries.
This competition seeks figurative oil paintings that depict traditional moral values and that were created usin ...
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18 March, 2019
The Foundation of the Art and the Artists, an ARC Allied Organization, is accepting entries to the 10th International Figurativas 2019 Painting and Sculpture Competition. The deadline is April 12, 2 ...
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16 March, 2019
Thank you to those who have already submitted entries to the 14th International ARC Salon Competition. Due to an overwhelming number of requests for more time and a high volume of last-minute submis ...
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15 March, 2019
On the occasion of the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Artelibre Gallery, led by Jose Enrique González, there will be an exhibit 160 works in 20cm x 20cm format made by ove ...
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15 March, 2019
This exhibition traces the development of the nude through some of the great masters of the Renaissance. Bringing together works by artists such as Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Dürer and ...
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14 March, 2019
Rehs Contemporary Gallery is holding an exhibition of international works curated by Lance Rehs and Didi Menendez called "I Observe".
Work by ARC Living Master™ Anna Wypych and ARC Associ ...
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11 March, 2019
Chiaroscuro Atelier is offering a one month Intensive summer course running from 8/1-8/30/19.
This four week course is a great opportunity for people to have a taste of what Chiaros ...
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8 March, 2019
We are only 1 week away from the deadline to enter the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
Please be sure to get your entries in by end of day PST on March 15th!
When talking about comp ...
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6 March, 2019
ARA Boston has extended it's deadline for it's annual scholarship competition. The scholarship awards a student their first full year of training tuition free. The Academy of Realist Art, Bosto ...
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6 March, 2019
‘Canaletto and Venice’ celebrates the work of Antonio Canal, also known as Canaletto, the artist whose paintings have made the city on water immortal and the lively artistic peri ...
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5 March, 2019
The Rijksmuseum marks the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 2019 with the exhibition, "All the Rembrandts". The exhibition will present for the first time all 22 paintings, 6 ...
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1 March, 2019
Join the Da Vinci Initiative's first ever open house in their new teaching studio! Gather with artists, educators, and supporters in celebrating the formation of The Da Vinci Initiative Atelie ...
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28 February, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Kevin Murphy as an ARC Associate Living Master™!
With no measurable formal training, Kevin Murphy began his career in the art industry at the age of 23 as an illustrator. ...
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27 February, 2019
The California Arts Club, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their 108th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition.
More than 300 sculptures and paintings of genres ranging from landscapes an ...
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27 February, 2019
The European Museum of Modern Art will be presenting 'Painting Today', an international exhibition of contemporary realist figurative painting.
The MEAM has commissioned curator Didi Menendez, from ...
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26 February, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master™, Tina Garrett, is holding her first ever solo oil painting show, "Pieces of Me” featuring an intimate look into the unbounded inspiration Tina finds in her wide ran ...
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26 February, 2019
The ARC ApprovedSM Florence Classical Arts Academy will be holding an exhibition in honor of the 500th death anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci. The anatomy artwork of Alexey Bakhtin and student ...
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21 February, 2019
This course is designed for people who would like to receive the foundation training in drawing and painting at the ARC Approved Florence Classical Art Academy. The summer course allows student ...
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22 February, 2019
ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott will be giving a lecture on oil painting materials and methods that will give an artist's paintings the best chance of surviving over the long term. This lecture wi ...
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21 February, 2019
In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Hermitage Amsterdam, two anniversary exhibitions featuring a cross-section of masterpieces from the entire collection of the St Petersburg State Hermita ...
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20 February, 2019
The 13th International ARC Salon Exhibition, which is now on display at the MEAM Musuem in Barcelona Spain, was recently featured on a news segment on Barcelona-TV. The ARC Salon Exhibit is op ...
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20 February, 2019
Trompe l’oeil means the illusory reproduction of real-life objects by artistic methods, giving the viewer the impression of the actual thing being present rather than a depiction.
The&nb ...
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15 February, 2019
On Friday, February 8th, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) held their official Award Ceremony at the MEAM Museum in Barcelona, Spain to launch the opening of the 13th Internation ...
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15 February, 2019
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture will be the first major exhibition in the United States to focus on the portraiture of Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520/24–1579/80). A painter of portrait ...
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14 February, 2019
Arcadia Contemporary and the Art Renewal Center are proud to present "ARC Visions 2019," a group exhibition featuring the prestigious winners of the "Arcadia Contemporary Award" ...
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11 February, 2019
The Da Vinci Initiative is celebrating the opening of their new studio space.
The event will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 6 PM – 8 PM at 930 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306-6301.
For mo ...
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8 February, 2019
Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist focuses on the artist’s treatment of the modern figure through approximately 70 paintings from public and private collections around the world. A timely reev ...
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8 February, 2019
Bouguereau & America showcases more than forty masterful paintings by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The exhibition explores the artist’s remarkable popularity thro ...
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6 February, 2019
ARC Living Master™ Ken Salaz will be releasing a new book this March titled Landscapes in Oil.
Landscapes in Oil is the first-ever comprehensive guide to classical landscape painting rein ...
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5 February, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan has recently conducted a video interview with Emilio Longo, Visual Arts Teacher and author of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students a ...
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1 February, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Stephen Jesic as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™.
Stephen has been an artist from his youth, and it has been now more than twenty years since he was able to devote ...
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31 January, 2019
Emilio Longo, Visual Arts Teacher and author of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students and Artist-Teachers has recently conducted a podcast interview with ARC Living Master ...
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30 January, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome the St. Petersburg Art Academy in Florence as our newest ARC Approved AtelierSM!
The State Academy of St. Petersburg I. E. Repin has recently opened an official branch in ...
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30 January, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome John Cogan as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!
John paints almost exclusively in acrylic, working on canvas or panel. He strives to capture creation’s splendor ...
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