Leading the revival of realism in the visual arts, the Art Renewal Center (ARC), a 501(c)(3), non-profit, educational foundation, hosts the largest online museum dedicated to representational art and includes works by the old masters, 19th century, and 21st Century Artists as well as articles, letters and other online resources. The ARC is the foremost and only vetting service for representational art schools ensuring that the teaching curricula and quality of teacher and student work meet our strict standards to become ARC Approved™. The ARC also runs the ARC Salon Competition, which is the largest and most prestigious competition in the world for realist artists painting, sculpting and drawing today with eleven categories and thousands of works competing, culminating in a traveling live exhibition of many of the winning works. The ARC works with other ARC Allied Organizations™, artist groups, museums, and publications to become a central news hub for the 21st Century Representational Art Movement. Read the ARC Philosophy written by ARC Chairman, Frederick C. Ross, to learn why ARC is so passionately dedicated to representational art.
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New ARC Associate Living Master Published on 19 October, 2021
ARC is pleased to welcome Frederick Brosen as an ARC Associate Living Master!
"Frederick Brosen’s watercolors have been featured in over 30 solo museum and gallery exhibitions across the country, most recently at Hirschl and Adler Modern in NYC in February 2020.
His watercolors have been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions, in 2012 at the South Street Seaport Museum, in 2006 at the Museum of the City of New York and in 2002 at the Frye Museum in Seattle. The exhibition American Dreamland: Coney Island featured two of his large works and traveled to several museums across the country, ending in 2016 at the Brooklyn Museum."
To view his gallery on ARC, please click here.
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October 21, 2021
Added Masked Party in a Courtyard by Pietro Longhi.
Added Portrait of a Girl by Helene Schjerfbeck.
Added Tete de Femme by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added L’ Odeon du Luxembourg by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Chambre des Deputes no. II by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Notre Dame no. III by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Rue de Village by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Street in the Latin Quarter by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Portrait de Jeune Homme by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Notre Dame in Winter by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Place de la Concorde no. II by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Eglise de Ville by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Chambre des Deputes no. III by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added La Madeleine at Dawn by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added Place de la Concorde no. I by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added a new image of Creation of the Animals by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto.
Added a new image of Erechtheion. The portico of caryatids by Vasilij Dmitrievic Polenov.
Added a new image of State of Grace I by Rosemarie Armstrong.
Added a new image of The Seventh Wave by Rosemarie Armstrong.
Added a new image of The Seventh Wave by Rosemarie Armstrong.
Added a new image of Eglise de Ville by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added a new image of Femmes pres des Escaliers no. I by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added a new image of Street in the Latin Quarter by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added a new image of Tete de Femme by Frank Edwin Scott.
Added a new image of Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John by Jacopo Pontormo.
Added a new image of Portrait of Hélène Charlotte de Berquely-Richards by Philip Alexius de Laszlo.