Posts for January, 2021

What does “atelier-style teachings” mean? How can an education in technical realism benefit today’s art student? How does Studio Incamminati's pre-BFA track program with Rowan University work? Find the answers to these questions and more during their Virtual Open House!

The open house takes place on Saturday, February 6, 2021 from 12-2pm EST.

Zoom information to be sent after registration

To learn more, please click here.

For more events please visit the ARC Calendar.

The MEAM will exhibit the works of the international painting competition "Lohengrin", organized by the Wagner Club and the MEAM in collaboration with the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The 49 works, which include the 4 winners, deal with the plot and concept of Lohengrin from the figurative side and have been selected by a jury made up of Katharina Wagner, Dr. Sven Fiedrich, director of the Wahnfried Museum in Bayreuth, Lourdes Jiménez, an expert in Wagnerian art, Víctor Garcia Gomar, Christina Scheppelmann among others.

ARC Associate Living Masters Arina Gordienko and Mikel Olazabal will be among the exhibiting artists.

To learn more, please click here. 

For more events please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC Associate Living Master Arina Gordienko’s painting 'After You', is the Second Prize Winner at the Favorite Subjects international painting competition in the International Artist Magazine. She is featured in the December/January 2021 issue of the International Artist Magazine. This award-winning painting will also be featured in the American Art Collector Magazine.

Arina shared a story behind her work: "Wind...Uncertainty... Detachment...I was working on this painting during the long weeks of lockdown isolation. I think lots of people had their mood down and felt depressed and lonely. Maybe lots of people had the same thoughts as me - what if we are all wiped off from the Earth by this pandemic virus?...what would we leave behind?..."

Congratulations to David Gomez for winning the People’s Choice Award in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition for his work of “Isolated”. For the first seven days after the ARC Salon Competition results posted to the ARC website, we asked out viewership to vote for their favorite works. Each visitor was able to vote for up to ten works but could only vote once for any given work. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and a full page in our 15th International ARC Salon Competition publication to be published by ACC Art Books. Thank you to all those who voted for the People's Choice Award.

To view the ARC Salon Competition results click here. 

ARC Living Master Patricia Watwood is hosting free live demos on Facebook. The Winter Sessions are composed of 10 demonstrations shown live every Wednesday at 11am - 12:30pm EST. This series will focus on the structures of the eyes, nose and mouth.

To watch the demos, visit the Patricia Watwood Studio page on Facebook.

ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides will be holding a solo exhibition of her works at the Customs House Museum 200 South 2nd Street, Clarksville, TN 37040 from January 19 - March 31, 2021. Featured in the Museum’s Orgain and Bruner galleries, the show includes still life and interior scenes, as well as a suite of figurative pieces that focus on the quiet moments in the artist's home and studio.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here.

The Art Renewal Center is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 15th International ARC Salon Competition! This year the ARC received 4,941 entries from 83 countries. For the first time we introduced a semi-finalist round and are presenting both finalists and semi-finalists in these competition results, as we are proud to host the images of all these works for public view. 40% of entries, which translates as 1,977 works, qualified as semi-finalists, which is in and of itself a great accomplishment, as there were a large number of very fine works that did not qualify as semi-finalists. Our ARC Salon Finalists comprise of a select group of the very top-rated entries, 1,155 works in all, or 23% of entries. ARC has acquired 11 new works for the ARC collection, valued at over $140,000. Our highest award, Best in Show, which is a $25,000 prize, has gone to Robert Liberace (USA) for his entry of "Spartan". "Spartan" has also won an ARC Purchase Award with an additional prize amount. 208 awards and honorable mentions have been given out.

VIEW THE FULL RESULTS

The winners, finalists and semi-finalists of the 15th ARC Salon will be published on the Art Renewal Center website, www.artrenewal.org, on January 13th. Only five days away! The ARC Salon Competition is the largest competition in the world for representational art including painting, drawing and sculpting.

Nearly 5,000 entries were received from 83 countries. We are thrilled and excited to share with the world the tremendous talent and astounding winners of this year’s competition.

For the first seven days the results are live on the ARC website, January 13 – January 19th, we will be holding an election for our People's Choice Award! Visitors to the ARC website are able to vote for up to 10 of their favorite finalist or winning works. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and a full page in the 15th edition of the ARC Salon Book, 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, www.artrenewal.org, 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 of this final award will be revealed on January 22nd, 2021.

ARC is pleased to welcome the Academy of Realist Art Mexico as a new ARC Approved Atelier!

The Academy of Realist Art Mexico (ARAM) opened its doors in the city of Querétaro in January 2020, with the aim of bringing to Mexico a professional teaching of classical-realist art focused on drawing, painting and sculpture.

ARAM seeks to offer its students the highest level of knowledge by developing a strong technique based on methodologies used in the 19th Century European Academies. ARAM carefully designed a program that teaches students through observation, analysis, and practice to achieve skilled-eyed artists capable of expressing creativity.

To learn more, please click here. 

ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron is featured in the Colored Pencil Magazine, with her drawing ‘Iona and Cocoa’ selected for the cover of January 2021 Issue. Inside there is a 6-page article about Svetlana and her original portrait drawing technique which combines the Renaissance ‘trois crayons’ approach with the use of pastel.

For more info and to purchase please go to www.coloredpencilmag.com.

ARC Living Master Mary Pettis will be holding a live interview and demonstration on Friday, January 8th with publisher Eric Rhoads. We will be talking about the value of memory training in landscape painting, followed by a brief demonstration.

The interview will begin on Friday, January 8, 2020 at 11am CST / 12pm EST.

To access the video, please visit YouTube @Streamline Art Video  or Facebook @Eric Rhoads, Publisher.

The winners, finalists and semi-finalists of the 15th ARC Salon will be published on the Art Renewal Center website, www.artrenewal.org, on January 13th. Only nine days away! The ARC Salon Competition is the largest competition in the world for representational art including painting, drawing and sculpting.

Nearly 5,000 entries were received from 83 countries. We are thrilled and excited to share with the world the tremendous talent and astounding winners of this year’s competition.

For the first seven days the results are live on the ARC website, January 13 – January 19th, we will be holding an election for our People's Choice Award! Visitors to the ARC website are able to vote for up to 10 of their favorite finalist or winning works. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and a full page in the 15th edition of the ARC Salon Book, 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, www.artrenewal.org, 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 of this final award will be revealed on January 22nd, 2021.