Posts for August, 2021

The article Bargue Encore, by Peter Trippi, has recently been added to the ARC website.

"For anyone interested in traditional art instruction, 19th century culture, or even just superb printmaking, 2021 is now a year of historical and educational significance. After decades of research and planning, the Bargue Encore project has launched with the publication of 10 exquisite lithographs that replicate 10 of the plates in Charles Bargue’s legendary Cours de Dessin, or Drawing Course. The visionaries who have guided this effort to completion are Daniel Graves, director and founder of the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, and Pierre Alloueteau, director and founder of Signus Publishing in southwestern Switzerland."

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Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With an ever-expanding collection of casts, he would like to give people a chance to fill their studio or home with beautiful objects from some of history's greatest sculptors.

To view and inquire about the entire collection, please visit fountainheadcasts.com, DM @fountainheadgipsoteca on Instagram, or email justinryankendall@gmail.com directly.

The ARC Scholarship Competition is devoted to supporting students whose works reflect the concept of traditional and contemporary realism. We received entries from students from around the world this past May. The results will be announced on Friday, September 10th, on the ARC Website. $30,000 in scholarship funds to students attending ARC Approved Schools will be awarded.  This year we are introducing the Brian Yoder Memorial Scholarship, which will be an ongoing award in the ARC Scholarship Competition. This award will go to one student as the top prize winner of the competition. Brian Yoder (1961–2021) was a founder of the Art Renewal Center, served as its webmaster for many years and stayed a member of our staff as a technical advisor until his passing. In addition, we will be offering The AAPL Award. The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) is dedicated to the advancement of traditional realism in American fine art, through the promotion of high standards of beauty, integrity and craftsmanship in painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. This $2,000 award amount has been generously donated to the Art Renewal Center by the AAPL.

The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) is pleased to announce the 93rd consecutive Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club of New York. The in-person Exhibition and virtual show honors the finest in representational and traditional realism art. The Exhibition and virtual show are open to all American and US based artists in the fields of oil, water-media, pastel, graphics and sculpture.
Application Dates: Jul 1, 2021 - Sep 26, 2021

Notification Date: Oct 12, 2021

AAPL members: $40.00 for first entry, $25.00 for each additional entry up to three.

Non-members: $70.00 for first entry, $40.00 for each additional entry up to three.

The exhibit will be November 8 - 19, 2021, with Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine as the Awards Judge.

The American Artists Professional League is one of the oldest fine art organizations in the United States. Almost one hundred years later, the organization continues to maintain its base in New York City, at the fabled Salmagundi Club on 5th Avenue.

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After four decades of unbroken use as a museum and exhibition space, the Neue Pinakothek (rebuilt in its current form in the 1970s) has had to shut its doors for extensive renovation and modernization work due to last several years. During this period, selected major works of 19th century painting and sculpture from its collection will be on display in the Alte Pinakothek and at the Sammlung Schack. Selected highlights range from key works of Neoclassicism and Romanticism to the dawn of Modernism.

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To see more exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Nathaniel Skousen, winner of the PoetsArtists Magazine award in the 15th International ARC Salon, has recently had an interview published in PoetsArtists.

"I am always venturing out of my creative process to find new ideas from color to composition. I believe the artist has a spiritual side and ideas will come if one is available to listen. Many times we as artists are tempted to think, I am happy where I am at, and it is easy to stop asking questions about our creative process. When the artistic mind is available to be nurtured and tuned in these artistic voices then ideas will arrive and can become reality... "

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Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828), José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913), and Enrique Chagoya (American, born 1953) examine their respective cultures through printmaking to establish a visual dialogue about the shared human condition.

Work from all three artists will be on display at the Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford, CT 06103 from April 23 – November 7, 2021.

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As much admired as he is controversial, Napoleon Bonaparte is a complex figure. On the occasion of the bicentenary of his death, the Rmn - Grand Palais, La Villette and Re Re / Adonis are offering a spectacular exhibition, providing a true portrait of a fascinating character who has shaped France today.

More than 150 masterpieces created under the Empire on loan from numerous museums are gathered together for the first time. Exceptional objects that belonged to Napoleon and contemporary creations follow one another in a chronological and educational course.

The exhibition runs from May 28 - December 19, 2021 at the Grande Halle de la Villette, 211 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France.

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To learn about more events and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.