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Study at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK with two American Master Artists. Choose one or both. BACAA/Jon deMartin The Elements of Classical Drawing the Human Figure: https://tinyurl.com/2dh2 ...

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PoetsArtists has published a commemorative catalogue of the artworks chosen by eminent Art Advisor, writer, speaker, and former Chief Curator from the IBEX Collection, Kiki Kim. The catalogue features ...

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ARC Living Master Katsu Nakajima is holding his largest solo exhibition to date. A total of 80 works will be exhibited, including 20 large works, as well as small portraits, landscapes, still lifes&nb ...

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Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers, founded and directed by Emilio Longo, have recently published a video which documents the late Minnesotan artist-teacher, R ...

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Immersive 3-month courses with renewable enrolmentThe teaching is based on drawing, then progresses to oil painting, and aims for a level of excellence in contemporary classical realist art. Teaching ...

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16 March, 2023

Unleashing a bolt of artistic energy into the Philadelphia art scene, Rising Voices 2 features over 40 realist paintings by some of the nation’s most promising women artists. The exhibition features t ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Mary Kay West as our newest Associate Living Master! Mary Kay is a native of Asheville, North Carolina.  She was encouraged from the earliest age to express her creative ...

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Pastels From Millet to Redon will revolve around eight major themes highlighting the revival of pastel from the second half of the 19th century.   The exhibition will display the evolution o ...

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi was primarily known for his etchings, but he was also an accomplished and versatile draftsman. The Morgan Library holds the largest and most important collection of Piranesi ...

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ARC Living Master Robert Liberace will be teaching a two-week studio workshop in Dedham Vale, one of the UK’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, about an hour from London. Rob, internationally known ...

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The apprenticeship is based on drawing before approaching oil painting, and aims for a level of excellence in contemporary classical realist art. The support is individual, adjusted in consultation wi ...

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Join the ARC Approved Swedish Academy of Realist Art on YouTube Live from SARA Academy and meet SARA co-founder Hans-Peter Szameit, rector Lena Olsson and students Ashlym Miles and Alexander Hedström ...

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Florence Classical Arts Academy - April 11 – September 29,  2023 This course is designed for people who would like to receive the foundation training in Visual Arts and is held in Florence and op ...

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Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed is the world’s first exhibition devoted to an important, talented and largely forgotten painter known as the Master of the Countess of Warwick. This excit ...

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16 February, 2023

ARC Living Master Shane Wolf will be doing his first-ever livestream alla prima figure painting demo in association with Workshops in Yorkshire on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, from 6 - 9 PM GMT (London t ...

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17 February, 2023

Emilio Longo, Founder and Director of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers, has recently published a text interview with Minnesotan Modern-Classical Realist pain ...

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The AdA apprenticeship program offers specialized skill-based classical training for people wanting to learn to draw and paint, and who are looking to achieve a level of excellency in Contemporary Rea ...

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From the sacred to the irreverent, see the exhibition that Artnet News called a “visual buffet.” Visit the Dallas Museum of Art to discover the history and development of art in Flanders during the fi ...

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The first major UK exhibition to explore the exceptional talents of the Renaissance master Donatello, arguably the greatest sculptor of all time. Experience a fresh vision of the artist and his influe ...

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The Montclair Art Museum is pleased to present a significant new installation of its world-renowned George Inness collection.  For the first time at MAM, Inness’s work is displayed in a salon-sty ...

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9 February, 2023

Never before has anyone been able to see so many of Johannes Vermeer's paintings in one exhibition. The Rijksmuseum will bring most of Vermeer's paintings together from all over the world. T ...

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Join the ARC Approved Princeton Academy of Art and Leon Okun for a week-long portrait painting master class. Okun's painting style merges the traditional European classical approach with the bold colo ...

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Drawing transformed radically in 19th-century France, expanding from a means of artistic training to an independent medium with rich potential for exploration and experimentation. A variety of materia ...

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This installation considers how artists working in early Renaissance Italy, late Georgian Britain, and nineteenth-century Europe and America sought new approaches to record and shape visual imagery. S ...

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The ARC Approved  AdA apprenticeship program offers specialized skill-based classical training for people wanting to learn to draw-paint, and who are looking to achieve a level of excellency ...

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Results for the People's Choice Award in the 16th International ARC Salon Competition are in! 12,626 votes were cast by 5,989 registered members. The winning work, Sister in the Maze of Flowers, by Si ...

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Applications for the Madrid Academy of Art (MAA) scholarship are now open!! The MAA scholarship is open to all creative-minded individuals who are passionate about pursuing a career in art. We we ...

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Sotheby’s is pleased to present Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now, a celebration of works realized and inspired by William Bouguereau, one of the leading Academic painters of the late-19th centu ...

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The class will begin with short 1 day poses to learn the block in process. This will be followed by a long pose over the course of the class where students will go through the whole process from light ...

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Denmark in the nineteenth century experienced the disastrous fallout of the Napoleonic Wars, the devastating bombardment of Copenhagen, bankruptcy, and mounting antagonism with Germany. Yet, this soci ...

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It’s never too late to start your training. Explore ARC Approved Studio Incamminati's facilities, flexible enrollment options, and watch faculty demonstrations. Join the faculty, staff, and Dean of Fi ...

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Dates - Saturdays, January 21 – March 25, 2023Time- 10 am – 2 pmLevels/Ages- All levels welcome; ages 15+Location - Lyme Academy of Fine Arts84 Lyme StreetOld Lyme, CT 06371 This class will introduce ...

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11 January, 2023

Congratulations to ARC Living Master Chad Fisher for becoming the new Charlotte Colby Danly Sculpture Chair at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts! This appointment marks a bold step in the Lyme Academy’s m ...

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Dates - Friday, February 24th & Sunday, 26th, 2023 Time- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Location - Kline Academy of Art, 3264 Motor Ave, LA 90034 Historically, copper supports were for many art ...

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The Art Renewal Center is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 16th International ARC Salon Competition. The ARC received over 5,400 entries from 75 countries. The competition has been ...

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22 December, 2022

The winners of the 16th International ARC Salon Competition will be announced on January 2, 2023. The ARC received over 5,400 entries from 75 countries; 40%, 2,152 works have been selected as semi-fin ...

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Ten paintings from The Frick Collection in New York will be on display at the Mauritshuis. This will be a one-time opportunity to view this selection of paintings in Europe, which (with one exception) ...

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This exhibition explores aspects of the lived experience of being an artist in New York City during the 1870s and 1880s, an era of rapid socio-economic change. Drawing largely from the MET's American ...

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20 December, 2022

In his day, Reni was one of the most successful and celebrated painters in all of Europe, coveted by the most important patrons, including the Borghese Pope Paul V, the Duke of Mantua, and the Queen o ...

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14 December, 2022

ARC Living Master Joke Frima will be among the artists exhibiting in "De Figuratieven 2022". The exhibit shows works that all have a basis in realism, but are executed in various styles, from classica ...

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2 December, 2022

Free and open to the public!  Meet the manufacturers who make your favorite art materials. Ask questions about the materials and archival processes.  The art materials will be on sale at hig ...

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Congratulations to ARC Living Master Vicki Sullivan for being a finalist in the AME Bale Art Prize for Painting for her work "My Sister, My Friend". The exhibition runs from November 29- December 18, ...

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Winter Enrollment Intensive Program - January 30, 2023  - July 22, 2023  Summer Intake Intensive - April 11, 2023 - September 29, 2023 (with a break in August)​ Fall Enro ...

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30 November, 2022

The ARC Approved Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) is holding an exhibition including works by instructors and founders of the school and gallery. "Collectively, the artists participating in t ...

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A leading figure in the art of Renaissance Venice, Vittore Carpaccio is best known for his large, spectacular narrative paintings that brought sacred history to life. Although for centuries he ha ...

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For hundreds of years, artists have been inspired by the imaginative potential of fantasy. Unlike science fiction, which is based on fact, fantasy presents an impossible reality—a universe where drago ...

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Never presented before in France, the work of the visionary William Morris strongly marked his time by theorizing a social, political, ecological and artistic utopia and by laying the foundations of w ...

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11 November, 2022

Plaster drawing casts for sale. Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Kendall is making affordable plaster casts for art students, teachers, and collectors. Fill your studio and home with work by history's g ...

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ARC Associate Living Masters Ana Schmidt and Kazuya Ushioda will be among the artists exhibiting in "Something More Than Realism... XVI". Artelibre gallery for more than 25 years has supported realism ...

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The American Artists Professional League’s 94th annual Grand National Exhibition offers museum-quality work from some of the finest artists working in their field. Most works of art will be for sale. ...

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Johann Gottfried Schadow was seen as the founder of the Berlin School of sculpture. Schadow came to epitomize German Neoclassicism, with his life-size double statue of Princesses Louise and Frederica ...

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This exhibition of Dutch drawings includes figure studies by Rembrandt van Rijn and Ferdinand Bol, rare landscapes by Cornelis Vroom and Jacques de Gheyn II, and botanicals by Maria Sibylla Merian and ...

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Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools offers a look into the specific subjects and styles adopted by artists in the Southern Netherlands between the 15th and 17th centuries, providing important connectio ...

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The Art Renewal Center is pleased to announce that the roster of finalists competing in the 16th International ARC Salon Competition has posted. We received over 5,400 entries this year from 75 countr ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome AdA (Art d'Apprendre) as new ARC Approved Atelier! AdA offers workshops and a full-time three year skill based training art program. For AdA founder Joke Frima, it takes skil ...

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This special installation will feature five Victorian masterpieces from the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. The exceptional loans include the iconic Flaming June by Frederic L ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome San Francisco High School of the Arts - HSArts Visual Arts Program as a new ARC Approved atelier! The goal of the HSArts Visual Arts Program is to provide students with profe ...

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England under the volatile Tudor dynasty was a thriving home for the arts. An international community of artists and merchants, many of them religious refugees, navigated the high-stakes demands of ro ...

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Arts and Crafts pottery maker William De Morgan and Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan lived in harmony as married artists in Victorian England. A power couple, they encouraged one another’s crea ...

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20 October, 2022

A major international event, this exhibition honors the exceptional, innovative and inspiring artist, Rosa Bonheur on the bicentenary of her birth. She was known as an icon of the emancipation of wome ...

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With over one hundred of the most acclaimed and iconic pieces in American art on display, the exhibition takes viewers on a journey across time, medium, and identity. Organized by theme—portraiture, h ...

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12 October, 2022

ARC is pleased to welcome Rogue Classical Atelier as a new ARC Approved Atelier! Rogue Classical Atelier was established in 2007 and is a bustling educational atelier with two locations in the Souther ...

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12 October, 2022

Only about 35 paintings by Johannes Vermeer are known today. The National Gallery owns four works by or attributed to this beloved 17th-century Dutch artist: Woman Holding a Balance, A Lady Writing, G ...

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The eminent landscape painter Joseph Rebell was born in Vienna in 1787 and worked from 1813 in Naples and Rome. His paintings were held in high esteem among art-interested audiences across E ...

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6 October, 2022

Celebrated as the leading society portraitist of his era, John Singer Sargent influenced a generation of American painters. His personal captivation with Spain resulted in a remarkable body of work th ...

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5 October, 2022

Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present Parallel Disasters, an exhibition of paintings. Tornados engulfing the skies above familiar suburban landscapes, ...

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ArtNet News has recently published an article highlighting ARC's role in the resurgence of interest in Realist art. This article has come out in connection to the seven paintings currently on sale at ...

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The Durand-Hedden House presents "Sunday in the Park with Asher", a plein air painting event on Sunday October 2nd (rain day the following Sunday Oct. 9th). Enjoy this special one-day community event ...

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28 September, 2022

This exhibition features original works by 13 students of the ARC Approved Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism (RGCR), resurrecting the lost skills of the traditional atelier approach to art: a ...

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28 September, 2022

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood revolutionized British painting traditions. But many more artists worked in their orbit than are often recognized. Overshadowed by famous peers, artists such as Barbara ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the 15th International ARC ...

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22 September, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Living Master Thomas Kegler for winning The Spirit of the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Award in the 41st Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show. His painting "By the Light, Psalms 75: ...

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22 September, 2022

This exhibition, conceived in collaboration with the Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz” in Winterthur (Switzerland), is the first to explore the artistic beginnings of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1 ...

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The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in d ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Mary Ross Buchholz will be participating in the 39th Annual Roundup Art Exhibition & Sale at the Museum of Western Art. This invitational exhibition features 135 works ...

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The Art Renewal Center is pleased to announce that the roster of semi-finalists competing in the 16th International ARC Salon Competition has posted. We received over 5,400 entries this year from ...

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Approximately sixty works by Johann Heinrich Füssli (better known as Henry Fuseli), artist of the imaginary, grotesque, and the sublime, will be on view in Paris in the first monographic exhibition of ...

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This exhibition is the largest gathering of Murillo’s paintings in the United States in 20 years. While Spanish Golden Age painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is primarily known for his representations ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the 15th International ARC ...

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  The FCAA has created its first online program for classical painting and drawing that is not subscription-based but is a full-rounded course which takes you from basic knowledge to dr ...

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Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, seeks a Managing Director to start on or before December 1, 2022. Lyme Academy is an Academy of professional artists that encourages individuality a ...

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On display is a selection of eight works by Francisco Pradilla housed in the Museum. Together with the large painting Doña Juana la Loca and her sketch, exhibited in room 75, these works will enable t ...

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The ARC Scholarship Fund has awarded $31,000 in direct scholarships to aid students at ARC Approved™ art academy and atelier schools. This year our top prize, The Brian Yoder Memorial Scholarship Awar ...

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The Vosler Young Artists' Studio has added new Adult classes in Figure Drawing with Yeats Ihrig and Portrait drawing with Kerry Vosler. Both drawing classes will focus on structural, anatomical landma ...

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Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Venice was a major artistic hub for American and European artists. This exhibition features paintings, etchings and 3-dimensional objects tha ...

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For the first time in the UK, an overview of the work of Winslow Homer will be presented. Homer confronted the leading issues facing the United States and its relationship with both Europe and the Car ...

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We are pleased to announce that the winners of the 22nd ARC Scholarship will be posted to the ARC website on Friday, September 2, 2022. The ARC Scholarship Competition is devoted to supporti ...

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The Guild of Boston Artists is proud to present this year's New England Regional Juried Exhibition at it's gallery on 162 Newbury St, Boston, MA from September 3 - October 1, 2022. Each year, the exhi ...

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25 August, 2022

This exhibition is a tribute to Signorina Nerina Simi. Works by former Studio Simi students will be exhibited in Villa Bertelli, Viale Giuseppe Mazzini 200, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, 55042 Italy from Se ...

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To commemorate the post-renovation reopening of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and in collaboration with the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, this exhibition traces the development of mo ...

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Juliette Aristides teaches the classical methods in her online intensive atelier.  Start your art training this Fall! The Atelier program is a sequential curriculum led with live instruction by J ...

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15 August, 2022

Congratulations to ARC Living Master Vicki Sullivan, and Associate Living Masters Jaq Grantford, Elizabeth Barden, and Anne-Marie Zanetti for being selected as finalists in the Kennedy Prize. The Kenn ...

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Joanna Hiffernan’s close professional and personal relationship with artist James McNeill Whistler lasted more than two decades—yet who was she? She is featured in numerous works by Whistler, includin ...

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September 26 - December 9Taught remotely from the Florence campus November 28 - December 9 In-person option in Florence If you would like to write with mastery about figurative art, or simply further ...

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9 August, 2022

The first major retrospective of Sickert at Tate in over 60 years, this exhibition explores how he had an often radical, distinctive approach to setting and subject matter. From working off detailed s ...

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This exhibition explores the importance of nature in Catalan art. With a focus on the 19th century Romantic Movement which was spreading throughout Europe at that time, a selection of about& ...

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For the English Romantic painter, watercolorist and printmaker, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the elements of nature are abstract forces, with their own symbolism and meaning. This exhibi ...

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Pastels enjoyed considerable popularity in the 18th century when many works were created, especially in France. But what are the reasons behind the technique’s blossom at the time, what advantages did ...

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2 August, 2022

ARC Associate Living Master Debra Keirce won Best in Show for her painting "Nurdles and Ghost Nets and Flotsam" (Clean Up in Hawaii) in the U.S. Coast Guard Art Program. Thirty-eight works by 27 artis ...

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An exhibition of the winning works in ModPortrait will be on view at the MEAM, 5 Carrer de la Barra de Ferro, Barcelona 08003, Spain from July 1 - September 22, 2022. ModPortrait is the international ...

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