25 March, 2015
Recently, the Da Vinci Initiative partnered with the Washington Art Education Association (the Board of Art Education for the State of Washington) to offer a free weekend retreat for art teachers. The ...
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5 June, 2015
There is still time to register for Da Vinci Initiative Summer Workshops!The Southern Atelier in Sarasota, FL will be hosting a Drawing for Educators workshop with Charles Miano from June 12-14, 2015. ...
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The Da Vinci Initiative is working with the State Art Education Associations, Boards of Art Education in the 50 states, to set up three DVI-sponsored skill-based retreats each year. For the 2014-201 ...
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19 June, 2015
Clock hours, undergraduate and graduate college credits are available for the DVI’s first online course, Introduction to Advanced Observational Drawing, through a partnership with The Heritage Institu ...
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20 October, 2017
The Da Vinci Initiative offers online instruction through video courses. The most recent online course is Charles Bargue in the 21st Century. This course takes you from start to finish in creating a d ...
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22 December, 2014
We are happy to announce that The Da Vinci Initiative's first online course, Introduction to Advanced Observational Drawing, has been officially released. All individuals who pre-ordered the cours ...
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9 January, 2015
We are happy to announce that The Da Vinci Initiative's first online course, Introduction to Advanced Observational Drawing, has been officially released. This class is an advanced observational dr ...
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25 July, 2014
The Board of Art Education in the State of Washington, the Washington Art Education Association (WAEA), has just officially endorsed The Da Vinci Initiative. The Da Vinci Initiative has been working ...
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3 October, 2014
"The stone has been thrown. The splash is being made and as the repercussions arc across the surface of the representational revolution, they are intercepted as inspiration, as ideas, and The Da Vin ...
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12 September, 2016
An article about The Da Vinci Initiative, ARC’s sister organization, dedicated to K-12 art teachers and students, was published in the most recent, October, issue of Fine Art Connoisseur, titled "Equi ...
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24 September, 2014
Register now for DVI workshops this winter. Each workshop is geared towards art educators and will be held at Gage Academy, home of the Juliette Aristides Atelier, in Seattle, Washington. The first ...
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14 August, 2014
February 22-23, 2015 at the Ani Art Academy WaichulisBear Creek Twp., PA This two-day workshop will explore several aspects of visual perception and language development to uncover an incredibly eff ...
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2 April, 2015
The Da Vinci Initiative recently partnered with The Washington Art Education Association to send Mandy Hallenius, DVI President, to Washington D.C. to lobby for art education funding as part of Arts ...
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7 October, 2015
The Da Vinci Initiative, an ARC Allied Organization™, focusing on K-12 art education, was honored to have co-founder Mandy Hallenius invited as the the keynote speaker at the Idaho Art Education A ...
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13 February, 2018
This exhibition highlights the extensive artistic and aesthetic exchanges between Dutch and French painters from the reign of Napoleon to the beginning of the twentieth century. Starting in the Firs ...
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12 August, 2014
Running through September 21st, Dürer's Women features over fifty of works from the Cleveland Museum of Art's distinguished collection of Dürer's prints and considers the artist's multivalent depict ...
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21 December, 2017
This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world’s finest private collections containing over 400 works on paper. Assembled over the last ...
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15 September, 2016
ARC Living Master™ Julio Reyes will be among the artists exhibiting drawings in the show "Drawn To Greatness", which runs from September 17 - September 29, 2016.The opening reception takes place on Se ...
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25 July, 2016
ARC Living Master™ Gordon Hanley is holding an exhibition of 37 drawings in 24ct. gold and silver on paper at the Richard Randall Gallery - Mt. Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Brisbane, Australia from Augus ...
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20 October, 2016
More than 90 drawings and 27 paintings by such renowned Golden Age masters as Aelbert Cuyp, Pieter Jansz Saenredam, and Rembrandt van Rijn reveal the many ways Dutch artists used preliminary drawings ...
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26 May, 2015
Curated by artist Colleen Barry, NUDE convenes twenty-five leaders of contemporary realism for a drawing show that celebrates the human form. Exhibited works will display a cross-section of styles, re ...
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10 November, 2017
The Florence Academy of Art announces “Drawing on the Masters", an art auction fundraiser to benefit The Florence Academy of Art education programs.
Drawing on the Masters takes pla ...
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19 November, 2014
Although appropriate for anyone wanting to increase their technical drawing skills, this weekend workshop is geared for art teachers. Participants will be introduced to a 19th century drawing curricul ...
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For more than a decade, Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art, has been a leader in the growing contemporary realist art movement. Founded by the late Nelson Shanks and his wife Leon ...
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16 February, 2016
ARC Living Artist™ Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi is an accomplished artist who has exhibited in national and international juried competitions. This exhibition will showcase his portraits, still lives and ...
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26 October, 2016
ARC Associate Living Master™ Doug Zider will be holding a solo show of paintings and prints called "My Long Island" at the Kaiser Gallery, Molloy College - 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre, New ...
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16 May, 2018
ARC Living MasterTM Donato Giancola will be holding an open studio on Saturday, May 19, 2018 10 am - 6 pm at Donato Arts located on 397 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
Scores of works, new and ...
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9 June, 2016
Motor Scooter by Jeffrey LarsonARC Living Master™ Jeffrey Larson is holding an exhibition featuring oil paintings of exquisitely rendered domestic views, figures, and objects. This is the firs ...
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21 April, 2015
On April 1st and 2nd, The Da Vinci Initiative (DVI) hosted its first district wide workshop at the Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City. DVI President, Mandy Hallenius, worked with Florence Academy In ...
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27 October, 2007
A GoodArt post by Fred Ross:I do not dismiss Impressionism.Impressionism is a valid technique for making works of art. But it is only one of a number of possible techniques.Depending ...
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8 January, 2013
This show, which was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, will run from Feb. 20 through Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013 at the New Hampshire Institute of the Arts . This exh ...
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10 January, 2014
Is open now through February 9, 2014 at The Arkell Museum - 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie, New York 13317
Dinosaur Parade by James Gurney"Inspired by a deep and abiding interest in archaeology, lo ...
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15 August, 2014
"Although Social Realist painters emerged in countries throughout America and Europe at the time, each with their own distinguishing factors, in England, Frank Holl was very prominent for this type ...
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29 August, 2018
Renowned as a giant of French Romantic painting, Eugène Delacroix was equally a dedicated and an innovative draftsman. Through a selection of more than one hundred works on paper—from finished water ...
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5 August, 2016
In the 15th century, Luca della Robbia invented a glazing technique for sculpture characterized by brilliant opaque whites and deep cerulean blues. The exhibition features about 50 objects, some never ...
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23 June, 2014
"WILMINGTON, Del. --The Delaware Art Museum lost its accreditation and its ability to receive loaned works from many museums Wednesday, one day after the museum sold one of its most famous Pre-Rapha ...
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17 February, 2017
First Place WinnerSulphur Springs Minature ShowGuinness by Debra KeirceARC Living Artist™ Debra Keirce has recently been accepted as a member of the prestigious Copley Society of Art, which is the old ...
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20 August, 2018
ARC Living Artist™
Debra Keirce's painting "Red White and Blue" has recently been acquired by the Customs House Museum located on 200 S 2nd St, Clarksville, TN 37040.
The wor ...
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28 February, 2017
ARC Living Artist™ Debra Keirce is exhibiting her painting "Victory" in the show "Map Your World". The exhibition takes place on February 17 - March 12, 2017 at the Franklin Park Arts Center - 36441 B ...
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22 September, 2008
David Jermann has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™.Visit the David Jermann GalleryCompote with Fruitby David Jermann ...
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4 December, 2015
The Fat of the Land, by David Cheifetz, which won an honorable mention in the landscape category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition has now sold. The painting is a part of the first live exhibiti ...
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2 April, 2014
Finding the Gold by David BowersARC Living Master™ David Bowers is being featured in a solo show that opens April 11, 2014Palm Avenue Fine Art - 10 South Palm Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34236To view ...
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27 May, 2009
David Bowers is now an ARC Living Master™. ...Bowers' paintings incorporate modern themes and ideas. There is always a message in his work. For him the idea is the most challenging and rewarding ...
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18 November, 2014
Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ David Bowers for winning Best in Show for his painting, “After the Bath” at the 9th Annual International Guild of Realism (IGOR) exhibition.The IGOR exhib ...
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21 March, 2016
ARC Living Master™ David Bowers has recently had an article published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine."I am often inspired by an image that I see and my painting materializes from that image. It will ...
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Dear Mr. Ross,My husband hasn't start complaining yet... But if he does, you will be guilty as charged! For since I discovered your wesite, less than a week ago, I've been spending hours and hou ...
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13 September, 2018
Organized by The Butler Institute of American Art, this retrospective showcases the realist art of ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene. It will include a range of work from paintings created in the 197 ...
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30 September, 2016
Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene for winning the Founder's Award in the 2016 Pastel Society of America's competition for his painting "Wool Spindles, Silk and Moire". This is the ...
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21 July, 2017
ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene will discuss his creative journey in art in addition to his evolution over a career that spans 65 years. Daniel Greene is one of America’s leading figure, portra ...
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26 March, 2015
ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene will be having solo exhibition of new paintings entitled “At the Auction” from April 2 - 25, 2015. The paintings depict the moments of drama that occur in the high- ...
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26 September, 2007
GAMESA showing of works by ARC Master Daniel GreeneGallery Henoch555 West 25th StreetNYC, NY 10001917-305-0003October 11- November 3, 2007 ...
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Portrait of Jessie
by Daniel GreeneCongratulations to ARC Living Masters™ Daniel Greene and Nelson Shanks for having their work featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal. The article titl ...
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21 July, 2015
ARC Allied Organization™, Suggested Donation, conducted an interview with ARC Living Master™ and head of the ARC Approved™ Florence Academy of Art, Daniel Graves.
To listen to the podcast, please cli ...
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19 March, 2007
Daniel Graves, founder and director of the Florence Academy of Art will have his first one-man exhibition at Eleanor Ettinger Gallery March 8, 2007 - April 1, 2007. ...
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7 April, 2008
Daniel Graves and the Florence Academy of Art, an ARC Approved™ Atelier, has received the Excellence in Art Education Award 2008 from the Portrait Society of America. The Excellence in Art Educatio ...
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12 April, 2018
ARC Living Master tm Daniel Gerhartz is holding an exhibition of thirty-one paintings. It is the artist's first major retrospective. It includes many new, never before seen works.
"H ...
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20 February, 2008
ARC Living Master, Daniel E. Green will be teaching at the Bravura Academy in southern Spain Nov 9-15, 2008 Click here for more info.Mr. Green is the first place winner in the Landscape category of t ...
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2 May, 2008
Dana Levin, Director of the ARC Approved Atelier: The New School of Classical Realism, has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™Visit the Dana Levin GalleryHydrangea and Winterberriesby Dana Le ...
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11 January, 2011
by Dan ThompsonARC Approved™ Southern Atelier in Sarasota, Florida, presents ARC Living Master™ Dan ThompsonJanuary 14-17, 2011 - 9:30-4PMThis workshop is designed for drawing or painting ...
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20 July, 2007
Dan Thompson, artist, teacher and co-founder of Grand Central Academy of Art has been approved as an ARC Master.Look for Dan's ARC Masters Gallery in the upcoming weeks.Dan will be teaching a 10-day w ...
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Dan Thompson, color theorist, will give a live portrait demonstration on American Artist On-Line Magazine, Wednesday, June 13 at 3pm PST/ 12pm ESTPlease register prior to the chat at www.myamericanart ...
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19 January, 2010
Damien Bartoli (1947 – 2009)The Art Renewal Center® has some extremely sad news to report. Damien Bartoli, the Bouguereau biographer, who worked with ARC Chairman, Fred Ross M.A. and Dr. Ve ...
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28 February, 2010
The Art Renewal Center® has some extremely sad news to report. Damien Bartoli, the Bouguereau biographer, who worked with ARC Chairman, Fred Ross M.A. and Dr. Vern Swanson to produce the first c ...
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14 November, 2013
The Dahesh Museum purchased Frederick Lord Leighton's Star of Bethlehem on Friday, November 8, 2013, at the Sotheby's auction of 19th-Century European art. The Museum owns three other paintings by t ...
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19 March, 2013
Encountering the Orient: Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art will run from March 27 to April 15, 2013.
This exhibition re-examines 19th-century European Orientalism to give a fuller understandi ...
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7 July, 2011
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that was lost for centuries has been authenticated by distinguished scholars and conservators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ...
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10 October, 2014
"It's no secret that art instruction in public schools is hurting-not only for funding, but for applicable skills.The problem often starts at the top. Students may have the desire to learn to draw, ...
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20 November, 2017
DaVinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience announces its New York City debut at the Triad Theater. Mark Rodgers, Curator of the DaVinci Machines and Michelangelo Exhibitions for North America, ...
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10 May, 2013
Four museum exhibitions will be closing on May 19th, 2013. The first is The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY which focuses on British late 18th cent ...
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ARC Approved™Atelier Kewaunee Academy presents KAFA Artistic Director Craig Blietz on 4 consecutive Saturdays:“Portrait Painting” August 8, 15, 22, 29-9am-4pmFor workshop information and regist ...
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11 October, 2018
This exhibition highlights the artwork and enduring kinship of three top landscape and maritime painters ARC Living Masters™ William R. Davis and Joseph McGurl and artist Don Demers.
This event i ...
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10 October, 2016
Abby by Julie BellCurated by IX Arts, an ARC Allied Organization™, Inner Visions brings together over 70 artists covering the gamut of contemporary imaginative realism, showcasing the remarkable ...
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The Arts in Rome Cultural Association, an ARC Approved Atelier, has launched a prize competition for artists, with the aim of promoting and enhancing Contemporary Figurative Art. The main prize is a ...
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4 December, 2014
ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan has placed as a finalist in three categories in one of the largest competitions for realist art in Australia.The A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and A ...
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18 December, 2014
ARC Living Artist™ Sivananda Nyayapathi won the fourth place award in the 2014 Portrait Society of America members only competition for his painting "Cycle of Life".To view more of Sivananda's ...
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12 May, 2015
ARC Associate Living Master™ Sergio Roffo has recently won the Award of Merit in the Annual Juried Exhibition held by the Guild of Boston Artists.The exhibition of works opened May 9th and will contin ...
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6 September, 2012
Special congratulations to ARC Living Master Richard Whitney for landing a major portrait commission from governor Mitt Romney, who is now the Republican candidate for president. About the work, Whitn ...
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21 May, 2015
ARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg has recently won the Grand Prize at the Portrait Society of America Painting Competition for his painting “Pat-Shirtless”.To read the entire Fine Art Connoisseur articl ...
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7 December, 2011
Last week at the National Arts Club in NYC, Associate Living Master Mary Jane Q Cross's work “Breath of Heaven”, was included in the Allied Artists of America catalog as receiving the Florence and ...
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25 October, 2013
ARC Associate Living Master™, Mary Jane Q Cross, has recently won Best in Show in the IGOR Annual Exhibition for her painting titled "Gently Letting Go".Accompanying the 48 x 36 inch oil painting Cr ...
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4 October, 2012
ARC Living Master™ Julio Reyes, Best in Show winner of the 2009/2010 ARC Salon, and Second Place Figurative Winner and Purchase Award Winner in the 2011/2012 ARC Salon, is being featured in thre ...
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1 October, 2014
ARC would like to congratulate ARC Associate Living Master™ Jon Boe Paulsen for winning first place in the 10th Artavita art contest. His winning work will be exhibited at World Wide Art, Los Angel ...
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16 April, 2013
ARC Associate Living Master ™ John Pototschnik recently won "Best of Show" in the Plein Air Southwest Salon. About the award, Pototschnik said the following:"What can I say? While attending the openi ...
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18 March, 2014
Magnum Opus by James Van FossanCongratulations to ARC Associate Living Master™ James Van Fossan, who received the First Place prize at the Collection Beaux-Arts Realiste based in Montreal, Canada fo ...
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23 March, 2015
Irena Korosec, head of the ARC Approved™ Bohemiarte School and Gallery, won first place in the 2014 art competition held by the Portrait Society of Canada.The competition is the only professional on-l ...
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18 June, 2015
ARC Living Artist™ George Hartley won "Best of Show" in the 10th Annual "Art at the Meetinghouse" Regional Art show. The show is being held at the Roxbury Congregational Church, 24 Church St, ...
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19 May, 2015
ARC Living Artist™ Debra Keirce has won Best in Show at the 2015 Prairie Winds 16th National Annual Miniature Show for her 2.5 inch high painting titled “Vanilla”.The work will be on display at the P ...
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28 April, 2011
ARC is proud to announce that Florence, Italy’s Museum Villa Peyron now includes one of our Living Master’s paintings.
Entitled “Annigoni 1954”, it is a portrait of Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988) an I ...
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27 August, 2014
ARC would like to congratulate ARC Living Artist™ Sivananda Nyayapathi for winning first place in the 2014 Summer Juried Exhibition of the Portrait Society of Atlanta for his portrait "Adithi".The P ...
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28 August, 2014
ARC would like to congratulate ARC Living Artist™ Clark Gussin for winning Best in Show for his painting “The Whopper” in the 58th Juried Exhibition at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California.The ...
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Nyayapathi recently won the First Place award in the Portrait Society of Atlanta 2013 Summer Juried Exhibition for his painting of Larry Hall. The juror was ARC Living Master™, Richard Whitney, and th ...
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13 February, 2013
A special congratulations to ARC Living Artist™ Anand PKC, for being featured in an article in the New York Daily News by Tanyanika Samuels.About the article Anand said the following "The two greate ...
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13 January, 2016
ARC Living Master™ Michael John Angel will be conducting a 5 day workshop on Composition and the Art of Still Life.This workshop focuses on the many aspects involved in painting a still life. Students ...
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29 April, 2016
Collection Magazine will be awarding a featured article on one artist's work in the 12th international ARC Salon. Collection Magazine, founded in 1993, has published 252 monthly issues and has the hi ...
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27 August, 2015
Recently, we received a letter from an aspiring artist:I am wondering if the Classical Realism Journal is still being published? I am retiring on August 26, and I am going to start painting again. I ...
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12 February, 2007
The book Classical Drawing Atelier (recently reviewed by ARC) is now available through Amazon.com. It is a fabulous overview of the methods taught in contemporary ateliers and includes a great set of ...
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23 May, 2018
ARC Living MastersTM
Virgil Elliot and
Joke Frima and ARC Associate Living MasterTM
Gezien van de Riet are participating in the Classical Art exhibition associated with the TRAC2018 ...
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14 December, 2015
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this groundbreaking exhibition proposes a new approach to understanding 17th-century Dutch painting. Through 75 carefully selected, beautifully preserved ...
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18 July, 2017
ARC Living Artist™, Clark Gussin, has recently won "Best of Show" for his painting "Block, Tackle, and Defend" in the Greater Bay Area Open Juried Show. The show is taking place at the New Museu ...
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22 November, 2016
We would like to congratulate ARC Living Artist™, Clark Gussin, on his Honorable Mention in the Southwest Art Magazine Artistic Excellence Competition. The painting, "The Farrier Hears the Call ...
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