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ARC Associate Living Master™, Vicki Sullivan, is a finalist in the Rick Amor Drawing Prize exhibition.Rick Amor, an Australian contemporary figurative artist, has generously sponsored this $12,000 acq ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan's work will be displayed in the 2016 A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize Exhibition.The A.M.E Bale Travelling Scholarship and Art Prize are awa ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Vicki Sullivan will be exhibiting her painting "Born to Run" in the National Equine Art Prize Exhibit. The painting has been selected as a finalist and the exhibit will ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan will be displaying two works in the Hidden Faces exhibition of the 2018 Victorian Salon des Refusés. The exhibition will be held on June 11 – ...

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7 June, 2022

More than 100 works of students and teachers of the Academy of Fine Art Germany are on display at the English Church Cultural Center, Ferdinandstrasse 16, 61348 Bad Homburg, Germany. During the openin ...

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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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This landmark exhibition examines the artistic exchanges among Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries from the mid-1650s to around 1680, when they reached the height of their technical ability and ...

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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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Comprising 72 works from the Prado, the Rijksmuseum and 15 other institutions, this exhibition offers a reflection on the traditions of Spanish and Dutch painting from the 17th century. The tr ...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located on 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 is holding an exhibition of Velazquez portraits from now until March 12, 2017.Seven exceptional portraits by Velázquez, ...

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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is the exclusive West Coast destination for Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art. This 10,000 square foot exhibition, comprising one of ...

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21 April, 2023

New York gallery Rehs Contemporary will present the newest body of work from ARC Associate Living Master, Josh Tiessen. Tiessen is an international award-winning artist based in Canada, best know ...

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Vanessa Rothe's Americans in Paris fine art project and painters group adopts one of the gallery's annual theme of fine art and fashion as the AIP artists create all new works inspired by historical f ...

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Van Gogh particularly admired the painterly innovations of the Hague School–a group named for the city in the Netherlands where its core artists lived and worked beginning about 1870. Van Gogh spent t ...

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Van Gogh and His Inspirations is an original exhibition organized by the CMA that brings together a collection of over 30 works by artists who influenced Van Gogh’s aesthetic thinking. These works j ...

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Anthony van Dyck, one of the most celebrated and influential portraitists of all time, enjoyed an international career that took him from his native Flanders to Italy, France, and, ultimately, the c ...

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In the last decade of his life, acclaimed painter Anthony van Dyck began a printmaking project that would change the conventions of portraiture called the Iconography. Presenting several etchings from ...

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VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL ON ARC'S MOST ROMANTIC FINE ART PRINTS On Special: 15% OFF Springtime by Pierre-Auguste Cot and Ravissement of Psyche by William Adolphe Bouguereau Spri ...

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The greatest French follower of Caravaggio, Valentin de Boulogne was one of the most original protagonists of the new, naturalistic painting. This is the first monographic exhibition devoted to Valent ...

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23 September, 2014

Vala Ola with Lost Tribes MonumentClear Vision MonumentARC Living Master™, Vala Ola, has created two monuments that will be displayed in the Rocky Mountains in Avon, Colorado.About the monument “Lo ...

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19 November, 2012

ARC Living Master™ Vala Ola will be showing her work in the upcoming 2012 “Hidden in the Hills” art show, where she will be exhibiting some of her newest works. The show is a prestigious long stand ...

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ARC Living Master™ Vala Ola will be sculpting at the Knox Gallery located in Park Plaza Beaver Creek, 46 Avondale Ln, Beaver Creek, CO 81620 from August 6-7, 2016.Three of Vala Ola's Native Amer ...

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The Victoria and Albert Museum is currently running an exhibition featuring works by Frederick Lord Leighton, Joseph Albert Moore, James Tissot, Edward Burne-Jones, and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ...

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From September 27, 2024, to January 26, 2025, the MEAM museum, Barra de Ferro 5, Barcelona Spain 08003,  will open to the public the exhibition Urbes, Contemporary Landscapes. Arou ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Urban Larsson is holding a selling exhibition of recent oil paintings at his studio in Prinseneiland, Amsterdam, showing several still-lives, portraits and landscapes. Open ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Urban Larsson is holding an exhibition of recent oil paintings and drawings at his studio.  A selection of still lifes, portraits, nudes, and landscapes will be availa ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Urban Larsson is holding a private studio exhibition and sale on November 14, 16, 17, 23 and 24, 2019. Several still lifes, figurative and landscapes will be o ...

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Urban Larsson studied Art History at the University of Stockholm, Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, then Drawing and Painting in Florence, Italy, at the Studio Cecil & Grav ...

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ARC Living Master Dan Thompson is holding a solo show of works on paper consisting of drawings from life and imagination. The exhibition runs from January 19 - March 22, 2024 in the Daughtrey Gallery ...

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16 August, 2012

ARC Approved Atelier™, The Academy of Realist Art, will be having a show at the French Cultural Center of Boston. Beaux - Arts and the New "Bohemians" French Cultural Center of Boston 53 Marlborou ...

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Check out ARC's upcoming and current exhibitions page.There are many new events approaching, including our most recent addition of an open house at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art on March ...

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Forbes magazine has recently published an article about the ARC Select: Taking Flight exhibition that will be taking place next month at Rehs Gallery, New York City. The group show featuring works ...

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The Epoch Times has published an article about the upcoming lecture by ARC Chairman, Fred Ross, at the Salmagundi Club in NYC.“ARC will be planning several lectures and educational events during the t ...

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Reflections by Donald Clapper75 international Realist artists will showcase their latest masterworks at Gallery 1261 located on 1261 Delaware, Denver, CO 80204. This represents one of the largest Real ...

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Though his reputation was eclipsed in the early twentieth century with the triumph of Impressionism, Theodore Rousseau was one of the giants of French landscape in the second half of the nineteenth ce ...

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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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The ARC Approved Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art has partnered with Rowan University to offer students a unique Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Philadelphia’s Studio Incammina ...

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Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown are usually referred to as the daughters of the British painter Ford Madox Brown, but both were talented, professional artists in their own right. This exhibition expl ...

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11 February, 2014

Gary Christensen, author of Richard F. Lack Catalogue Raisonné, will present an illustrated lecture on the preliminary studies, drawings and sketches of Richard Lack, founder of The Atelier, formerl ...

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Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from the Glasgow MuseumsOklahoma City Museum of Art - 415 Couch Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73102This exhibition examines the thematic and stylistic dev ...

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ARC is happy to announce we have improved the image galleries for Arnold Bocklin, with several new high-resolution images, as well as the gallery for Sir James Jebusa Shannon, with more high-resol ...

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Two new paintings by ARC Living Master™, Allan Banks have been added to the Allan R. Banks Gallery in the ARC Museum. Click here to see The Village Girl and The Blue Silk Scarf. The Village Girlby Al ...

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Juliette Aristides has generously donated two sections, one from her Classical Drawing Atelier book and one from her Classical Painting Atelier book to the technical article section on the ARC web ...

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Two New Articles by ARC Director of Operations Kara Lysandra Ross are available at the Epoch Times. The Contemporary Realist Movement The term, “Contemporary Art,” has long been associat ...

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The ARC Approved Ani Art Academy Waichulis School has now branched out to open two new school locations. In addition to its original schools with Anthony J. Waichulis in Pennsylvania, Wachulis has ope ...

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Two major auctions are underway at Sotheby's and Christie's London.The Sotheby's London December 10th British & Irish Art auction will feature works by Millais, Burne-Jones, Herbert Draper, Arthur H ...

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Auctioneer and Remington's Pretty Mother of the Nightby Daniel Greene - Oil, 40 x 50 inches ARC Living Master™ Daniel Green will be featured in Living Legends which opens tomorrow, Septembe ...

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Chinese translations of the following two chapters from the ARC Philosophy appeared in the Epoch Times this past June and August, and have now been made available on the ARC website. Chapte ...

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Two more articles have been published in the Epoch Times by ARC Director of Operation’s, Kara Lysandra Ross. Forgotten Female Artists of the 19th Century was published on September 25th and focuse ...

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This exhibition features works by Dutch and Flemish artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who were exponents of the "tronie" – an intriguing painting of a head. Artists experimented with ...

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This focus exhibition is the first to unite the series of four whaling scenes made by Joseph Mallord William Turner near the end of his career. The quartet of paintings—comprising The Met's Whalers an ...

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1 February, 2022

The exhibition explores Turner’s lifelong interest in the inventions, events, politics, society, culture and science of his time, which resulted in many of his most original works and transformed hi ...

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The Wallace Collection will be exhibiting watercolor landscapes by J.M.W. Turner and Richard Parkes Bonington that have not been on public view for 17 years.  The display brings together ten work ...

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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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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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Inspired by Robert C. Jackson’s 2014 publication, Behind the Easel: The Unique Voices of 20 Contemporary Representational Painters, this exhibition surveys the state of realistic painting at the start ...

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Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italia ...

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18 October, 2023

Grainger Gallery presents “Truth & Beauty” featuring Grainger’s favorite figurative realists, Penelope Boyd, Colleen Stapleton and ARC Associate Living Master Narelle Zeller. From the colorist hue ...

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An integral part of art education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, painting en plein air was a core practice for avant-garde artists in Europe. Intrepid artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camil ...

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The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization™, is hosting a special event. On March 2, 2013 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm, three CAC artists will capture a scene in pastels with simultaneous demonstrati ...

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Official Portrait of Pope Benedict XVI by Igor Babailov Igor Babailov, Hon. RAA and ARC's Living Master, will take the 'Extreme Drawing Team' to Rome, Italy, March 31th - April 4, 2014 for 5 - days ...

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21 February, 2019

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Hermitage Amsterdam, two anniversary exhibitions featuring a cross-section of masterpieces from the entire collection of the St Petersburg State Hermita ...

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Treasures of British Art presents a selection of paintings from the acclaimed traveling exhibition, providing a panoramic view of British cultural history seen through its art. Featured are examples b ...

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The National Museum, Sweden's largest and most distinguished art institution, is partnering with the Morgan Library & Museum - 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 to bring more than seventy-five ...

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For more than five hundred years, the Alba family has formed part of one of the most important aristocratic lineages in Europe, not only because of its military, political, and social significance, bu ...

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Free of charge and open to the public, Treasures from Chatsworth will be on view from 28 June through 13 September 2019 in Sotheby’s New York galleries, located at 1334 York Avenue. Forty-five maste ...

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We are pleased to present the dates for the 12th International ARC Salon's live exhibition, featuring many of the top placing works in the competition.May 12 - June 1, 2017 Salmagundi Club47 Fifth Ave ...

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The Detroit Institute of Arts announced today a series of statewide programs including two traveling exhibitions a year.A single-painting exhibition of one of the DIA's most popular paintings, "The Nu ...

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October 30, 2015 - January 21, 2016Rolland Gallery of Fine Art - 60 West Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 The secrets of the studio are passed between artists, in a gradual sharing of technique and ...

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20 February, 2020

Cultural identity in the United States has been long intertwined with its magnificent landscapes, from the dense forests of New England to the open terrain of the West. These landscapes extol the un ...

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On Aug 21, 2017 the first solar eclipse of this century will be visible in the U.S.In 1918, Howard Russell Butler, a portrait and landscape artist and graduate of Princeton University’s first school o ...

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Transcending Tradition celebrates women figurative realist painters who have changed the landscape for women in the arts. Featuring iconic paintings from The Bennett Collection, this exhibition h ...

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TRAC2014, A Full HouseThe Representational Art Conference that took place at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Ventura, CA last week was an event for the history books.Several articles have come out post the ...

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The Representational Art Conference 2015 (TRAC2015) will take place from November 1 – 4th. It is the premier international art conference focused on the philosophical underpinnings of representational ...

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28 September, 2018

The Representational Art Conference 2019 (TRAC2019), run by California Lutheran University Arts Initiative, is one of the largest international events focused on representational art in the 21st Cen ...

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Art Renewal Center has been a loyal partner of The Representational Art Conference (TRAC) for several years now and since TRAC is going abroad for the first time this year, we want to celebrate ...

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9 January, 2014

The Representational Art Conference 2014 (TRAC2014) will focus on the aesthetic principles and values implicit in the representational art of the 21st Century. Presentations, panel discussions and ...

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28 February, 2014

The Representational Art Conference 2014 kicks off in Ventura, CA this coming Sunday. Kara Ross, ARC Director of Operations will be on a panel discussing the future of representational art on Wed 8: ...

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ARC Approved™ Studio Incamminati celebrates Founder and Artistic Director Nelson Shanks' one-man exhibitions at The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and the Russian Academy of Arts in ...

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ARC Approved Atelier, The Long Island Academy of Fine Art is happy to announce a portrait demonstration offered byARC Living Master Anthony Ryder . Mr. Ryder, an internationally recognized artist, ...

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Only 2 spots remaining in each program An exclusive opportunity to study with Master Artist Tony Ryder in a  4-week long program at  Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier. BACAA/Tony Ryder Maste ...

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ARC Living Master ™ Tony Pro has been working on this special project as a means of showing the real faces of contemporary cowboys, especially the faces of cowboys and ranchers in Long Valley. In al ...

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Congratulations to ARC Living Master Tony Pro for winning Best in Show in the September 2017 BoldBrush Painting Competition for his painting Her Day Out IV. To view all of the winners of the competit ...

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Her Day Out by Tony ProARC Living Master™ Tony Pro will soon be the executive director of the Coppini Academy of Fine Art in San Antonio, Texas.The schedule for classes with Pro will be posted to th ...

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In April 2012, PleinAir™ magazine made history with the first convention devoted to painting en plein air, and the largest gathering of artists painting in one outdoor location simultane ...

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In Venice, shortly after 1500, Titian began to produce great paintings in which women were depicted in a new light. Informed by contemporary love, poetry and literature, Titian and his contemporarie ...

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In 1551, Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, commissioned Titian, the most famous painter in Europe at the time, to produce a group of paintings showing Classical myths primarily take ...

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23 January, 2025

Exploring the many ways that the French artist James Tissot represented modern women and envisioned their relationship to time during the last decades of the nineteenth century, this exhibition presen ...

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In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the special cooperation of the Gall ...

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14 February, 2017

Come paint with two-time ARC Salon Purchase Award winner and ARC Associate Living Master, Tina Garrett in Tuscany! This 5 day workshop is appropriate for all levels and is great for those who want to ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ and award winning artist, Tina Garrett, is holding a 5-Day Painting the Portrait from Life workshop at The Florence Studio in Italy. Beginners on ...

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As a needed distraction from these crazy times, ARC Associate Living Master Tina Garrett has opened her online Facebook group mentorship page to anyone who wants to watch a one-day live painting dem ...

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All levels are welcome to this 5-Day Flesh Tones Workshop for Oil Painters with ARC Associate Living Master, Tina Garrett. Tina started oil painting in 2012 and shares with her students the pra ...

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Timesless Treasures The Art of Stephen Gjertson by Annette LeSueur ARC Living Master™ Stephen Gjertson is one of a group of contemporary representational artists who call themselves "Classi ...

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Timeless Beauty is a  wide-ranging presentation, with masterpieces by painters such as Balthasar van der Ast, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Adriaen van Utrecht, Willem Claesz Heda, Abraham Mignon and Rach ...

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Denver's Gallery 1261 proudly presents a special showcase of contemporary artworks that explores the realm of high-definition realism. Curated by ARC Living Master Anthony Waichulis, this new exhibiti ...

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The Frick Collection presents a selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs related to Giambattista Tiepolo’s first significant project outside of Venice, a series of ceiling frescoes ...

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The ARC Approved TIAC Academy is organizing a Painting Master Workshop with Golucho, one of the main representatives of New Realism. The workshop will take place at the European Museum of Modern Art ...

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Kara Lysandra Ross, ARC Co-Chair / COO was recently interviewed by the International Arts and Culture Group as part of their #TIACARTINTOUCH project. The 22 minute video interview covers topics such ...

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Nick Alm, second place winner of the Figurative Category, winner of an ARC purchase award, the Poets Artists Award and the TIAC Art Prize was recently interviewed by The International ...

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