20 November, 2014
Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ Ardith Starostka for having her painting Wallflower featured on the December cover of The Artist's Magazine.Her work is also part of the 9th Annual Inter ...
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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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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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17 November, 2014
Morning Roses by Adrian GottliebARC Living Master™ Adrian Gottlieb has recently been featured in an Epoch Times article titled “Painter Spotlight: Adrian Gottlieb, a Poet With Paint”."Adrian G ...
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14 November, 2014
The Florence Academy of Art is proud to offer for the first time at its location in Florence, Italy, a workshop in Russian figure drawing.The Russian Academic Figure Drawing Intensive, taught by art ...
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13 November, 2014
Stephen Bauman’s painting “When I Was Young”, winner of the Fine Art Connoisseur Award and first place in the Imaginative Realism Category in the International 2013-2014 ARC Salon, is featured on th ...
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12 November, 2014
Academy of Realist Art is pleased to announce the launch of their new website. The new site has many new functions and an art store where users can purchase original art work online. The site is al ...
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11 November, 2014
Headwinds by Julio ReyesARC Living Master Julio Reyes™ will have a solo exhibit of works at the Arcadia Contemporary gallery on 51 Greene Street New York, NY 10013. The show opens on November 13 and ...
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10 November, 2014
National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, a new ARC Allied Organization™, encourages the development of excellence in art through its annual "Best of America" juried competition and exhibit as well ...
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7 November, 2014
Ernest, Which Stamp is Real? by Don ClapperThe 9th Annual Exhibition of the International Guild of Realism will be hosted by Robert Lange Studios and unveil 75 artworks from 70 award winning artists ...
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6 November, 2014
ARC Living Master™ Patrick Devonas is creating the first figurative monument dedicated to the victims of the witch burnings that occurred throughout Europe from the 15th to the 17th centuries. ...
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5 November, 2014
Dans Une Ville de Campagne Alger by Frederick Arthur BridgmanOn November 6th, Sotheby’s New York will have an auction of important 19th century European paintings.This sale will consist of 110 lots ...
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4 November, 2014
ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore is having a solo show of 35 paintings running until November 30, 2014 at the Travis Gallery in New Hope, PA.Opening night for the exhibit will be on Saturday, No ...
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3 November, 2014
ARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg will be opening his studio for visiting, viewing, and buying small works, studies, and illustrations.The studio will be open from December 12 -14, 2014 and is l ...
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31 October, 2014
ARC is pleased to welcome Jerry Luisi as an ARC Associate Living Master™. "The subject matter of all my art is primarily the human figure. My work is a reflection of my basic view of the positive na ...
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30 October, 2014
The winners of the bi-monthly PleinAir Salon competition have been announced and are featured in PleinAir magazine's e-newsletter. Winner - Best FigurativeChasing Shadows by John Buxton Winners of t ...
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29 October, 2014
The Florence Academy of Art offers a full time NASAD accredited Certificate program and intensive workshops in Sculpture. New this year is a two-week all-day course, Sculpting the Portrait from Life ...
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28 October, 2014
Sign up for this Da Vinci Initiative workshop with Charles Miano & Mandy Hallenius at The Southern Atelier in Sarasota, FL. Although appropriate for anyone wanting to increase their technical drawin ...
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24 October, 2014
We are very happy to announce the DVI Kickstarter for their first online-class is fully funded! A very special thank you to all the backers! The support they have received not only financially but ...
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23 October, 2014
The Proposal by David Gluck October 3 - 31, 2014SR Brennen Galleries - 124 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, 87501Former ARC International Salon Winners Teresa Oaxaca, David Gluck, and Katherine Sto ...
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22 October, 2014
We started accepting entries to the 2014/2015 International ARC Salon Competition on October 1st.Participants will compete for recognition, cash prizes, and a chance to have their work seen by some ...
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21 October, 2014
Detail of Dame Alice Owen by George Frampton This exhibition, the first of its kind, examines the making and viewing of sculpture in Britain and its empire during the reign of Queen Victoria.The dis ...
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20 October, 2014
See Studio Incamminati firsthand at Open House. Learn about the Professional Program and talk to representatives from Chestnut Hill College, Studio Incamminat's partner in the new Integrated Art Stu ...
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17 October, 2014
Skeleton by Dan Thompson The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops, classes and open model sessions in the winter of 2015. A few highlights are as follows: ...
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16 October, 2014
John Rowe has created work for such companies as Disney, National Geographic, and Harper Collins, along with numerous private and public commissions.“A great painting much like a great movie, book o ...
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15 October, 2014
Greater amounts are of course welcome, but even a $1 donation will help the DVI Kickstarter come up with greater frequency within Kickstarter Searches. If even a small portion of our subscribers we ...
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14 October, 2014
The 9th Annual Exhibition of the International Guild of Realism will be hosted by Robert Lange Studios and unveil 75 artworks from 70 award winning artists from around the world. IGOR has been an ex ...
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13 October, 2014
Starting January 2015, the Florence Academy New York Metro will offer a full time Certificate program in Drawing & Painting with places for 20 students. Intensive workshops begin in March. Academic ...
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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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9 October, 2014
Suggested Donation is a series of podcasts devoted to the arts in all forms. Hosted by two Contemporary Realist painters, Tony Curanaj and Edward Minoff, the conversations provide an insight into th ...
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8 October, 2014
Bacchanal by Nick Alm“Every year the Art Renewal Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the re-appreciation of traditional art and training techniques, hosts a prestigious internat ...
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7 October, 2014
Charlene Helfend Lane's first heroes were the traditional artists she saw in books and museums. Winning an art award at the age of nine confirmed her desire to be an artist. However, life brought h ...
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6 October, 2014
Unemployed On Line by Max GinsburgARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg will be conducting a 5-day Traditional Realist Alla Prima Oil Painting from Life workshop in his personal studio. 9am to 4 pm ...
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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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2 October, 2014
This will be our 11th annual competition in which some of the best contemporary realist artists in the world compete for recognition, cash prizes, and a chance to have their work seen by some of the ...
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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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30 September, 2014
Representational Painter and Journalist, Brandon Kralik, writes about The Florence Academy of Art's new U.S. Campus in his featured blog on the Huffington Post. Kralik speaks with the Florence Acade ...
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29 September, 2014
The Academy of Realist Art has opened a new branch of their already successful ARC Approved™ school. Set in the heart of the beautiful historic city of Edinburgh, Scotland, The Academy of Realist Ar ...
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26 September, 2014
Drawing by 16 year old Sarah Katie Li, charcoal on paper The Da Vinci Initiative has started a major fundraising campaign through Kickstarter to bring skill-based training in the visual arts to publ ...
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25 September, 2014
PleinAir magazine is currently holding their Annual PleinAir Salon. In the spirit of the French Salon created by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, this annual competition, with bi-monthly contes ...
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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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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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22 September, 2014
ARC Living Master™ Julio Reyes will be exhibiting in the Contemporary Realism Biennial in Fort Wayne, IN. Every two years, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (FWMoA) organizes the Contemporary Realism Bi ...
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19 September, 2014
Starting January 2015, the Florence Academy New York Metro will offer a full time Certificate program in Drawing & Painting with places for 20 students. Self Portrait by Richard GreathouseIntensive ...
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18 September, 2014
The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), an ARC Allied Organization, is running an exhibition titled “Some sculpture, please!”. The exhibit focuses on European sculpture of the twentieth century w ...
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17 September, 2014
Cover Painting by Anne Blair BrownPleinAir Magazine Award Winning Painting2013-2014 International ARC SalonBrisk Evening by John Pototschnik John Pototschnik, winner of the PleinAir Magazine Award i ...
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16 September, 2014
IlluXcon is the ground-breaking art show, symposium, and celebration dedicated solely to imaginative realism. This event, beginning on September 17th through Sunday September 21st, brings artists, ...
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15 September, 2014
Artist and art instructor Robert Florczak has created a video lecture for Prager University entitled “Why is Modern Art So Bad?”. The five minute lecture supports the return of classical standards ...
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12 September, 2014
Shrine by Noah Buchanan, Marla Gorretis The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops, classes and open model sessions this fall.Some of the workshops that sti ...
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11 September, 2014
Show opens Friday, September 12, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pmThe Florence Academy of Art opens an Alumni Exhibition at the Richard J. Massey Foundation. To view the work on exhibit, visit www.therichardmasseyf ...
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10 September, 2014
Portrait of Mark Abouzeidby Jamie CorethREPRESENT is an exciting debut exhibition showcasing some of today's most promising representational and figurative artists from all over the world but who ha ...
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9 September, 2014
The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization™, reveals the intriguing qualities of small-format artwork with this exhibition, which is on view at its gallery at the historic Old Mill.A recept ...
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8 September, 2014
Michael John Angel, head of ARC Approved Angel Academy of Art in Florence has written a new article about Caravaggio and his painting The Betrayal of Christ.The Betrayal of Christ by Caravaggio"Duri ...
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5 September, 2014
The IX symposium is the world's largest exhibition of imaginative realist art. Featuring over 150 artists, the show is a visual feast for all fans of imaginative painting. The artists who will be e ...
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4 September, 2014
The Art Renewal Center is now offering a boxed set of greeting cards featuring some of the most popular paintings in the ARC museum.This beautiful set of 12 cards (1 unique image per card) are print ...
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3 September, 2014
Francesca Anderson Fine Art will feature several new Ani artist's works for their upcoming exhibit, Trompe L'oeil. Specializing in Contemporary Realism and Portraiture, FA Fine art has been hosting ...
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2 September, 2014
Manna From Heaven by Lori ShorinThe Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences presents selected work from Florence Academy of Art Alumni.The opening reception for the show will be on Fr ...
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29 August, 2014
IlluXcon, a five day event held at the Allentown Museum, is the world’s largest exhibition of imaginative realist art. Featuring over 150 artists and well over 1000 original pieces of artwork, the ...
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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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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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26 August, 2014
Red Crown 5 by Debbie StevensThe Society of Animal Artists, an ARC Allied Organization™, focuses on capturing wild and domestic creatures in art on land, sea and air. In their mission to promote art ...
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25 August, 2014
The Art Renewal Center is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Annual Scholarship Competition.For 14 years now, the ARC Scholarship Fund has awarded scholarships to some of the most tal ...
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22 August, 2014
John Ruskin is primarily remembered as Victorian Britain's leading art critic and the champion of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Less well known is that Ruskin was an outstanding artist ...
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21 August, 2014
This is Australia by John Mccartin
In the spirit of the French Salon created by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, this annual competition, with bi-monthly contests leading to annual Salon Grand ...
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20 August, 2014
The Guild of Boston Artists is a non-profit association of painters and sculptors whose purpose is to promote, nurture and encourage traditional art adhering to the highest standards of quality and ...
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19 August, 2014
We will be announcing the results of the 14th Annual ARC Scholarship competition on Monday, August 25, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. est.We hope that all of our ARC viewers will visit the site to see the work ...
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Starting on August 25, 2014, the artists and alumni of Studio Incamminati will be exhibiting and selling artwork at the Art Center at The Market and Shops at Comcast Center in Philadelphia, PA.At a ...
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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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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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13 August, 2014
Rainbow by Aivazovsky
We are pleased to announce that we have recently updated the Aivazovsky gallery on ARC.
To view the gallery, please click here.To view all new additions to the ARC museum, c ...
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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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11 August, 2014
Several artists from the ARC Approved™ Ani Art Academies will be exhibiting at the John Pence Gallery."Drawings are at once the heartbeat, the bones, the musculature, and the spirit of all art. Draw ...
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With works by some of the greatest names in European art, the show entitled, Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums, examines the thematic and stylistic developments ...
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7 August, 2014
Portrait of Maria Elisabeth Theresia (Elise) Schwartze-Herrmann with her grandchildren Letty and Lizzy Ansingh by Thérèse SchwartzeARC is pleased to announce the addition of new biographical informa ...
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6 August, 2014
ARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg will be conducting a 5 day traditional realist oil painting from life workshop from his Personal Skylight studio located in Long Island City, NY.The workshop ru ...
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4 August, 2014
Silence and Sagebrush by Jeremy LipkingCongratulations to ARC Living Master™ Jeremy Lipking for winning the top prize purchase award in the Prix de West Art show held at the National Cowboy an ...
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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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31 July, 2014
More than 50 contemporary and traditional artists associated with the historic California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization, celebrate the enduring appeal of the Golden State. The exhibition high ...
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30 July, 2014
Come visit our new Pinterest page and pin your favorite old master paintings. Show us which old master artworks inspire you, make you think or just make you happy! This section will be dedicated spe ...
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29 July, 2014
Award winning ARC Living Master™, Joseph McGurl, will be conducting a landscape painting workshop Sept. 24, 25, and 26, 2014. It will be held at his home/studio on Amrita Island, Cape Cod. This wi ...
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This fascinating exhibition showcases conservators' forensic analysis of five Renaissance paintings in the Carnegie Museum of Art's collection. Learn how curators and conservators discovered a portr ...
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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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24 July, 2014
A Victorian Obsession presents 50 exceptional paintings by many of the leading artists of the Victorian period within the extraordinary interiors of Leighton House Museum. The pictures all belong to ...
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23 July, 2014
Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ Gordon Hanley, who is featured in the July edition Australian Artist Magazine. Gordon's work is also featured on the cover.The article details the process of cr ...
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Attention Mingled with Fearby François RudeGods and Heroes will be a rich overview of masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, the original school of fine arts in Paris, France, and a repository ...
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21 July, 2014
ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott will be conducting a three-day nude figure workshop August 15, 16 & 17 at his atelier in Petaluma, California. There are convenient accommodations for travelers in ...
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18 July, 2014
Portrait of Mark by Jamie CorethEach year, the ARC Approved Florence Academy of Art adds excitement to their curriculum by holding an informal competition among their students and awarding one stude ...
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17 July, 2014
For the first time in my life I have applied for the Art Renewal Salon 2014 and really did not expect anything to come out of it. To my great surprise, not only did I make it as a finalist, but both ...
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16 July, 2014
Griffin by Devin Cecil-WishingArtist and Grand Central Academy Instructor, Devin Cecil-Wishing, will be teaching a very special drawing intensive workshop in LA (Venice) September 24th-28th. The cl ...
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15 July, 2014
July 10 - 22, 2014Victorian Artists Society Galleries430 Albert St East Melbourne, Victoria 3002Australia We are happy to announce that ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan will be exhibiting ...
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14 July, 2014
Skin Deep by Darren KingsleyThe Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops this summer and fall. Some of the summer workshops that still having remaining spot ...
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11 July, 2014
May 20 - October 26, 2014Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)New York, NY 10028Le Chant d'Amour by Burne-JonesThis exhibition will highlight the second wave of the Pre-Raphae ...
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10 July, 2014
Twilight Calm by Sergio RoffoNorth Water Gallery - 27 North Water Street, Edgartown, MA 02539
ARC Associate Living Master™ Sergio Roffo will have an exhibition of works focusing on Martha's Vineya ...
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9 July, 2014
The Golden Gate Atelier will be conducting a 19 - 22 week Écorché sculpture course. Students will be taught the bony and muscular shapes that impact the surface of the skin and create form. By sculp ...
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8 July, 2014
Veil of Expressions 2by Marcos DamascenaMarcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia in 1981 and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest na ...
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July 12 - August 20, 2014La Casa del Berlingaio (Stazzema) and the Palazzo della Cultura di Stazzema (frazione di Cardoso), Stazzema, ItalyIn the 1960s, Signorina Simi's school was the only one in E ...
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3 July, 2014
Now through September 14, 2014The Taft Museum of Art - 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202The Voyage of Life: Youthby Thomas ColeDiscover a landmark of American art by Thomas Cole, a leader of t ...
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2 July, 2014
Juliette Aristides will be teaching a special workshop from August 27th – 29th on the foundations of drawing. She has three highly popular and well received published instructional books on classica ...
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1 July, 2014
An Uneven Struggle by Per Elof Nilsson RicklundThe ARC Approved™ Florence Academy has just launched a new updated version of their website with a redesigned Alumni Gallery where visitors can zoom in ...
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30 June, 2014
Hsin-Yao, having already developed a signature style, has had his work recognized by the major art magazines of today, as well as by an unprecedented number of highly prestigious galleries. Hsin-Yao ...
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