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The Arcadia Contemporary gallery is holding a group show of paintings all measuring 12 x 12 inches and created by over 30 painters from around the world.Nick Alm, Daniel Bilmes, Shaun Downey, David Gl ...

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14 June, 2019

ARC Master Ted Seth Jacobs passed away at his home in France this past April. Born in 1927, Jacobs was a world renowned artist who dedicated himself to the Representational Art Movement.  ...

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8 February, 2018

When eighteenth-century pastellists competed with oil painters for portrait commissions, they faced a challenge. Paper was manufactured in small sheets, and so, to create pastel pictures as large as ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Manchester Studios RVA as a new ARC ApprovedSM Atelier!     Manchester Studios RVA brings master artists and instructors in Classical Realism from around the wo ...

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Don't miss this unique opportunity to study with Odd Nerdrum from November 4-9, 2019 at TIAC Studio, Via Luna 8r, Florence, Italy. TIAC is kindly offering the ARC community a special discount of 10 ...

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The February/March Plein Air competition, brought to you by Plein Air Magazine and Streamline Publishing, is now open and accepting entries until midnight on March 15, 2020. Entrants can ...

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ARC Living Master Daniel Graves has been featured in the article "What Inspires Master Artist Daniel Graves" in Realism Today. "From doorways found in distant travels to classic myth ...

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ARC Select: The Modern Muse is the third annual ARC Select exhibition. This year's show features works by Linda Adair, Hiroshi Furuyoshi, David Bowers, Amanda Greive, Randalf Dilla and Michael van Z ...

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Skajs Antikhandel, located at Nybrogatan 3, 114 34 Stockholm, Sweden, is proud to host its third exhibition of works by ARC Associated Living Master™, Urban Larsson. This exhibition runs from April 2 ...

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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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27 May, 2021

ARC Living Master Julio Reyes will be unveiling 12 new works in "Tender Mercies", his solo exhibition at Arcadia Contemporary. "'Tender Mercies' is an intimate collection of egg temp ...

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This October, Rehs Contemporary in New York City will open their doors to the public for Taking Flight, a socially distanced exhibition, by RSVP only. The group show is the gallery’s annual ev ...

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The South African Portrait Society, an ARC Allied Organization™, has recently announced the winners of their 2017 Living Portrait Master Competition.The winning artists were selected out of a gr ...

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Small Works, Great Wonders features a fusion of traditional and contemporary paintings and sculpture at affordable prices. Among the participating artists is ARC Associate Living Master Mary Ross Bu ...

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Misty Sunrise, NantucketARC Associate Living Master™, Sergio Roffo, will be holding an exhibition of his recent works. The show begins on August 18, 2017 at the Quidley & Co. Gallery, located on ...

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ARC Living Master™ Erik Koeppel released his judge's picks for the winners of the PleinAir Salon bi-monthly competition.ARC Living Master™ John Buxton took the first place award for his painting Great ...

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ARC Living Master™ Patricia Watwood was recently invited by the Fox 2 Morning News show to do a segment with St. Louis Anchor John Pertzborn. She recently painted a portrait of Father La ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Maegan Oberhardt as a new ARC Living Artist! Maegan spent her early years surrounded by nature and native wildlife. This environment taught her appreciation of nature and ins ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Michelle Jung as an ARC Associate Living Master™! Rocks and Foam by Michelle Jung"Nature is a major influence in my work. The initial inspiration comes from my experience out ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Alex Callaway as an Associate Living MasterTM.   Describing his work as 'observational realism' Alex paints directly from life in natural light and his still lifes ...

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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 prof ...

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Jonathan LeVine Gallery will be presenting the breadth of imaginative realism in one exhibition. Patrick Wilshire, founder of the Association of Fantastic Art, an ARC Allied Organization™, selected ...

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Each year the Montana Trails Gallery likes to celebrate the holiday season with a Small Works Show. The show will take place on December 5th from 5PM - 7PM. The pieces will be on display from Novemb ...

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ARC Living Artist™ George Hartley is participating in two upcoming shows. "An Allegory of Faith" has been accepted into the Academic Artists Association's 67th Annual Nat'l exhibition of Traditi ...

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With some 120 masterpieces, the show presents the groundbreaking artistic innovations at the birthplace of the Renaissance. A comprehensive selection of exquisite panel paintings, sculptures and dra ...

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On July 1, Sugarlift will open the exhibition Flora Nova: Painting Nature Now, which features recent work by five gifted artists who each regard the natural world in a unique and compelling way. Gue ...

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The Foundation of the Art and the Artists, an ARC Allied Organization, is accepting entries to the 10th International Figurativas 2019 Painting and Sculpture Competition. The deadline is April 12, 2 ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™, Doug Zider, will be displaying his painting "Sinking of the Golden Gate, 1862" in the Copley Society's juried show, "At Sea". The show will run from May 20 - J ...

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14 September, 2018

French painter Eugène Delacroix was one of the greatest creative figures of the nineteenth century. Delacroix produced an extraordinarily vibrant body of work, setting into motion a cascade of innov ...

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The Chiaroscuro Atelier is holding their 4th annual Christmas Show and Party. This year the show is dedicated to Small works, which would be perfect for Christmas gifts. There will be a musical p ...

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The California Arts Club, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their 108th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition.     More than 300 sculptures and paintings of genres ranging from landscapes an ...

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6 September, 2017

The results of the 2017 ARC Scholarship Competition will be posted on Monday, September 11, 2017. Each year, the ARC Scholarship Fund Distributes over $30,000 to aid students at ARC Approved™ Academi ...

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We are pleased to announce an article featuring  Alex Bauwens, the Art Renewal Center’s 13th ARC Salon Fine Art Connoisseur Award winner, has been published in the Scottsdale Independent. ...

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We would like to announce that we have reworked the Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale Gallery, adding over 40 new images by this famous female artist and illustrator, many in high resolution. In 1902, sh ...

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The Florence Academy of Art, one of the Art Renewal Center's first approved schools, has been advancing the training and techniques of classical painting and sculpture for 25 years. It has formed many ...

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Four new available casts available from The Fountainhead Gipsoteca. Sculptor Justin Kendall’s goal is to help introduce people to the tradition of classical sculpture by producing affordable plaster ...

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The Society of Animal Artists, an ARC Allied Organization™ focuses on capturing wild and domestic creatures, on land, sea and air, in a wide range of media and artistic styles. In their mission to p ...

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