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Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity explores Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fascination with the representation of domestic life in antiquity. Born in the north of the Netherlands, the exhibition traces his ear ...

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The Almost Miniatures Exhibition is collection of small works for the Holiday created by some of the best painters on the east coast. ARC Living Master™ Sergio Roffo is among the participating ...

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Czech-born Alphonse Mucha was one of the most celebrated artists in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. As an influential force behind the Art Nouveau movement, he created sumptuous posters and a ...

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The Czech illustrator Alphonse Mucha became one of the most renowned artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with his distinctive French Art Nouveau style. Characterized by soft, organic lin ...

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Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty is a major touring exhibition from the Mucha Foundation which explores the work of the artist around the theme of beauty – the core principle underlying his artis ...

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ARC Approved™ Atelier Florence Academy of Art has announced its Fourth Alumni Exhibition. Princess Giorgianna Corsini has opened up the Corsini family stables for the exhibit.Opening ReceptionS ...

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4 October, 2011

"Dear Fred, I recently discovered the ARC website and was amazed and touched at your honesty and bravery in speaking out against modern 'art'. I'm an English painter and musician residing permanentl ...

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23 October, 2020

 Ambivalence is an online exhibition curated by Carol Hodes. "...Ambivalence could have accompanied us from our youth and formed our characters unknowingly. It could have created the etho ...

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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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During his visit to the United Sates in 1815, Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon, put on public view his collection of eighteenth-century French paintings. The works caused a sensation, an ...

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This retrospective of the work of award-winning sculptor and patron Anna Hyatt Huntington will present sculpture spanning the scope of her prolific career from the late 19th century to a few years bef ...

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The American Artist Professional League will be holding their 95th Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Each artwork is selected for its beauty, quality, and value, and will repres ...

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In the early to mid-1800s, the expansive landscapes of New York State’s Hudson River Valley and adjacent areas, such as the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains, inspired a remarkably talented gr ...

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American Masters returns to the Salmagundi Club with a special exhibition and sale commemorating its 10th anniversary. American Masters 2018 features nearly 70 of today’s finest realist artists, of ...

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As shown in the most recent Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine issue, Palm Avenue Fine Art is hosting American Masters 2013, an exhibition featuring several of the finest living American artists, includin ...

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6 October, 2017

The Salmagundi Club is holding its 9th annual American Masters Fine Art Exhibition & Sale taking place in its elegant brownstone mansion in historic Greenwich Village. Forty-eight of North America ...

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A fine art sale held for the benefit of Salmagundi, American Masters will return to adorn the Club's newly renovated Upper Gallery with works of art by nationally recognized artists not often exhibi ...

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American Miniatures at Settlers West is one of the best exhibitions of small original paintings and sculpture. More than 200 artists will participate in this stellar event, including works by ARC Livi ...

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Since the founding of the United States, American painters have been attracted to the celebrated art, ancient ruins, and picturesque scenery of Italy.  This exhibition of works from the Muse ...

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This extraordinary gathering of rarely seen masterpieces traces the rise of a uniquely American medium. Shaped by the genius of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, the watercolor movement tells a ...

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Opening Saturday, May 12th, 2018 from 5-8pm at Arcadia Contemporary Los Angeles, California 9428 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA 90232. A group of fifteen American representational artists have c ...

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Now in it's sixth year, VRFA Gallery's Americans in Paris presents Art Nouveau, with 75 new dazzling works created for VRFA gallery boasting brilliant gold, petina green, textures, figures and scene ...

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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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Two rarely loaned paintings by Caravaggio join works by his devoted followers in this intimate exhibition highlighting both the grand spectacle and intense influence of Caravaggio’s extraordinary work ...

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  More than 15 works by ARC Living Master™ Mario Andres Robinson will be presented in 'An American Vision: The Art of Mario Andres Robinson'.   The exhibition runs from April 12 - May 1 ...

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Featuring rarely-seen portraits by some of the 19th and early 20th centuries’ most accomplished European, American, and British portrait artists, including Ilya Repin (1844-1930), William Merritt Chas ...

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y first impression of Dana Levin on beginning our phone interview was that she was a young woman filled with enthusiasm and energy. Dana loves what she does...she paints, she teaches, and she does bot ...

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ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt has been selected to exhibit two of her works, Barren Land and Dog Tracks, at NordArt 2023. NordArt 2023 presents a curated selection of contemporary art o ...

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Painter Rob Reed and Writer and Film-maker John Rogers join ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt during her solo exhibition to discuss what makes urban waste ground such an interesting and inspiring place ...

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Open now through February 2, 2014Featuring 100 rarely seen works drawn from public and private collections throughout Europe and the United States, this major retrospective promises to be a revelati ...

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The Petit Palais is devoting a major retrospective to the work of Anders Zorn (1860-1920), one of the central figures of Swedish painting at the turn of the 19th-century. During his lifetime ...

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From about 1515 until his death, Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) ran the most successful and productive workshop in Florence, not only leaving his native city richly decorated with his art but also gre ...

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ARC Approved™ Andreeva Portrait Academy is excited about the relocation of the Andreeva Portrait Academy to north Austin, in the historic tourist-art community of Salado. Located in the heart of ...

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The ARC Approved Atelier™Andreeva Portrait Academyis offering Summer Classes in the historic Plaza district of Santa Fe, New Mexico.Click Here for the Andreeva Portrait Academy SchedulePaintings by An ...

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4 December, 2024

This exhibition encapsulates the life and work of the Andrew Wyeth during a pivotal year in his artistic career. In this year in which the artist turned sixty-five and entered what might be considered ...

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ARC Approved™ Angel Academy of Art will be hosting their student exhibition this weekend. The show opens this Friday June 6th from 18:30 – 20:30 but the exhibition will continue on Saturday the 7th ...

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Click image to view larger. The ARC Approved™ Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy is holding their triennial Student-Instructor Exhibition from April 28 – 30, 2017.The exhibition of paintings and ...

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Click here to watch ARC Living Master, Michael John Angel from Angel Academy of Art, Florence, describe the history and course of training involved in becoming a traditional realist painter on YouT ...

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ARC Approved™ Atelier, Angel Academy of Art, Florence has announced their new website:VISIT www.angelartschool.com ...

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The Tenth-Anniversary Exhibition of the Angel Academy of Art, recently held in London, was a great success. Click here to see the show and catalogue. ...

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Founded in 1997, the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, is considered one of the best of the 21st-century academies and ateliers that specialize in the teaching of representational painting. Most of th ...

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L'Assaut by BouguereauARC Living Masters™ Michael John Angel, co-founder and studio director of the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy and Juliette Aristides, founder and director of the Aristi ...

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ARC Living Master Angela Mia De La Vega was recently commissioned by the Women That Soar Awards Show to sculpt the award sculpture that will be awarded to all of their honorees going forward. ...

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The Ani Academies exhibition at Rehs Contemporary Galleries in New York attracted the attention of the Epoch Times after it appeared in ARC announcements. The article titled Ani Art Academies Offer ...

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Ani Art Academies, an ARC Approved Atelier™ would like to congratulate the winners of their 3rd Annual Drawing Competition. A prestigious panel of judges including ARC C.O.O. Kara Ross, Joshua Rose, P ...

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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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The Last Dance by Rodney Davis 2012 Charcoal and White Pastel 36 x 26 inchesAni Art Academies' The Big Gamble will open this Saturday, April 6th. The opening reception will be from 11:00 AM - 6:0 ...

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ANI Art Academies, an ARC Approved Atelier, was recently featured in a segment on CBS Saturday Morning.  The episode focused on the students at ANI Art Academies Dominicana and the impact that tr ...

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A.R.C. is happy to announce the release of the long awaited Ani Art Academies Core Program: Language of Drawing DVD series. For the last 18 months they have been recording each and every exercise ...

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Ani Art Academies Anguilla will hold an open house Thursday, March 28th, 2013 from 5:30 to 7:30PM for prospective students and the local community. The event, which will be held at the school, will ha ...

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22 April, 2015

ARC Approved™ Ani Art Academies is having an exhibition of student, alumni, and instructor works at the Rehs Gallery on 5 East 57th Street, 8th floor, New York NY 10022. The exhibit runs through May ...

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Ani Art Academy Waichulis' Capturing Realism 2011 Exhibition Ani Art Academy Waichulis' Capturing Realism 2011 Exhibition opens this Saturday October 29th. The Waichulis Studio's Capturing ...

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On Sunday, January 21st, 2024, from 1PM- 3PM, ANI Art Academy America is hosting a Winter Open House. We warmly invite you to join ÀNI Art Academies America to meet the current apprentices in per ...

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ARC Approved ANI Art Academies America is holding a Teen Portrait Workshop. The FREE two-day workshop will cover several aspects of portrait drawing and supplies will be included. The workshop is open ...

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Animalia is Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s twelfth international curated exhibition, and third at Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York. It brings together over 80 of the world’s best two and three d ...

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All sorts of animals bring joy, laughter, security and comfort to countless lives daily. They are our best friends, comforters and confidants, whether in a quiet hospital ward, at home, out in natur ...

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Ann Morton is now an ARC Living Artist™Click here to see the Ann Morton Gallery Fresh From the Gardenby Ann Morton ...

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Three hundred years ago, on 23 July 1721, Anna Dorothea Therbusch was born in Berlin, who would go on to become one of the most important women artists of the 18th century. To mark the tercentenary ...

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1 December, 2020

ARC Living MasterTM Anna Wypych is participating in two shows at the Abend Gallery. There will be a Solo Exhibition of her work running from December 2, 2020 - January 6, 2021. The 30th Annual Hol ...

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28 October, 2021

ARC Living Master Anna Wypych has recently been interviewed by John Dalton on his podcast "gently does it". To listen to the podcast, please click here. ...

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ARC Living Master™ Anna Wypych will be holding a solo show of 15 new works titled "Secret Life of Your Mind". Some of the paintings have been on display in Poland's National Gallery in Sopot, the Muse ...

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This exhibition reunites a group of exceptionally important wall paintings (last seen together in 1833) which can be considered the great unknown work in Annibale Carracci’s oeuvre; the surviving fres ...

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This is the first retrospective for nearly a century of the Manchester born painter Annie Swynnerton, a pioneering professional artist who challenged convention in art and life. Painting Light and ...

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The Annigoni Museum, dedicated to the works of Pietro Annigoni, the greatest of the 20th-century Realists, opened in Florence, Italy, on November 15th, 2008. It is housed in a stupendous palace, the P ...

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ARC is pleased to announce the addition of Allied Organizations to our site! To better accomplish our mission and return sanity back to the visual arts, we have started to ally ourselves with like ...

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The Representational Art Conference 2014 (TRAC2014) will focus on the aesthetic principles and values implicit in the representational art of the 21st Century. Having established the first TRAC2012 re ...

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Co-Producers Tony Fusco and Robert Four are pleased to announce the Seventeenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), to take place Thursday - Sunday, November 21-24, 2013 at The Cyclor ...

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Another Masterpiece by Alma-Tadema Brings Huge Numbers at Sotheby’s May 5th sale! This is the second highest price ever paid for a 19th century Academic painting, coming only second to Alma-T ...

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Portrait of Anne-Marieby Richard GreathouseThe Florence Academy of Art will be hosting a summer scholarship contest where they are offering both accommodations and a workshop of the winners choice. ...

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The Fox Stole by Ryan BrownThe Center for Academic Study & Naturalist Painting (CAS) will be hosting a scholarship competition with a deadline of May 30th. Located in Springville, Utah, they are gi ...

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This exhibition will examine women artists’ place in the history of British landscape art, a story traditionally dominated by male artists. Starting with early depictions by female amateur artists, th ...

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We are happy to announce two new exhibitions that will be coming up this Spring.The first is titled Contemporary Realism and will feature the work of ARC Living Master™ Anthony Waichulis at Gallery 1 ...

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Drawing Techniques for EducatorsApril 11 - 12, 2015 9:30 am - 4:30 pmFlorence Academy NYC Jersey CityThird Floor of the MANA Center888 Newark Ave.Jersey City, NJ 07306With Jordan Sokol & Mandy Halleni ...

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In the second half of the eighteenth century, the blossoming of a new printmaking technique—aquatint—vastly expanded possibilities for creating and disseminating images across Europe. Aquatints offe ...

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Former ARC Approved™ Academy of Realist Art student and portrait specialist Will Nathans recently completed a portrait commission for the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Vat ...

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ARC Approved Atelier™ ARA Boston is happy to announce the 10 participants of their 2016 Boston Figure Painting Competition.Jennifer Balkan, Julie Beck (ARA representative, not competing), Emanue ...

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The Academy of Realist Art Boston, an ARC Approved Atelier, will be hosting a juried figure painting competition in Boston in July. They anticipate drawing on a national pool of high caliber figure ...

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The Academy of Realist Art Boston is very happy to announce the 10 Participants of the 2015 Boston Figure Painting Competition: Ryan Brown, Kerry Dunn, Tanya Harsch, Joshua Langstaff, Rachel Moseley, ...

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18 January, 2017

The Academy of Realist Art, Boston, an ARC Approved™ atelier, launched its fifth annual scholarship competition for promising artists with a love for academic style painting and drawing. The sch ...

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December 4th, 2021 from 12:00 to 3:00 PM Are you curious about how ARC Approved Academy Realist Art Boston's online atelier works? Take a “tour” through a typical online atelier class format. You w ...

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ARC Approved Academy of Realist Art, Boston is accepting entries for it's scholarship opportunity. One lucky student will attend the 2021-2022 academic year tuition free! ARA Boston is an academy th ...

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23 February, 2022

ARA Boston's deadline for it's scholarship competition is fast approaching. The scholarship awards a student their first full year of training tuition free. The Academy of Realist Art, Boston is an AR ...

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ARA Boston has extended it's deadline for it's annual scholarship competition. The scholarship awards a student their first full year of training tuition free. The Academy of Realist Art, Bosto ...

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The deadline for ARA Boston's scholarship competition is fast approaching. The scholarship awards a student their first full year of training tuition free and ends on February 14, 2020. The Academy ...

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The deadline for ARA Boston's scholarship competition has been extended to March 1, 2020. The scholarship awards a student their first full year of training tuition free. The Academy of Realist A ...

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"Justice" by ARA InstructorBrian MacNeilThe Academy of Realist Art, Boston is holding a scholarship competition. One scholarship is to be awarded for a year's free tuition (school year, September 20 ...

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ARC Approved Atelier, Academy of Realist Art in Toronto, Canada -about one hour's drive from Buffalo, NY. is offering Classical Painting Classes this Summer with Award-Winning Realists from their F ...

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The ARC Approved Academy of Realist Art Toronto has recently published an interview with Director and Senior Instructor Fernando Freitas discussing the major changes to their school over the past 5 ye ...

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ARC Approved™ Academy of Realist Art, Toronto has partnered with RealistArtOnline.com to launch a new website for both new and seasoned artists who want to discover the secrets of the Old Masters. A ...

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Dracula by Arantzazu Martinez ARC Living Master™ Arantzazu Martinez recently had an interview with the Epoch Times.“Art is a matter of pure passion for the Spanish painter Arantzazu Martinez. ...

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Peachtree and Pine A new painting by Mario RobinsonARC Living Master™ Mario Robinson joins Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, John Singer Sargent, Stephen Scott Young, and Norman Rockwell among others i ...

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ARC Scholarship Competition$30,000 in Scholarship Grants This YearThe 2008 ARC Scholarship Competition Deadline has passed and the competition is now closed.ARC Scholarship winners will be contacted b ...

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Second PlaceHayley by Sophie MerleCharcoal - 31 x 22 cmInstructor: Lynne BartonAngel Academy of Art FlorenceThe Judges for the 2013 ARC Scholarship Competition, Frederick C. Ross and Dr. Vern Sw ...

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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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The prospectus for the 2014 ARC Scholarship Competition is now live on the ARC website.We will be giving out yet another $30,000 in scholarship funds to students attending ARC Approved ™ Atelier and ...

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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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4th place, 2004 Scholarship WinnerCupid by Yee KangThe 15th Annual ARC Scholarship Competition will soon begin. At ARC, we believe the ARC Scholarship Competition one of the most important programs ...

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The ARC Scholarship Competition is devoted to supporting students whose works reflect the concept of traditional and contemporary realism. We received entries from students from around the world thi ...

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The Art Renewal Center is dedicated to bringing realism back to the visual arts. To better accomplish our mission and return sanity back to the visual arts, we have allied ourselves with like-m ...

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30 October, 2018

Alexandra York has recently written an article in Newsmax about The Da Vinci Initiative and the Art Renewal Center titled "Art Renewal Center Brings Art Education to Public Schools". &quo ...

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