28 June, 2013
Choose a painting, sculpture, vase, drawing, etc., from the past, and in one 500-700 word article, discuss its history, cultural context, style, and creation in a manner that is inviting and education ...
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5 May, 2020
Inspired Original has recently created a mini documentary about Brunelleschi's Dome of Florence Cathedral. Brunelleschi took over 28 years to build the Dome through war, plague, political unrest, cr ...
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20 October, 2020
In celebration of the de Young museum’s 125th anniversary, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are hosting The de Young Open, a juried community art exhibition of submissions by artists who live ...
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18 November, 2020
In celebration of the de Young museum’s 125th anniversary, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are hosting The de Young Open, a juried community art exhibition of submissions by artists who live ...
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30 October, 2024
In an era of sweeping change following the Civil War, an ambitious generation of American artists adopted the human figure as their focus. Showcasing more than 100 studies related to major commissions ...
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22 February, 2010
presents
Becoming an Artist: The Academy in 19th-Century France
February 26 - April 29, 2010 Monday through Saturday, 11-6
PALITZ GALLERY
Lubin House
11 East 61st Street
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17 April, 2015
Great News! Undergraduate and Graduate college credits are now available for the DVI's first online course, Introduction to Advanced Observational Drawing, through a partnership with The Heritage Inst ...
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13 October, 2017
The Da Vinci Initiative fall teaching season has begun, and they will be visiting a number of state conferences and hosting workshops. The Da Vinci Initiative sends ambassadors with atelier training t ...
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27 May, 2015
The first major collaborative exhibition between the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, this exhibition offers an unprecedented opportunity to display together treasured ...
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24 August, 2015
From September 1 - October 4, 2015, ARC Approved Atelier™ Lavender Hill Studios will present to the public a rare insight into the rigors of drawing and painting, as passed down by a long line of Mas ...
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27 July, 2009
Catalogue Raisonne Update: The Committee to Write the Catalogue Raisonne on William Bouguereau 1825-1905 has completed its work; the committee will accept no further additions to the publication.This ...
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20 January, 2012
Sensuality by Vala Ola Bronze
Don Clapper and Vala Ola, long time friends of ARC and Charter members of IGOR, the International Guild of Realism, are participating in this year’s Celebration of ...
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Last Train Home by Tony ProThe California Art Club will present the 102nd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Southern California ...
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The first major exhibition in the United States devoted to the Le Nain brothers, Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu, who were active in Paris during the 1630s and 1640s. More than forty of their best paintin ...
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6 October, 2015
The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli is celebrated as one of the most important painters of the Italian Renaissance. His paintings have been endlessly reproduced and interpreted. The exhibition tr ...
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31 January, 2024
Visit Studio Incamminati’s annual exhibition of student studies celebrating students, models, and their art. Attendance is free with refreshments provided by Bok Bar.
Featuring more than 100 student s ...
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19 September, 2018
ARC Living Masters™
Richard Whitney and
Marina Dieul and ARC Associate Living Master™
Ed Little will be exhibiting work at Francesca Anderson Fine Art, 56 Adams St., Lexington,& ...
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3 August, 2018
The Bennett Prize, created in 2018, awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings, which will travel the country. The Prize will propel ...
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8 January, 2019
A new article was recently published in Quillette by TRAC Chair, Michael Pearce, titled "The Avant Garde’s Slide into Irrelevance".
"Many adherents to the aesthetics of the ...
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14 August, 2019
The bi-monthly PleinAir Salon competition brought to you by Plein Air Magazine is now open for submissions. The first place winner of the bi-monthly competition will receive a $1,000 cash ...
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5 May, 2017
The ARC Approved Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art is holding an exhibition of full-time student work. Enjoy and purchase prints, drawings, watercolors, oils, and sculptures of figurative, still life ...
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ARC Approved Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts is holding a scholarship competition for new full-time students.
The scholarship is for one year's tuition ($9,000 value) at The Atelier Studio Program ...
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In conjunction with the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association's Art-A-Whirl weekend, The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts is holding its annual Full-Time Student Show. In addition t ...
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2 April, 2018
The Atelier Studio of Art is holding an Art Studio Sale. Original artwork will be for sale as well as model stands, cast stands, easels, drawing table and assorted art related stuff including flat f ...
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16 May, 2019
The ARC Approved Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art is holding their annual Full Time Student Show. This year the theme is "Work in Progress, an Educational Experience" and celebrates the ...
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12 May, 2010
The ARC Approved™ Ashland Academy of Art is pleased to announce that it is moving to Maui.
With a new name and a new location, Atelier Maui will bring superior classical European instruction in ...
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20 September, 2023
When James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of his mother, Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler, was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1881, few could have predicted that it would one day ...
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28 January, 2014
The Florence Academy of Art will be offering a special workshop focused on The artist in art, as art. Jack Rosenberg award-winning artist and guest instructor will be teaching two one-week sessions ...
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6 October, 2021
Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present THE ART OF NELLIE GAIL MOULTON, a retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings created by Nellie ...
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15 September, 2015
ARC Living Master™ James Gurney is the artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia. He specializes in painting realistic images of scenes that can't be photographed, from ...
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23 June, 2015
This exhibition of Dadd's work, the most ambitious in decades, will tell his extraordinary story of genius, psychosis and eventual philosophical resignation to his fate. It will bring together some of ...
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2 August, 2013
Some of you may have already noticed, that although we still have our drop down menus, if you click on the words ARC Home, Philosophy, Membership, Articles, Museum, etc. located under the ARC Lo ...
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17 September, 2024
The Art Renewal Center is proud to announce its list of semi-finalists in the 17th International ARC Salon Competition. 1,970 works have been accepted as semi- finalists, about 40% of e ...
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29 January, 2015
The 2014-2015 International ARC Salon entry period is almost over, but there is still time to submit works!This year, we are offering more prizes and opportunities than ever. For the first time we wi ...
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24 May, 2014
ARC is pleased to present the winners of the 2013/2014 International Salon Competition. With an approximate 2200 entries this year by over 1,000 artists, the 2013/2014 ARC Salon competition was more ...
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10 February, 2014
Heroes, Villains, Myths & LegendsThis exhibit will be the second significant concentration of works in New York City from The Ani Art Academies' instructors, current apprentices, alumni and associat ...
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17 April, 2012
The Angel Academy of Art moved on April 10th into a new home in one of Florence's beloved neighborhoods close to the city center. They have invested in the long-term future of the Academy by conso ...
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24 May, 2019
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Ruskin, the most influential art critic of the Victorian era, more than 90 paintings, watercolors, and drawings created by American artis ...
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The American Artists Professional League, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their Spring Members Show and Sale. The show consists of an exceptional collection of paintings, drawings, graphics, an ...
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20 February, 2014
The Academy of Realist Art, Boston announces its second annual scholarship competition for promising artists with a love for the academic style of painting and drawing.This ARC Approved Academy help ...
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2 April, 2009
5th International 2009/2010 ARC Salon Competition ResultsThe Art Renewal Center is proud to present the award winners and finalists in our fifth International ARC Salon®: Competition. This year we ...
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6 October, 2020
The Museum of Western Art is proud to host the 37th Annual Roundup Art Exhibition & Sale. This invitational exhibition features over 100 works by leading artists in the western genre, including ...
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19 February, 2013
Plein Air Magazine, the master mind behind the The 2nd Annual Plein Air Convention and Expo are now taking reservations to participate in what they are calling the largest artist gathering in history. ...
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7 September, 2023
The Art Renewal Center is proud to announce the winners of the 23rd annual ARC Scholarship Competition. $27,500 in direct scholarships to aid students at ARC Approved® art academy and atelier sc ...
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13 May, 2019
This year, we are holding our 20th ARC Scholarship Competition. At ARC, we view our scholarship program as one of the most important. In order for future generations to produce great art, we must no ...
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25 November, 2015
ARC is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 2014/2015 International Salon Competition. With an approximate 2,500 entries this year by over 1,050 artists, the competition was steeper tha ...
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The California Art Club is presenting the 109th installment of the Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, its signature event that has the distinction of spanning two pandemics. This virtual exhibition will ...
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18 August, 2010
Good morning Fred.
I just posted on my facebook page your Portrait Society speech a number of years ago on academic art and relevance. It stirred up some great debate and today I reread the speec ...
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22 December, 2008
To everyone at Art Renewal,What a pleasure it is to see realism making such a comeback. When I was in school there was such a lack of traditional teaching methods and technical training. I wasn't even ...
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19 June, 2019
Established in 1982 by Paul Ingbretson, the
Ingbretson Studio of Drawing and Painting provides a direct link to the Nineteenth Century Boston School approach to painting, which includes instructio ...
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9 May, 2019
Thank you to the Florence Academy of art for sponsoring the Fully From Life Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
The Florence Academy of Art, one of the Art Renewal ...
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26 June, 2019
Thank you to Academy of Realist Art, Boston for sponsoring the Portraiture Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
The Academy of Realist Art, Boston was established in the histor ...
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31 May, 2019
Thank you to
Studio Incamminati for sponsoring the Drawing Category in the 14th International ARC Salon.
For more than a decade, Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art, has bee ...
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Thank you to the
PleinAir Magazine and Plein Air Convention & Expo for sponsoring the Plein Air Paintings Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
PleinAir Magazine i ...
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12 June, 2019
Thank you to Laguna College of Art and Design for sponsoring the Imaginative Category in the 14th International ARC Salon Competition.
Laguna College of Art and Design's Fine Arts department offers ...
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22 May, 2019
Thank you to BoldBrush for sponsoring the Figurative Category in the 14th International ARC Salon.
BoldBrush is a free online art guild for visual artists. They offer a free daily member newsl ...
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4 April, 2008
Dear Mr. Ross,I too am staggered by the art of Bouguereau and for the past two weeks have been obsessed with coming to grips with and redefining the "new" nature of late 19th century art and his ...
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6 September, 2011
"Thank you for your wonderful website. I enjoyed reading the “Philosophy” section of your website immensely, and was truly educated by what I found there.
I have always been awestruck and moved by ...
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31 January, 2008
Thank you for the gift of Bouguereau. Without your efforts I would know nothing about the greatest painter of human beings in history. The world is a better place because of your work.Fred SimonJanuar ...
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4 April, 2008
I would like to first thank you all for providing such a huge gallery to study from and look at. I have been very pleased to see classical realism being pushed and even advertised over the years chec ...
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27 February, 2018
The 9th Annual Group Show will feature new works by some of the finest Texas artists living and working today including ARC Associate Living Master Mary Ross Buchholz.
The artist reception will b ...
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24 February, 2021
ARC Associate Living Master Mary Ross Buchholz will be among the exhibiting artists at the Texas Masters show.
The exhibition takes place from March 6 - 27, 2021 at the Insight Gallery, 214 We ...
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21 March, 2017
The ARC Approved™ Texas Academy of Figurative Art is holding their Spring Gallery Night Reception on Saturday, March 25th, 2017 from 5 - 9 pm. Works by the students and faculty of TAFA will be on view ...
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1 September, 2016
The Texas Academy of Figurative Art, an ARC Approved™ School and a sponsor of this year's ARC Salon, is holding an exhibition of new work by the artists of the school titled "Balance and Beauty" ...
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The Texas Academy of Figurative Art is one of the only full-time fine art academies in Texas that is focused exclusively on classical realist drawing and painting.
TAFA offers an atelier experience fo ...
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4 March, 2008
ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a Three Month Intensive Portrait Program at the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont CaliforniaNovember 10, 2008-February 14, 2009Learn More and Register ...
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12 October, 2007
Drawing the Human BodySix Week Residency ProgramWith ARC Master Ted Seth JacobsNovember 5 - December 14, 2007Click here for more information. ...
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29 September, 2008
ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a Three Month Intensive Portrait Program at the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont CaliforniaNovember 10, 2008-February 13, 2009Three-month intensive p ...
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25 January, 2008
ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a Master Residency Workshop at the Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont California January 14-February 22, 2008Follow the light and learn the style of hu ...
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5 October, 2009
ARC Master Virgil Elliot has updated his Technical Column on ARC." Since I wrote my previous technical column, several important discoveries have been made that serious oil painters should know ab ...
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10 September, 2010
Rachel-Lucille by Director Rob ZellerTeaching Studios of Art, with locations in Oyster Bay and Brooklyn, NY is now Arc Approved™Teaching Studios of Art faculty includes Rob Zeller, Patricia Watw ...
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18 November, 2011
The Baroque Portrait with Adam Miller at TSA's Oyster Bay studio December 15th - 17th, 2011
This unique workshop is designed to help artists of any level of skill and experience draw and p ...
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26 June, 2018
Tales From A Studio is a Solo Exhibition by ARC Associate Living Master™
Vicki Sullivan from Mornington Peninsula.
Sullivan’s work includes portraits of favorite muses and local identities, ...
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15 October, 2020
Throughout the history of art, birds have been represented as the embodiment of humanity’s hopes and dreams.
Taking Flight is Rehs Contemporary’s annual event partnering with the Art Rene ...
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29 March, 2023
The Texas Academy of Figurative Art is holding their spring salon of student and faculty artworks. The Spring Salon is an exhibition of contemporary realist works that range from classical Old Master ...
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20 March, 2018
Texas Academy of Figurative Art, an ARC Approved Atelier, is holding their Spring Gallery Night on March 24, 2018. Work by students and teachers will be on display.
The show is being held at 415 ...
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8 September, 2016
The Texas Academy of Figurative Art is pleased to sponsor the first, second and third place awards for the Portraiture Category in the ARC Salon. TAFA was founded in 2007, and is the only fine art aca ...
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30 April, 2015
The Texas Academy of Figurative Art will be hosting a free educational event this weekend at TAFA Studios & Gallery, 415 South Main Street, Fort Worth, TX 76104
On May 1st, 6:30 to 8 pm, there will ...
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14 March, 2016
The ARC Approved™ Texas Academy of Figurative of Art is holding an open studio and will display the recent work of TAFA artists. The event takes place on March 19 from 4 - 9 pm. The Texas Academy of ...
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8 September, 2017
The Texas Academy of Figurative Art is holding their gallery night on Saturday, September 9, 2017 from 5-9 pm.Works by recent TAFA graduates will be exhibited.Texas Academy of Figurative Art is locate ...
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17 March, 2022
Enjoy the works of students and faculty of the Texas Academy of Figurative Art. The Spring Salon is an exhibition of Contemporary Realist works that range from classical Old Master copies an ...
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7 April, 2016
The fourth collaboration between Rehs Contemporary and the ARC Approved™ Ani Art Academies takes its title from the fascinating perceptual phenomenon known as Synesthesia. Each work in this unique col ...
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10 February, 2025
Join SARA teachers and students for an hour to find out more about the program, student life, finding housing, funding etc. Viewers are welcome to send questions during the stream.
Wednesday, Fe ...
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23 January, 2019
Following her success in the Pastel 100 and Strokes of Genius competitions last year, ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron was invited to be a featured artist in the special 20th anniversary ...
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7 January, 2021
ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron is featured in the Colored Pencil Magazine, with her drawing ‘Iona and Cocoa’ selected for the cover of January 2021 Issue. Inside there is a 6-page arti ...
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13 October, 2016
ARC Associate Living Master™ Svetlana Cameron has had her conte and pastel portrait “Daniel” is published in the 8th volume of Strokes of Genius. A celebration of creative drawing, the Strokes o ...
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2 June, 2017
Two portraits by ARC Associate Living Master™ Svetlana Cameron are going on public display at the famous Bankside Gallery in hames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street, London. SE1 9JH from June 6-18, 2017.Th ...
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14 November, 2019
ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron has recently been featured in Artists and Illustrators magazine.
In the article, she discusses a Renaissance approach to drawing, including the principl ...
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8 July, 2016
ARC Associate Living Master™ Svetlana Cameron is holding a solo show titled "Laa Tinvaal". Included in the show is a new portrait of the President of Tynwald, Clare Christian OBE.The exhibition is bei ...
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1 July, 2008
Did you know that...The Foundation for the Art Renewal Center, a 501(c) 3 educational foundation was founded in 1999 to present responsible opposing views to the modernist art establishment.As a non-p ...
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30 October, 2020
Superhero
Inspiring pop culture for decades, superheroes have a prolific impact on our imaginations. They beg the question: if you could have a superpower, what would it be?
ARC Living Master Loui ...
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6 February, 2024
Showcasing prints and drawings from Genoa's golden age, this display spotlights an artistic powerhouse that rivalled Venice, Florence and Rome.
From the 16th to the 18th centuries, the port city of Ge ...
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1 October, 2020
ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt has been announced finalist at the Sunny Art Prize London 2020 and will exhibit her work at the Sunny Art Centre, London, a prestigious art institution with an extraord ...
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29 September, 2022
The Durand-Hedden House presents "Sunday in the Park with Asher", a plein air painting event on Sunday October 2nd (rain day the following Sunday Oct. 9th).
Enjoy this special one-day community event ...
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16 July, 2012
All prints on ARC are now 15% off. To take advantage of this discount, please type in the coupon code box at checkout arcfriends. To browse though our archives of over 75,000 works to find the perfec ...
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24 February, 2023
Florence Classical Arts Academy - April 11 – September 29, 2023
This course is designed for people who would like to receive the foundation training in Visual Arts and is held in Florence and op ...
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30 April, 2018
New this year, the “Summer Drawing Scholarship Competition” offers an opportunity for young fine art students and practicing artists to apply for a space in the Barnes Atelier summer drawin ...
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29 March, 2018
This year, The Barnes Atelier will be breaking down their atelier drawing program process into 4 unique and intensive workshop weeks. Taking place between July 30 - August 24, 2018, each week-long w ...
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20 May, 2024
Studio Incamminati's curriculum is renowned for its efficacy both in giving beginners a solid set of skills and in enabling professionals to reach new levels of expertise. Besides the accredited ...
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19 March, 2020
After realizing that many visitors to the ARC website wanted to better understand the history of 19th century academic painting and the various movements and key players, Kara Lysandra Ross, AR ...
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