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Pre-order your copy of the 12th International ARC Salon Catalogue today!This catalogue will include images of all finalist works by all 640 artists. This book will also serve as our official exhibiti ...

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With an approximate 2200 entries this year by over 1,000 artists, the 2013/2014 ARC Salon competition was steeper then ever. This year we have accepted 685 finalists, which are the top 31% of works ...

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The 15th International ARC Salon Book contains over a thousand stunning traditional artworks, from the forefront of the 21st Century Realist Art Movement. Including numerous full-page plates and des ...

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"Well Fred your philosophy statement was just too good . In fact at times, tears could come. It is so close to being perfect that any kind of critique would be nit-picking. As a full time profession ...

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16 September, 2011

"I just read parts of your 2001 lecture 'Good Art, Bad Art: Pulling Back the Curtain'. I was impressed... The simple distinction of art about art, and art about life, is clear and concise. Well done ...

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31 August, 2011

"Finding your website, and reading your philosophy and purpose, and genuinely understanding what you are doing, and why, is a welcome relief and encouragement to a person suffocating in contemporary " ...

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9 November, 2018

Power and Piety presents exquisite paintings, sculpture, silver pieces, furniture and decorative devotional objects made in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the Americas from the late 17th to ...

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During the Hellenistic period from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. until the establishment of the Roman Empire in 31 B.C., the medium of bronze drove artistic innovation. Sculptors move ...

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This exhibition presents a selection of paintings by two leading Mornington Peninsula-based portrait artists - ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan and Fiona Bilbrough. The paintings by Sulliva ...

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The ARC Allied Organization, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, is holding a show called "Portraits of Heroes". 14 CSOPA members bring their professional skills to honor workers in h ...

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Over this five-day workshop at the Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art, students will methodically examine the structure of the head and neck through a series of group demonstrations and indi ...

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Gary Christensen, author of The Richard F. Lack Catalogue Raisonné, will present illustrated lectures on the works of Richard Lack.Lack's portraits will be presented chronologically and will include t ...

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ARC Approved MIFA is hosting a five day portrait painting workshop with Jesus E Villarreal which explores techniques and methods used during the 19th century academies. Concentrating for the whol ...

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Portrait Painting with David Gray Workshop runs from 4/1/2019 - 4/5/2019 at the ARC ApprovedSM Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art. David's signature style reveals a personal and contemporary expression ...

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Dates - Friday, February 24th & Sunday, 26th, 2023 Time- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Location - Kline Academy of Art, 3264 Motor Ave, LA 90034 Historically, copper supports were for many art ...

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Join the ARC Approved Princeton Academy of Art and Leon Okun for a week-long portrait painting master class. Okun's painting style merges the traditional European classical approach with the bold colo ...

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ARC Living Master™ Richard Wheeler Whitney, has completed a portrait of Governer Mitt Romney which will remain in the collection of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts.Portrai ...

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We wanted to share with our ARC Fans a recent portrait by ARC Living Master™ Cesar Santos, of the Art Renewal Center Chairman Fred Ross. About the portrait, Mr. Ross said the following: “My fami ...

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26 April, 2019

Portrait Now! 2019 displays the best contributions from the 7th edition of the The Carlsberg Foundation’s Portrait Award competition. Artists in the competition come from the Nordic countries, Russ ...

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24 September, 2019

ARC Associate Living Master Jon Bøe Paulsen is part of the Portrait Now 2019 juried exhibition for the second time with the self portrait "Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man". The Nordic port ...

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7 May, 2021

Congratulations to ARC Living Master Jon Boe Paulsen for winning first place in the "Portrait Now" competition for his painting "The Last Letter". Portrait Now is the Nordic reg ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Anastasiya Chybireva Fender is hosting a free three hour virtual charcoal drawing demonstration with Q and A on March 16, 2021 from 6-9 PM. She will demonstrate drawing ...

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ARC Living Master Gilberto Geraldo will be holding a Portrait Drawing Master Class at the Princeton Academy of Art. The master class will begin with a portrait drawing demo done by Gilberto. Studen ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Elizabeth Barden has been selected as a finalist for the $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, for the 6th time, with her portrait ‘Jaya-ism’.  The Por ...

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Pre-Raphaelite painter and women’s rights campaigner Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891) was an early female participant in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Landscape was Bodichon’s preferred genre ...

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PoetsArtists has published a commemorative catalogue of the artworks chosen by eminent Art Advisor, writer, speaker, and former Chief Curator from the IBEX Collection, Kiki Kim. The catalogue features ...

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Figurative Realism curated by Dirk Dzimirsky PoetsArtists Magazine is calling for entries for the December 2018 issue. This is the magazine's 100th issue and will be dedicated to Figurative Rea ...

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PoetsArtists Magazine has extended the deadline of the Painting the Figure now competition until April 15, 2018.  Information about the competition can be found here.      The ...

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PoetsArtists + 33 Contemporary invite visitors to explore “Painting the Figure Now”, a new exhibition curated by David Hummer and Didi Menendez, with guest curator F. Scott Hess, opening at Waus ...

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Marie Spartali Stillman was one of the few professional female artists working in the second half of the 19th century. She was an important presence in the Victorian art world and closely affiliated w ...

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1 July, 2020

ARC Associate Living Master Tom Kegler is holding a solo exhibition of work at Meibohm Fine Arts, 478 Main Street, East Aurora NY 14052 from June 26 - August 8, 2020.  The gallery is open by ap ...

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ONLY 4 MORE DAYS LEFT TO ENTER. The distinguished art dealer John Pence is judging the competition and the deadline is August 31, 2012. Merchandise and promotional opportunities will be aw ...

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2 July, 2020

The first global virtual plein air experience brought to you by the creators of the PleinAir Convention and PleinAir Magazine. A virtual pleinair painting event that can be experienced in the safety ...

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7 May, 2018

ARC Associate Living Master™ Roger Dale Brown will be the Keynote Speaker at Plein Air South in 2018.  This event was designed to build community and share knowledge among the plein air painte ...

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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists. Artists from Germany and Scandinavia often t ...

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1st Place - $1,000 Prize Esker Park Weymouth by Vincent Crotty The winners of the PleinAir Salon bi-monthly competition, which is organized by PleinAir Magazine, have been announced. The winners wil ...

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The winners for the June/July PleinAir Salon Competition, which is organized by PleinAir Magazine, have been revealed. The winners will receive cash prizes, plus all winners and category wi ...

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In this 3 day workshop, students will explore the principles of landscape painting. The workshop will focus on the concepts of composition, light organization, aerial and linear perspective, color m ...

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This award is sponsored by Streamline Publishing. One artist, who paints in a plein air style, will be chosen to have a feature article done on their work in Plein Air Magazine. This award will be c ...

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Join over 700 hundred painters of all levels for the 3rd Annual Plein Air Convention & Expo. The program is focused around three of painting's most popular media - oil, water-based, and pastels. The ...

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The Plein Air Convention & Expo is the world’s largest plein air event. It’s like the Woodstock of outdoor painting. By attending the 2018 Plein Air Convention, you’ll make personal connections ...

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PleinAir magazine is centered around the worldwide outdoor painting movement. Published bi-monthly, the magazine focuses on the highest-quality painters who do studio and outdoor landscape, figure in ...

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The National Gallery of Art, located on 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, DC is exhibiting the works of Joachim Wtewael. A masterful storyteller, Wtewael was a virtuoso draftsman a ...

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Please help ARC support our approved ateliers and provide scholarships for students who study the techniques of the past, thereby acquiring the tools needed to create great contemporary works. Help ...

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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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Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With a collection of over 150 pieces and grow ...

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11 November, 2022

Plaster drawing casts for sale. Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Kendall is making affordable plaster casts for art students, teachers, and collectors. Fill your studio and home with work by history's g ...

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Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With a collection of 120 pieces and growing - ...

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22 April, 2021

Affordable plaster casts available for students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. Artist Justin Kendall’s goal is to help introduce people to the tradition of classical sc ...

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26 August, 2021

Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With an ever-expanding collection of casts, ...

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4 November, 2021

Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall has a large collection of plaster casts for drawing. His goal is to make casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history - all at ...

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February 1, 2015 - May 3, 2015National Gallery of Art - 6th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC The first major retrospective exhibition ever presented on the imaginative Italian Renaissa ...

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26 February, 2019

ARC Associate Living Master™, Tina Garrett, is holding her first ever solo oil painting show, "Pieces of Me” featuring an intimate look into the unbounded inspiration Tina finds in her wide ran ...

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The Pre-Raphaelites and 19th-Century England's Other Visionaries: Fantasy Artists Ahead of Their Time? with Peter Trippi - Sunday afternoon, July 22, 2012. The Allentown Art Museum - 31 North Fifth ...

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Peter Trippi, Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, will lecture at the ARC Approved™ Atelier:The Harlem Studio of Art508 East 117th StreetNew York CityJune 11, 2007 6-8:30pm.There will be time ...

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2 November, 2015

ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore will be exhibiting a new series of his oil paintings. The show runs from November 7 - 29, 2015 and is being held at the Travis Gallery, 6089 Lower York Road (Route 202 ...

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27 October, 2017

ARC Living Master Peter Fiore recently gave an interview with Antrese Wood for The Savvy Painter Podcast.To listen to this podcast, please click here. https://savvypainter.com/podcast/light-art-p ...

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ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore has a solo show of his work open this month at the Travis Gallery, 6089 Lower York Road Route 202, New Hope, PA 18938. The exhibition, Subjects Emerge, will run from N ...

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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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ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore is holding a solo exhibition entitled "Pine Variations" at the Delaware Valley Arts Center’s Alliance Gallery located on 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY 12764.The ...

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Since 2007, the biennial Percival Portrait Painting Prize is an open competition for Australian artists. The competition showcases the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by Au ...

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Having begun in 2007, "The Percivals" is an open competition for artists. While showcasing the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by Australian artists, the competiti ...

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Congratulations to Jesser Valzacchi, for his painting "Remnants of the Past in Contemporary Freedom", for winning of the first ever People's Choice Award. For the first seven days after th ...

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Results for the People's Choice Award in the 16th International ARC Salon Competition are in! 12,626 votes were cast by 5,989 registered members. The winning work, Sister in the Maze of Flowers, by Si ...

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Congratulations to David Gomez for winning the People’s Choice Award in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition for his work of “Isolated”. For the first seven days after the ARC Salo ...

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15 November, 2012

Congratulations to Paul Oxborough who has been honored in the November issue of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine in a "Today's Master" feature article. This is the same issue that features an article on ...

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Paul W. McCormack5-Day Watercolor Portrait in Watercolor WorkshopOctober 8-12, 2007Take this opportunity to learn from nationally recognized portrait artist and ARC Master, Paul W. McCormack.Students ...

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Paul Ingbretson, head of the ARC ApprovedSM Ingbretson Academy of Drawing and Painting has recently released a video about Cognitive Science and Truth in Painting. "Hitting the note is not a m ...

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Paul Ingrebtson, head of the ARC Approved Ingbretson Studio of Drawing and Painting has released a new video titled "Broken Color".  Ingbretson discusses the use of broken color and s ...

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Artist Paul DeLorenzo passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at his home in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. He graduated from preparatory school ...

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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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ARC Living Master Patricia Watwood is hosting free live demos on Facebook. The Winter Sessions are composed of 10 demonstrations shown live every Wednesday at 11am - 12:30pm EST. This series will fo ...

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ARC Living Master™ Patricia Watwood is holding a solo exhibition of drawings and two large scale narrative paintings in the exhibition titled “New Narratives”.The show is being held at the Dacia Gall ...

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Norton Museum of Art - 1451 S. Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33401Drawn from the remarkable collections of the National Museum Wales, the exhibition includes approximately 65 works by renowned art ...

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Pastels From Millet to Redon will revolve around eight major themes highlighting the revival of pastel from the second half of the 19th century.   The exhibition will display the evolution o ...

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Pastel Portraits - Drawn from Life? Artists in 18th-century Europe relished the convenience and versatility of pastels to make portraits, which ranged from straightforward likenesses to imaginary rend ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the ...

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Announcing Part-Time classes at ARC Approved Atelier: The New School of Classical RealismDirector, ARC Living Artist™: Dana LevinVisit www.danalevin.com for details.Application Deadline for Fall ...

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"The Feminine Nude: Power and Beauty in Contemporary Figuration" with Courtney Jordan, Editor of Artist Daily. Participate in a round table dialogue on the female nude in art history, and discuss how ...

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Part eight in a series of 15 plus articles on French and English Academic Painting by ARC COO, Kara Lysandra Ross, has been published in the Epoch Times.This article focuses on three French artists wh ...

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Part seven in a series of 15 plus articles on French and English Academic Painting by ARC COO, Kara Lysandra Ross, has been published in the Epoch Times. This article focuses on the Barbizon School an ...

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The sixth in a series of 15 plus articles by ARC COO, Kara Lysandra Ross, has been published in the Epoch Times. This article focuses on European Art and the Influence of the French Academies."The Aca ...

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The fifth in a series of 15 plus articles by ARC COO, Kara Lysandra Ross, has been published in the Epoch Times. This article focuses on The Paris Salon."Renoir was recorded noting to his dealer, Dura ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ John Pototschnik has recently published part three of his teaching series titled “Training the 21st Century Artist”. The series features the works of ARC Living Master’s™, ...

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The Chimera by Gustave Moreau Part four in a series of 15 plus articles by ARC COO, Kara Lysandra Ross, has been published in the Epoch Times. This article is an introduction to the governing bodies ...

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9 February, 2022

This exhibition is the largest monographic exhibition ever held on Paris Bordone, 16th century Venetian artist and pupil of Titian. The variety and richness of his work is shown through his sensual p ...

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5 October, 2022

Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present Parallel Disasters, an exhibition of paintings. Tornados engulfing the skies above familiar suburban landscapes, ...

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ARC Living Masters™ Jacob Collins and Patricia Watwood, and artists Stephen Bauman and Anthony Mastromatteo will be holding a panel discussion moderated by Dale Zinkowski at the Salmagundi Club, 47 ...

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Spanning 75 years across the Victorian and Edwardian ages, the exhibition showcases the experimental beginnings of photography right through to its flowering as an independent international art form. ...

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The European Museum of Modern Art will be presenting 'Painting Today', an international exhibition of contemporary realist figurative painting. The MEAM has commissioned curator Didi Menendez, from ...

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PoetsArtists Magazine is holding Painting the Figure Now, a competition for quality paintings that investigate the many ways we see the human figure today; contemporary approaches to portraiture, na ...

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This PoetsArtists International Exhibition is curated by Didi Menendez and David Hummer with guest curators Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt. ARC Living Master Anna Wypch is among ...

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Painting the Figure Now is an exhibition of paintings that investigate the many ways we see the human figure today, showing contemporary approaches to portraiture, narrative, and any and all vi ...

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For two years, ARC Living Artist Laurie Anspach has been volunteering her painting skills to various causes and would like to invite other artists to donate their time and skills for the betterment o ...

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A new portrait of HM Queen Silvia has been donated to the Swedish National Portrait Gallery. The portrait was a gift from a number of corporate and private donors in honour of the Queen’s 70th b ...

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150 years after the Smithsonian gallery housing his paintings burned to the ground, premier painter of the American West, John Mix Stanley, is receiving a long overdue retrospective exhibition.Featu ...

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The vitality and inventiveness of artists in eighteenth-century New Spain (Mexico) is the focus of this exhibition, which presents some 110 works of art (primarily paintings), many of which are unpu ...

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12 July, 2019

The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization, and The Old Mill Foundation will mark the 20th anniversary of their gallery partnership with a celebratory “Paint/Sculpt-Out” at the historic sit ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Paige Bradley is holding a solo exhibition and sculpture demonstration at Gallery D'May located on 401 Washington St, Cape May, NJ 08204. The exhibition runs from June 26 ...

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With Recent Additions to the ARC website, ARC now has over 7000 Artists in the ARC MuseumIn our continued efforts to expand the ARC Museum, hundreds of new artists and artworks have been added in rec ...

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