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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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This is the first ever exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance painter Francesco Pesellino. Active in Florence in the mid-15th century, Pesellino achieved a notable career but his early death at ...

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The ARC Approved Kline Academy of Fine Art is offering a unique 5 day Pixel Glazing Portrait workshop. Developed by acclaimed artist Lo Chan Peng, this original workshop teaches a multi-day system to ...

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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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This exhibition explores the creation of Parmigianino’s 'The Madonna and Child with Saints', also known as ‘The Vision of Saint Jerome’. It returns to public display for the first time in 10 years fol ...

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Gabriel de Saint-Aubin was a prolific and unconventional draftsman. As an observer and chronicler, he recorded the full spectrum of Paisian daily life in his sketchbooks, from shop interiors to art au ...

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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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Discover the origins of the Impressionist art movement in a new look at the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting. This exhibition is a remarkable presentation of 130 works a ...

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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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Join Robyn Asquini for a 3-day workshop where participants will immerse ourselves in the vibrant world of the renowned Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Over the course of three days, student ...

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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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From the Bader Collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes a remarkable selection of seventeenth century Dutch paintings. Shown in dialogue with paintings from ...

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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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"Our World Re-Imagined" is the Northern California Chapter’s first virtual exhibition with the California Art Club (CAC). This exhibition’s theme is to inspire the artists to visually int ...

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Known for his hyper-realistic painting style, ARC Living Master™ Orley Ypon portrays crowds of cavorting bodies rising from the sea or in a seemingly endless race to nowhere.The paintings in this sh ...

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of its dedication, the Kenneth Jay Lane Gallery is the setting for 26 paintings that have been promised or given to The Met by Mr. Lane. The European artists rep ...

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ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott will be teaching an upcoming figure drawing workshop in his new studio in Petaluma, California.(40 miles north of San Francisco, in Northern California's Wine Count ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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After several recent requests, ARC Living Master™ Shaun Downey, has decided to host a series of portrait drawing workshops in his studio in Toronto. There will be two different sessions avail ...

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For all interested artists, a rare opportunity has arisen to study with ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott, who has an opening for a few new part-time students. Painter/writer Virgil Elliott (born 194 ...

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ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore will be teaching a 5 day workshop, "Landscape Painting: Beyond the Photograph". Light is the ultimate designer and the focus of this intensive course. The essentials o ...

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ARC Living Master™ Virgil Elliott will be teaching a three-day portrait/head study workshop, to be held August 21st, 22nd and 23rd at Linda Schroeter's studio at 21001 Geyserville Avenue, in G ...

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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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Operation Night Watch is the largest research and conservation project ever on Rembrandt's "The Night Watch". The Rijksmuseum invites members of the public to watch the entire process at t ...

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Openings are currently available at the ARC Approved™ Aristides Atelier at Gage Academy of Art for the 2014-15 academic year. Located in Seattle, Washington, and led by celebrated artist, author an ...

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Grand Central Atelier is inviting all high school students interested in learning more about studying art to attend portrait drawing session from a live, clothed model alongside the instructors. No ...

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On Saturday, March 16, the Florence Academy of Art in Sweden is opening their facilities for future applicants to view the facility and learn about their three year intensive program. The Florence ...

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On-Track Studios, home of the ARC Approved Cumberland Atelier, is holding an open house. This beautiful building is located in a country setting with views all around. Visitors will have the opportu ...

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LAAFA Open House December 11th, 2010:Instructor: Ignat Ignatov5pm to 9pm   Open House Holiday Art Show and Silent AuctionVisit LAAFA for a complimentary drawing or painting uninstructed ...

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The Academy of Fine Art Germany, Im Atzelnest 3, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany will hold an Open Day on Saturday June 3, 2023.  There will be a guided tour of the building, insights into teac ...

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In summer 2018, Crooked Tree Arts Center - Traverse City is proud to be the exclusive presenter of the the Oil Painters of America Juried Salon Show. The OPA represents over 4,000 oil painters from ...

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Oil Painters of America, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their 2019 Eastern Regional Exhibition at the Beverly McNeil Gallery, 605 28th St S Birmingham, Alabama. ARC Associate Livi ...

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OPA 27th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils is one of the finest display of reprsentational oil paintings. The jurying process strives to select paintings that show the highe ...

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OPA 27th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils is one of the finest display of reprsentational oil paintings. The jurying process strives to select paintings that show the highe ...

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We are only 1 week away from the deadline to enter the 14th International ARC Salon Competition. Please be sure to get your entries in by end of day PST on March 15th! When talking about comp ...

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The 2007 ARC Salon Catalogs are NOW AT THE PRINTERS.See Contemporary Realism at its best!The artworks submitted to the ARC International Salon continue to astonish. The ARC Salon, a virtual version of ...

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2013 ARC Scholarship Competition2nd Place WinnerTeresa by Sarah Margaret GibsonAs a final reminder, we will be accepting entries for the ARC Scholarship Competition through May 31, 2015.At ARC, we vie ...

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12 April, 2013

There are only 18 days left before the unveiling of the winning and finalist works of the 2012/2013 ARC Salon. Be sure to visit ARC on April 30th to see the results. With an approximate 2000 entrie ...

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The ARC Approved Florence Classical Arts Academy offers a One-Year Course, which can then be extended into the full Three-Year Course https://www.artac.org/diploma-in-visual-arts. This course provi ...

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Winter Enrollment Intensive Program - January 31, 2022 Summer Intake Intensive - April 12, 2022 - September 30, 2022 (with a 2 week break in August) This course is a long and intensive program o ...

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As many of you may have seen the deadline for the 14th International ARC Salon Competition was extended until 12:00 noon PST on March 31st, 2019. Don’t miss the opportunity to partake in the larg ...

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In the 17th century, frigid winters and unusually cool summers blanketed northern Europe in what became known as the Little Ice Age. Dutch artists depicted this persistent global cooling in scenes of ...

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On the Training of Painters: The Atelier's Past and Present September 1st to October 14th 2011 This exhibition will include work from over 90 Atelier painters, including ARC Living Master ...

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Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers has recently republished a panel discussion titled: On the Cutting Edge of Post Modern Art which took place in November, ...

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The Florence Academy of Art U.S. (FAA) is excited to present ‘On Paper, An exhibition of Drawings’, held at the FAA U.S.’s Mana Contemporary location. This exhibition opens on Sunday, April 29th and ...

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   A GoodArt post by Fred Ross:Why do you have to be a painter of your time?The greatest artists speak to all people of all times.They capture aspects of what it means to be human which ...

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The goal of the show is to assemble the finest display of approximately 200 representational oil paintings. The focus in the jurying process was to select paintings that show the highest quality in ...

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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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Over 25 pieces illustrating ARC Associate Living Master Charles Gilbert Kapsner's 50-year artistic journey will be on view at Studio Pintura Fine Art.  Kapsner is known for his diverse repertoire ...

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TIAC Academy will host Odd Nerdrum Painting Workshops from November 4-9, 2019 at TIAC Studio, Via Luna 8r, Florence, Italy. TIAC has decided to extend the special 10% discount for one more month to ...

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