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The Board of Art Education in the State of Washington, the Washington Art Education Association (WAEA), has just officially endorsed The Da Vinci Initiative. The Da Vinci Initiative has been working ...

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A Victorian Obsession presents 50 exceptional paintings by many of the leading artists of the Victorian period within the extraordinary interiors of Leighton House Museum. The pictures all belong to ...

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23 July, 2014

Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ Gordon Hanley, who is featured in the July edition Australian Artist Magazine. Gordon's work is also featured on the cover.The article details the process of cr ...

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Attention Mingled with Fearby François RudeGods and Heroes will be a rich overview of masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, the original school of fine arts in Paris, France, and a repository ...

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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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Portrait of Mark by Jamie CorethEach year, the ARC Approved Florence Academy of Art adds excitement to their curriculum by holding an informal competition among their students and awarding one stude ...

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17 July, 2014

For the first time in my life I have applied for the Art Renewal Salon 2014 and really did not expect anything to come out of it. To my great surprise, not only did I make it as a finalist, but both ...

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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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July 10 - 22, 2014Victorian Artists Society Galleries430 Albert St East Melbourne, Victoria 3002Australia We are happy to announce that ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan will be exhibiting ...

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14 July, 2014

Skin Deep by Darren KingsleyThe Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops this summer and fall. Some of the summer workshops that still having remaining spot ...

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May 20 - October 26, 2014Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)New York, NY 10028Le Chant d'Amour by Burne-JonesThis exhibition will highlight the second wave of the Pre-Raphae ...

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Twilight Calm by Sergio RoffoNorth Water Gallery - 27 North Water Street, Edgartown, MA 02539 ARC Associate Living Master™ Sergio Roffo will have an exhibition of works focusing on Martha's Vineya ...

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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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Veil of Expressions 2by Marcos DamascenaMarcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia in 1981 and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest na ...

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July 12 - August 20, 2014La Casa del Berlingaio (Stazzema) and the Palazzo della Cultura di Stazzema (frazione di Cardoso), Stazzema, ItalyIn the 1960s, Signorina Simi's school was the only one in E ...

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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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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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An Uneven Struggle by Per Elof Nilsson RicklundThe ARC Approved™ Florence Academy has just launched a new updated version of their website with a redesigned Alumni Gallery where visitors can zoom in ...

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Hsin-Yao, having already developed a signature style, has had his work recognized by the major art magazines of today, as well as by an unprecedented number of highly prestigious galleries. Hsin-Yao ...

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Figure Drawing by Sergey ChubirkoThe mission of the Russian Academy of Art, Florence is to teach the fundamental principles, methods and techniques of classical art diligently transmitted over the c ...

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The Epoch Times, a newspaper which supports the return of skill-based training techniques to the arts as a whole and the preservation of artistic heritage won 16 awards at the annual New York Press ...

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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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"WILMINGTON, Del. --The Delaware Art Museum lost its accreditation and its ability to receive loaned works from many museums Wednesday, one day after the museum sold one of its most famous Pre-Rapha ...

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When Your Lover Has Goneby Gordon HanleyFascinated by the drawings of da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo, since 2009 Gordon Hanley's art shifted from watercolor painting to drawings in the Renaissan ...

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Streamline art video is a division of Streamline Publishing, Inc., which publishes Fine Art Connoisseur and PleinAir Magazines. The division was founded on the premise that art education is the foun ...

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Determination under Persecution by Qing Xin, winner of the gold award at NTDTV’s 3rd International Chinese Figure Painting Competition. (Courtesy of Zhengjian.org) The New Tang Dynasty Television is ...

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16 June, 2014

The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops this spring and summer. Ted Seth Jacobs will be teaching an exclusive workshop in France, June 2nd – July 3rd for ...

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Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman HuntChristie's London will be having their major Victorian Painting sale this upcoming week. The exhibition opens today and will remain open until th ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Thomas Kegler will be featured in a show at Burchfield Penney Art Center - 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. 14222. The show is titled Fly Fishing and is "A Celebration ...

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Gabrielle by Peter KelseyJune 24 - July 2, 2014The exhibition features more than 60 pieces of some of the finest in contemporary realist art from instructors, students and alumni of Studio Incammina ...

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"I really wanted to tell you that I read every word of WHY REALISM. Absolutely brilliant! Combined with your past essays exposing the fraud that is modernism, your writing has been like a concert to ...

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ARC Living Master™ Juliette Aristides is "a painter who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art." What does that mean in terms of the way she approaches her work, and the decisio ...

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Vessels by Julio Reyes"I must take the opportunity to tell you what an honor it is to be a part of your collection, and how truly grateful I am to you and to the ARC Salon Competition. ARC helped m ...

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An article on the 2013/2014 International ARC Salon was recently published by Fine Art Connoisseur. Fine Art Connoisseur will also be publishing a featured article in the November/December printed i ...

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Portrait of Pope John Paul II by Igor BabailovARC Living Master Igor Babailov was recently featured in Fine Art Connoisseur for receiving the commission to create an official likeness of Pope Franci ...

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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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In 2007 Western Art Collector became the first magazine to provide nationwide coverage of upcoming shows and auctions showcasing Western art. With the goal of bringing together galleries, living Wes ...

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Ardith Starostka has been receiving regular awards and honors for her work since 2000. In addition to being an Art Renewal Center Living Master™, Starostka is an International Guild of Realism-Signa ...

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The Da Vinci Initiative, part of a 501C3, nonprofit, educational foundation, is a mission for visual literacy in our contemporary world. With a focus on K-12 public and private schools, the goal o ...

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LAAFA will be giving scholarships to students accepted into their 3-Year Fine or Entertainment Art Program and 18-Month Foundational Track for Fall 2014. Scholarships are between $500 and $2000 ann ...

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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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The deadline for entries for the 2014 ARC Scholarship Competition is rapidly approaching. Please be sure to inform any individuals who wish to continue their studies of this opportunity. ARC Schol ...

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International Artist magazine is known as the publication written by artists for artists around the world. Launched in 1998 as a tool to help artists share their advice, the publication includes pra ...

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Barcelona Academy of ArtCast Program Barcelona Academy of Art aims at teaching drawing, painting and sculpting using a complete curriculum and teaching methods stemming from the classic- realistic t ...

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ARC Living Master™ Ted Seth Jacobs has written a definitive reference for both the professional as well as the art student. A true dictionary of human form, it provides a complete analysis and expla ...

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Faripour Forouhar's home is in New England but he grew up in the high mountains of Middle Asia. He travels to the Rockies, Alps and Andes and the shore lines in the USA and Europe yearly for his pai ...

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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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American Fine Art Magazine is a bimonthly fine art publication providing comprehensive coverage on the market for 19th- and 20th-century historic American art. Unlike other fine art publications tha ...

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The Grand Central Academy is holding a Still Life Competition from July 27 - August 1, 2014.Finalists will compete for 48 hours over 6 days to paint a still life. Participants will be allowed to bri ...

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American Art Collector, which celebrated its milestone 100th issue in February 2014, is a monthly national magazine written to bring together galleries, living representational artists and active ar ...

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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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Born in 1972 in Moscow, Russia, Olga Rybakova learned how to paint in an art studio as a childhood. Rybakova drew nature in the open air and drew animals at the zoo winning an art competition while ...

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Out in the Cold by Léon Bazile Perrault ARC Chairman Frederick C. Ross's most recent speech, Why Realism?, is being published in the Epoch Times online and in their printed paper in eleven parts."Wi ...

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Vicki Sullivan is an Australian Realist painter who focuses on portraiture.She is a member of Portrait Artists Australia and the Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters founded in 1902, ha ...

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Still Life with Japanese Fanby Dian Paramita, 2nd year studentIn addition to the ARC Scholarship Competition, Studio Incamminati will be hosting their own Scholarship event. Studio Incamminati offer ...

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We are now accepting entries to the 2014 ARC Scholarship Competition. We will be giving out yet another $30,000 in scholarship funds to students attending ARC Approved ™ Atelier and Academy Schools ...

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The Art Renewal Center® is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of the Catalog Raisonné and Biography on William Bouguereau, the first edition concluded a 30 year effort by a s ...

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30 April, 2014

Figure Study by Stephen EarlyThe Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops this spring and summer. Ted Seth Jacobs will be teaching an exclusive workshop in Fr ...

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ARC Living Master ™ Tony Pro has been working on this special project as a means of showing the real faces of contemporary cowboys, especially the faces of cowboys and ranchers in Long Valley. In al ...

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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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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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Thoughts of Whistler by Tony ProPro's influences are the likes of John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorolla and Philip Alexius de Laszlo. The California Impressionists such as Edgar Payne an ...

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Christie's NY will be holding their important 19th century painting sale on April 28. The preview will be open to the public starting on April 25th. The sale will include works by Jean-François Mill ...

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Sculpture by Richard MacDonaldARC Living Master™ Richard MacDonald, specializing in sculptures of ballerinas and acrobats and closely linked to the Cirque du Soleil and the Royal Ballet of London, w ...

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In addition to the ARC Scholarship Competition for which we will accept entries throughout the month of May, ARC Approved ™ Grand Central Academy is also hosting a competition.This New York school i ...

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Last Train Home by Tony ProA new article on The Representational Art Conference by ARC Chief Operating Officer Kara Lysandra Ross was just published in the Epoch Times. The TRAC conferences are the ...

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Two paintings by ARC Living Master ™ Han Wu Shen (Shen Hanwu) came up for sale at Sotheby's Hong Kong on April 6th, 2014. The first, Cooking Dinner, sold near the high estimate at 475,000 HKD (61,23 ...

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Bargue Drawing by Andrew BoatrightThe Texas Academy of Figurative Art is pleased to present their first Summer Teen Workshop, July 7-18. Their program and curriculum has great appeal to aspiring you ...

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April 16, 2014Join the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists for a painting demo with ARC Living Master™ Juliette Aristides on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. This event is free ...

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Sabbath by Clark GussinInfluenced by many contemporary artists, Clark felt a special affinity to Andrew Wyeth and to a lesser degree James Bama, and Norman Rockwell. The rural countryside and the pe ...

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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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With an approximate 2,200 entries this year by over 1,000 artists, the competition was steeper then ever. This year we have expanded once again to include a total of 685 finalist works. These works ...

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Unemployed On Line by Max GinsburgARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg will be having a solo exhibition of his work at Artrage Gallery - 505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse, NY from April 12 - May 24, 2014. In add ...

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Finding the Gold by David BowersARC Living Master™ David Bowers is being featured in a solo show that opens April 11, 2014Palm Avenue Fine Art - 10 South Palm Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34236To view ...

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Shane Wolf, former ARC Scholarship Winner will be featured in a solo show of over 60 framed drawings. All of the works showcased have been drawn completely from live models.The show will run from Ap ...

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Los Dos Pintores by Jose Jimenez y ArandaIn order to better assist our viewers, ARC has put together a collection of the most helpful and informative videos by ARC Living Masters and Artists™, ARC A ...

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27 March, 2014

The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier will be hosting a number of exciting workshops this spring and summer. Ted Seth Jacobs will be teaching an exclusive workshop in France, June 2nd – July 3rd for ...

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Anthony Waichulis and his artists of ARC Approved Ani Art Academy Waichulis have just released their new Language of Painting 4 disc DVD series.This is their sequel to the Language of Drawing 3 disk ...

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24 March, 2014

Read a recently added letter about whether or not the use of photography in art is a tool, a hindrance, or a cheat."Photography is probably the most controversial subject among realist painters toda ...

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"Art Students Tackle Heroes, Villains, Myths, and Legends.Poseidon meets Mr. Potatohead in Rehs collaboration with Ani Art Academies.Inspired by the top-grossing films of the past five years, Howard ...

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Vessels by Julio ReyesThe latest issue of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine features an article on ARC Living Master™ Julio Reyes and his wife Candice Bohannon. About the talented artist couple, Vanessa ...

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Originally published in the Angel Academy's blog, written by Michael John Angel himself, Angel explores color composition based on the Holbein Scheme and the Two-tone Silhouette.To view this new art ...

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Magnum Opus by James Van FossanCongratulations to ARC Associate Living Master™ James Van Fossan, who received the First Place prize at the Collection Beaux-Arts Realiste based in Montreal, Canada fo ...

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TRAC2014, A Full HouseThe Representational Art Conference that took place at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Ventura, CA last week was an event for the history books.Several articles have come out post the ...

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March 15 - March 16, 201412:30 - 4:30 p.m.See the Studio Incamminati curriculum come to life during a live painting demonstration by faculty, alumni and students. Take guided tours including the pri ...

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Master of the Mountainby Jiaming WangJiaming Wang was born in Liaoning, China in 1962. He completed his art research at Nagoya Visual Art University in 1992 in Japan. He has exhibited extensively th ...

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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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Annelle and Her Dollsby Marci OleszkiewiczARC Living Master™ Marci Oleszkiewicz will be having a solo exhibition at Gallery Russia from March 13 - 27 featuring 21 new works. Artist's Reception: Thu ...

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Now - May 11, 2014This exhibition focuses on the renowned collection of more than 1,000 Italian drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum, which includes significant works by artists Luca Camb ...

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Tomorrow, March 7th, attend the annual Gage Collector's Gala including some works by works by the Aristides Atelier! Coming in March 2014 to St. Mark's Cathedral, the event features live music and e ...

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Dobrota by Adrian GottliebThe California Art Club an ARC Allied Organization™ will present the 103rd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Ange ...

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28 February, 2014

The Representational Art Conference 2014 kicks off in Ventura, CA this coming Sunday. Kara Ross, ARC Director of Operations will be on a panel discussing the future of representational art on Wed 8: ...

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November 23, 2013 - March 2, 2014 Guild Hall - 158 Main Street, East Hampton, NY 11937The First Communion by Elizbeth NourseThis exhibition celebrates the acquisition of The First Communion, a maste ...

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The Masters of the American West show is an invitational show held every year at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, CA. It is the 17th year for this Fine Art Exhibition and Sale. It features 82 of the ...

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Art Speak, A way by which complex sounding words and concepts are used to create the illusion of something being more then it is as a method to create value, meaning and importance that drastically ...

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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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18 February, 2014

ARC has just published a speech titled "Why Realism?" given by ARC Chairman, Frederick C. Ross, on February 7, 2014 at the University of Connecticut. This was given as the Keynote Address to the Con ...

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13 February, 2014

Hello,I just wanted to say I greatly appreciate your creation of this extraordinary renaissance, revival and renewal of quality in the art world. I do not have the words to describe how exceptional ...

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Since we have limited staff and funding we can only add a certain number of images to the ARC Museum per year. If there is an artist that fits the ARC Philosophy that you would like to see added to ...

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11 February, 2014

Gary Christensen, author of Richard F. Lack Catalogue Raisonné, will present an illustrated lecture on the preliminary studies, drawings and sketches of Richard Lack, founder of The Atelier, formerl ...

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