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a blind alley likes the messenger who shines
a light at the brick wall up ahead."

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Call for Entries
The Art Renewal Center's
International 2008 ARC Salon™

Win International Recognition Overnight
Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors.

More than $44,000 in Awards
Compete and Win in 5 Categories
Award Winners and Finalists will be featured on the
Art Renewal Center website
and in our full color catalogue.

Awards

Best in Show: $10,000 cash award plus gallery space in the Museum section of the ARC's website. Gallery space will include the artist's biographical information accompanied by 1 to 5 web pages of the artist's finest works. The winner will also gain automatic acceptance as an ARC Approved Artist with exemption from the application process and $150 application fee..

The William Bouguereau Award - Emotion, Theme, and the Figure: $3,000

5 First Place Awards: $2,500 awarded in each category
5 Second Place Awards: $1,000 awarded in each category
5 Third Place Awards: $500 awarded in each category

Chairman's Choice Award: 2 Awarded at $500 each

ARC Staff Award: 4 Awarded at $100 each

People's Choice Award: $100 cash award. Winner will be selected by the public from the top 100 finalists through an online voting system at www.artrenewal.org.

Minimum of $10,000 in Purchase Awards
Works do not have to be for sale to be eligible for the competition. Purchase awards will be chosen from the finalists by our four judges and awarded at the sole discretion of the ARC's Chairman, Fred Ross.

30 Honorable Mentions: Award winners will receive an Award Certificate and have their winning artwork accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website.
Top 100 Finalists will have their entry accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website and will also be featured in the 2008 ARC Salon™ Catalog.

For more details on how to enter you can download entry forms in either PDF or Microsoft Word format.

Entry Deadline: September 6, 2008

To see the winners from the 2007 ARC Salon™ have a look at the announcement of the winners.

Inquiries may be addressed to Katie O'Hagan at arcprograms@artrenewal.org

Part-Time Classes at New School for Classical Realism


Announcing Part-Time classes at ARC Approved Atelier: The New School of Classical Realism
Director, ARC Living Artist™: Dana Levin

Visit www.danalevin.com for details.

Application Deadline for Fall 2008 Full-Time Classes is June 27th.



posted at Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Juliette Aristedes and Patricia Watwood at John Pence Gallery


ARC Masters Juliette Aristedes and Patricia Watwood along with Sarah Lamb, Kate Lehman, and Dorothy Morgan are featured in a group show at John Pence Gallery:

'Five Women'
Reception for the Artists
Thurday, April 10th- 6-8pm

Showdates: April 10 - May 10, 2008

Johne Pence Gallery
750 Post Street
San Francisco, CA
415-441-1138




The Artist
by Juliette Aristedes
48 x 36 inches
Oil on Linen, 2007

posted at Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Dana Levin is now an ARC Living Artist™


Dana Levin, Director of the ARC Approved Atelier: The New School of Classical Realism, has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™

Visit the Dana Levin Gallery


Hydrangea and Winterberries
by Dana Levin
Oil on Canvas

posted at Friday, May 02, 2008

2008 Angel Art School Annual Exhibition


Lynne Barton And Michael John Angel
Cordially invite you to
The 2008 Annual Exhibition
Of the Angel Academy of Art

Opening
Thursday, May 22, 2008
18.00 to 21.00

Exhibition continues
Friday, May 23red & Saturday May 24th
10.00 to 18.00

Via San Niccolo 88/r
Florence, Italy
Tel. 055 246 6737


The Artist's Model
by Michael John Angel
Oil on Canvas, 2007

posted at Monday, April 28, 2008

ARC International 2008 Salon™ Competition

Call for Entries
The Art Renewal Center's
International 2008 ARC Salon™

Win International Recognition Overnight
Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors.

More than $44,000 in Awards
Compete and Win in 5 Categories
Award Winners and Finalists will be featured on the
Art Renewal Center website
and in our full color catalogue.

Awards

Best in Show: $10,000 cash award plus gallery space in the Museum section of the ARC’s website. Gallery space will include the artist’s biographical information accompanied by 1 to 5 web pages of the artist’s finest works. The winner will also gain automatic acceptance as an ARC Approved Artist with exemption from the application process and $150 application fee..

The William Bouguereau Award - Emotion, Theme, and the Figure: $3,000

5 First Place Awards: $2,500 awarded in each category
5 Second Place Awards: $1,000 awarded in each category
5 Third Place Awards: $500 awarded in each category

Chairman's Choice Award: 2 Awarded at $500 each

ARC Staff Award: 4 Awarded at $100 each

People's Choice Award: $100 cash award. Winner will be selected by the public from the top 100 finalists through an online voting system at www.artrenewal.org.

Minimum of $10,000 in Purchase Awards
Works do not have to be for sale to be eligible for the competition. Purchase awards will be chosen from the finalists by our four judges and awarded at the sole discretion of the ARC's Chairman, Fred Ross.

30 Honorable Mentions: Award winners will receive an Award Certificate and have their winning artwork accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website.
Top 100 Finalists will have their entry accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website and will also be featured in the 2008 ARC Salon™ Catalog.

For more details on how to enter you can download entry forms in either PDF or Microsoft Word format.

Entry Deadline: September 6, 2008

To see the winners from the 2007 ARC Salon™ have a look at the announcement of the winners.

Inquiries may be addressed to Katie O'Hagan at arcprograms@artrenewal.org

posted at Friday, April 25, 2008

What would happen to literature if storytelling were to be banned?

Well, that's what happened to fine art, in the last century, when story telling for all intents and purposes was banned.

Read ARC Chairman's keynote Address at
the Oil Painter's of America Conference.

posted at Monday, April 07, 2008

Only 4 Weeks Left for Preorder Discounts for the 2007 ARC Salon Catalogs


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 the 19th Century Paris Salon, drew so many exquisite entries this year that at first, each of four world class art experts chose a completely separate piece for best in show. It was impossible to narrow the finalists down to 100, as intended, and so the number of finalists was raised to 150 this year rather then fail to recognize these works of unquestionable quality.
All 150 finalists are represented in this year's exquisite exhibition book.
PREORDER A 2007 International ARC Salon Catalogue NOW

2007 ARC Salon Catalog

posted at Monday, April 07, 2008

Daniel Graves and the Florence Academy of Art receive Excellence in Art Education Award 2008



Daniel Graves and the Florence Academy of Art, an ARC Approvedâ„¢ Atelier, has received the Excellence in Art Education Award 2008 from the Portrait Society of America.
The Excellence in Art Education award will be presented on the occasion of the 10th annivesary celebration of the Portrait Society of America's annual national artists' conference, being held April 10-13, 2008 at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel, Philadelphia, PA.

The award will be given during the gala banquet and awards program on Saturday, April 12, 2008.

www.florenceacademyofart.com


posted at Monday, April 07, 2008

Thank you sounds so weak for this....

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 vision of the human being. You have begun an enormous and incalculable task which will redefine the late 19th century in art as much as Mendelssohn redefined the late Baroque by revealing Bach for us nearly 100 years after his death. Thank you sounds so weak for this....

Dr. Richard J. Scruggs
Assistant Professor of Music

posted at Friday, April 04, 2008

Dare I dream to have you here in São Paulo one day, speaking to our universities...

Dear Mr. Ross,

My husband hasn't start complaining yet... But if he does, you will be guilty as charged! For since I discovered your wesite, less than a week ago, I've been spending hours and hours visiting your online museum and reading your articles. Lunch and dinner are late, I let him alone in the living room
watching TV and I go to bed long after him.

I can't even begin to describe the sense of relief and joy to see that I'm not alone in this world! Am I the only one, I used to think, who doesn't enjoy "modern art"? Is anything wrong with me for not wanting to go to a much "acclaimed" Picasso exhibition here in São Paulo, Brazil, where thousands os students were taken to?

I have a B.A. in Language and Literature (Brazilian and Portuguese) and work as a translator. I'm an art lover (not a collector or anything, I don't have the money for that, but simply someone who loves art), I've always enjoyed the arts of the 19th Century, but was amazed to find out, thanks to you, that this century was even better than I ever thought, in terms of art. I thought of doing a post-graduate course in Art History, but decided that the money would be better spent in visits to the most famous museums in the world...

Without exaggeration, I thank God for letting me live (I'm 42) to discover, thanks to you, magnificent works of art like those of Bouguereau.
I've already chosen six of his paintings to decorate my bedroom and I'll buy the prints as soon as I can.

Dare I dream to have you here in São Paulo one day, speaking to our
universities, our media, bringing a 19th century collection to delight thousands, millions of beauty- hungry, silent, anonymous eyes and souls like mine?


Just the other day, when a Picasso painting was stolen from a museum in São Paulo, and found some days later for the relief and joy of so many who cried over the loss of such "masterpiece", I said to my brother: "I hope I live long enough to see the fraud of modern art be exposed." You've made me believe that this is not only possible, but is already happening.

Best regards,
Susana L. Alexandria

posted at Friday, April 04, 2008

Thank you for all the information that ARC provides...

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 checking the site. From just an advertisement on the Return to Florence documentary, it led me to seek out the school. And now I will be attending a summer class there now which I am very excited about. It's difficult when High school teachers as well as some college professors do not know where to direct you, or what books and schools to tell you about. Art renewal gives a broad scope and a smaller one for anybody who seeks it, and for that I am very appreciative.

posted at Friday, April 04, 2008

2007 ARC Salon Winner Donates Winnings to ARC


Letitia Lowe, winner of one of two Chairman’s Choice Awards for her still life "The Pram" in the 2007 ARC Salon, has chosen to donate her winnings back to ARC saying, "I am deeply grateful for the support of ARC and, in particular, for that of the chairman, in honoring my work with this special award."
You can view more of Tish’s work at http://www.tishlowe.com/
.

The Pram
by Tish Lowe

posted at Wednesday, April 02, 2008

6 Bouguereas at Sotheby's Auction April 18, 2008



Another Major Sotheby’s auction is coming up April 18th, 2008. Bouguereau is increasingly the star of every important 19th century European painting auction in New York.
This past October the six Bouguereaus set new records yielding roughly 35% of the $26,000,000 taken in at that auction which included 235 lots. In the current sale there are yet another 6 Bouguereau’s as well as a major Gerome masterpiece and important works by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Vibert, L’hermitte, Torriglia, Gilbert, Horace Vernet, Rudolph Ernst, Eugene Von Blaas, and several of Bouguereau’s students among 296 total lots.

Browse Catalog

To view these works, please visit: http://sothebys.com/

posted at Monday, March 31, 2008

ARC Masterâ„¢ Paul McCormack
5 Day Watercolor Workshop


ARC Master, Paul McCormack will be teaching a 5 Day Watercolor Workshop at ARC Appovedâ„¢ Atelier,LAAFA-the Los Angelos Academy of Figurative Art in Van Nuys, California.
5 Days: Thur-Mon, April 17-21, 2008
10am - 5pm


"Take this opportunity to learn from nationally recognized portrait artist, Paul W. McCormack. Students will be working from a live model as Paul demonstrates all the techniques and principles needed to execute a watercolor portrait with a luminous glow. With demonstrations and lectures given each day students are taken through a step-by-step procedure…watch, listen, learn, and then apply. Combined with individual attention, critiques and hands on instruction (with permission of the student), students will have the opportunity to create a finished portrait under Paul’s guidance.

By Instructor: Paul McCormack

For the exacting realism found in Paul’s work, most of day one will focus primarily on the drawing aspect of the portrait. With instruction on the proper use of angles, plumb lines and relative measurement, students will learn how to acquire correct proportions in order to achieve a likeness of the model. As the course continues, this intensive 5-day workshop will then focus on painting. Lectures will include basic color theory, how to see and execute correct value relations, proper treatment of edges, and so much more. Demonstrations in watercolor techniques will include wet into wet, glazing, and Paul’s signature dry brush technique. Beginners and advanced students alike will certainly benefit from the experience."

posted at Friday, March 28, 2008

ARC Recognized Again by
The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund

ARC has received a $15,000 grant from the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund for our ARC Scholarship Program 2008. ARC will match this generous grant, making $30,000 available for scholarships in 2008.

We send our thanks to the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund.


About the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund

posted at Tuesday, March 25, 2008

2008 ARC Scholarship Competition with $30,000 in Grants

The prospectus for the 2008 ARC Scholarship Competition is now available.
Deadline is June 18, 2008
$30,000 in grants are available this year.


Students of painting and sculpture will submit examples of paintings and sculpture rendered from life and representative of nature as reflected in figurative studies and compositions, landscapes, still lives, and portraits -- work that that seeks to capture a fully recognizable likeness of the model.
Scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of merit. There is no application fee.

Click here for more information and the
2008 ARC Scholarship Prospectus

posted at Wednesday, March 19, 2008

MARCH 17 2008-4th ARC Living Master at Sotheby's NY-Han Wu Shen

Girl With a Lantern
by Han Wu Shen
March 17, 2008
Sotheby's New York, Lot 236


Girl with a Lantern, by Han Wu Shen, the Great Contemporary Realist and ARC Master , will be offered at the Contemporary Arts of Asia Auction at
Sotheby's New York this month.

Having sold at the Hong Kong Auctions in 2005, 2006 and 2007 at ever increasing prices, this is the first American auction for Mr. Shen.

Shen's work has been compared to the great Chinese Realist, Wang Yidong, who now sells for as high as $1,000,000 per canvas.

Han Wu Shen's work is seen as an incredible opportunity, as the value of his paintings has an unlimited potential right now.

This is the second Sotheby's Auction offering works by ARC Living Mastersâ„¢ :

Read about the Groundbreaking Auction at Sotheby's NY on October 10, 2007 offering the works of 3 ARC Living Mastersâ„¢

posted at Friday, March 14, 2008

Ted Seth Jacobs Three Month Workshop at BACAA


ARC Master, Ted Seth Jacobs is leading a
Three Month Intensive Portrait Program at the
Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier in Belmont California
November 10, 2008-February 14, 2009
Learn More and Register

by Ted Seth Jacobs

posted at Tuesday, March 04, 2008

New ARC Masterâ„¢ Joel Carson Jones


Artist Joel Carson Jones has been approved as an ARC Living Masterâ„¢
Visit the Joel Carson Jones Gallery

posted at Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Florence Academy of Art Summer Session

ARC Approvedâ„¢ Florence Academy of Art wishes to announce:



The Florence Academy of Art
Summer Session 2008
June 30 - July 25

Figure Drawing & Painting - Portraiture - Still Life - Landscape

Click here for more info

Connection
by Jura Bedic, figure painting and portraiture instructor

posted at Monday, March 03, 2008






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