For your information, Sarah Katie Li, winner of a Certificate of Merit in the 2011 Portrait of Canada Competition is a third year student at the Angel Academy of Art. She is 17 years old and finishing her high school education while going to Angel full time. We are very grateful to ARC for providing information on traditional art ateliers teaching classical art techniques which lead us to Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.

Sincerely

Proud Parent

To learn more about ARC Approved™ Ateliers, please click here.

To read more letters to ARC, please visit our ARChives.

You can download this issue at http://www.americanpaintingvideomagazine.com/.

Mario Robinson will also be having a show until February 15, 2012 at the Priniciple Gallery – 208 King Street – Alexandria, VA.

Visit our Events and Exhibitions for more information.

Click here to see Stuart Dunkel’s gallery.

There will be an opening reception tomorrow, January 26 from 6-9pm.

Joshua Liner Gallery – 548 West 28th Street 3rd Floor – New York, NY 10001 – P: (212) 244-7415

The Bohemiarte School has also launched a new website. Please click here for more information.

Exalting the human spirit through expressive faces and natural body movement has become the recognized trademark of Angela Mia De la Vega’s figurative bronze sculpture. Her work’s greatest inspiration is the ever-changing individuality of her children.


Click here to see Angela Mia De La Vega’s gallery.

Although there are a large variety of artists who show at this event, Don and Vala both maintain the highest standards in their work, as well as in their organization.

To view more on this and other events, please visit our Events and Exhibitions page.

“I have gravitated towards the natural, the heroic and most importantly, the human. As long as the subject matter of my compositions treats the ordinary human experience and their expressions with a sense of awe, I feel inspired. Realism gives me the foundation of comfort to explore the variety in human proportion, scale and balance.”

Click here to see James Van Fossan’s gallery.

“I feel excited, humbled and proud to be a part of ARC in this manner. I have only been painting for 6 years but I have poured my very heart, mind and soul into it …”

Click here to read James Van Fossan’s letter to ARC.

Some people feel that the nude form is something that should be hidden away both in art and the artist’s classroom and they frequently write to ARC expressing trepidation about the fact that we display nude drawings, paintings, and sculptures in the ARC Museum. Sometimes they even us to remove or hide away such works. This new article by Brian K. Yoder describes their complaints and attempts to respond to their concerns and makes a case for the value of nudes in art and the training of artists.

This exhibition of ARC Living Master™ Nelson Shanks work will include approximately 20 paintings and is the first solo exhibition of the artist's work to be held in New York in fifty years.

For more information, visit our Events and Exhibitions page or click here.

I am one of the recipients for this year’s ARC scholarship competition, and I just wanted to send my sincere gratitude for having chosen and supported my work. This scholarship will allow me to complete my fourth year at the Florence Academy of Art with financial security and more focus, without having to worry about raising money on the side. I know an email isn’t the strongest gesture of gratitude, but I would just like to say that I promise you these funds will be put to good use. I hope that my work in the months/years to come can be a form of thanks.

I greatly appreciate what you are doing with the ARC, and am honored that I am receiving support from such an organization. I wish for you continued success with the ARC, and I hope I have the chance to thank you in person some day.

Sincerely,

Richard Greathouse

This e-book is a short 37 step guide on how to create a wipeout underpainting as done by many of the old masters and includes many helpful photographs and good foundational information for this process. Bossik’s works have been exhibited in many locations including the Society of Illustrators, the Salamagundi Club, the Art Director’s Club of New York, to name a few, and his Historical Military Paintings have been featured on the covers of The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography and From Sea to Shining Sea.

Ladies and gentleman, artists and art lovers, CSOPA is honored to host an historic weekend with American icon and A.R.C. Living Master™, Daniel Greene. The symposium taking place from Feb 3-5 is expected to sell out soon. Dan Greene devotees, aspiring portraitists, friends and colleagues should sign up soon.

For more information, click here.

The Contemporary Realist Movement

Peace March by Max Ginsburg

Max Ginsburg is a New York artist whose paintings are extremely realistic in form and content. His paintings explore the range of daily human life, concerned as much with life’s ironies and social injustices, as with its many joys. Issues of war and peace, racism and the inhumanity of man have been a major focus in his art.

To view Max Ginsburg’s workshops, click here.

The Charles Bargue Drawing course was developed and widely applied in the mid 19th century as a foundation exercise for fine art training. Throughout the years it has been used by many great masters as an essential process in understanding the principles of shape, proportion, value and form.

To view the winners of the 2011 ARC Scholarship Competition, please click here.

Despite his relative anonymity within a historical period still being rediscovered, Blair Leighton’s compelling images have worked their way into the living day psyche, impacting our perceptions and understandings of romance, chivalry, and the medieval era.

To read the article click here.