ARC Chairman Fred Ross 2015 TRAC Keynote Speech
The Keynote Address from the 2015 TRAC conference by ARC Chairman Fred Ross has just been posted to the site!

The speech, entitled “What is Fine Art and Why Realism?”, provides a clear and rational definition of the nature of fine art and why only Realism is able to meet the highest and most advanced goals to which fine art aspires.

Click here to read the speech or watch the speech on YouTube!

Posted March 4th, 2016

New ARC Associate Living Master™
ARC is pleased to welcome Edward Little as our newest Associate Living Master™!

Edward Little is a professional artist and designer with over thirty five years’ experience. Focusing on the dramatic effects of natural and artificial light and the resultant shadow contrasts Edward seeks to create paintings that have mood as well as a sense of time and place.

To view his gallery on ARC, please click here.

Posted March 4th, 2016

We are now accepting entries to the 12th International ARC Salon Competition!
The most prestigious realist art competition in the Americas and perhaps the world, the International ARC Salon offers over $100,000 in cash awards and International recognition through partnerships with prestigious magazines, galleries, museum exhibitions, and a strong online presence. Artists are welcome to enter works and can win the top awards whether or not their works are available for in-person viewing or for the live exhibition.

We are currently remodeling the entire ARC Website from the ground up to bring an easier navigation and superior user experience to our ARC visitors. The full website will be available this summer, but we are launching our new Salon entry pages and system now.

Please CLICK HERE to view the new prospectus and to enter the 12th International ARC Salon.

Any problems please write our ARC Webmaster, Iian Neill, at webmaster@artrenewal.org.

Posted March 2nd, 2016

ARCLM™ Marci Oleszkiewicz Show
ARC Living Master™ Marci Oleszkiewicz is holding her annual solo show titled “Kind Regards” which runs from March 10 – March 24, 2016. Over 15 new works capture the wonder of childhood and the beauty of life.

The show opens March 10th from 7-9pm at Gallery Russia in 7103 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251.

To find out more about this and other events, please click here.

Posted March 1st, 2016

Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion
This major exhibition of more than 120 paintings by masters including Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, and Millais will highlight Liverpool’s significant role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, reinforcing the city’s position as the Victorian art capital of the north.
The show runs from February 12 – June 15, 2016 at the Walker Art Gallery – William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EL, England.

To learn more about this and other events, please click here.

Posted February 25th, 2016

ARCALM™ Richard T Scott Exhibition
ARC Associate Living Master™ Richard T Scott will be holding a solo show of his work entitled “Americana”.

His work drifts between history and the present, reality and the supernatural, like a semi-lucid dream.

The exhibition runs from March 10 – 27, 2016 at the Galerie – L’Oeil du Prince &45; 7 rue de l’Odéon, 75006 in Paris, France.

For more information about this and other events, please click here.

Posted February 24th, 2016

New ARC Associate Living Master™
ARC is pleased to welcome Tina Garrett as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!

In the few short years since Tina’s introduction to oil she has studied intently the Selective Start Method described in Alla Prima. Tina continues to learn and try to push her work to the next level. In the course of her serious pursuit of fine art mastery, the love Tina pours into each work pervades her imagery, helping Tina create a growing family of private collectors and commissioned clients throughout the U.S. and in the U.K.

To view her new gallery on ARC, please click here.

Posted February 23rd, 2016

Juliette Aristides at the Search for Meaning Book Festival
ARC Living Master™ Juliette Aristides will be speaking at the Seattle University Search for Meaning Book Festival.

Her lecture, titled, “On Seeing: Art as a Portal to Living More Fully”, will take place on Saturday, February 27, 2016, from 1:00pm-2:00pm at the Vachon Gallery – Fine Arts Building, Seattle University, 901 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122.

For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.seattleu.edu/searchformeaning/

Posted February 22nd, 2016

New ARC Living Master™
ARC is pleased to welcome Jeff Hein as our newest Living Master™!

Jeff Hein is an American artist born 1974. He works in a variety of mediums but is best known for his figurative oil paintings. In 2007 Hein founded the Hein Academy of Art, which is also an ARC Approved Atelier™ and in 2014 he won second place in the Figurative Category in the International ARC Salon.

To view his new gallery on ARC, please click here.

Posted February 19th, 2016

New ARC Living Artist™
ARC is pleased to welcome Laurie Anspach as an ARC Living Artist™.

Laurie’s career began by earning a BA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She created designs for leading fashion industry studios in New York and later for the top European market.
In a project close to her heart, she is working with HeartsApart.org and the Heart Galleries, two national nonprofit organizations, to paint portraits of military families for dedicated service men and women who are being deployed oversees and to paint foster children in need of permanent homes.

To view her gallery on ARC, click here.

Posted February 18th, 2016

SAA Organizes Workshop
The Society of Animal Artists (SAA) has joined in a coordinated effort with the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation (SKB) to create the single most comprehensive artist training workshop in the history of the SAA. This event, which consists of instruction from a series of top award winning SAA members will take place from May 22 – 27, 2016 in Kerrville, TX.

To learn more and to register, click here.

Posted February 17th, 2016

Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi Solo Show
ARC Living Artist™ Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi is an accomplished artist who has exhibited in national and international juried competitions. This exhibition will showcase his portraits, still lives and landscapes.

The show will be held at The Ventulett Gallery – 805 Mount Vernon Hwy NW, Atlanta, GA 30327 from March 3 – 24, 2016.

For more information, please click here.

Posted February 16th, 2016

New ARC Associate Living Master™
ARC is pleased to welcome Richard T Scott as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!
Working between New York and Paris, Richard is a painter, writer, and designs coins for the United States Mint. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York Academy of Art.

His work is held in private and public collections, and his paintings have been exhibited across Europe and North America. In addition to having given lectures and workshops at The Representational Art Conference, Laguna College of Art and Design, and the Lyme Academy, Richard is the founder of the Berkshire Painting Residency.

To view Richard's gallery on ARC, please click here.
The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Richard T Scott

Posted February 12th, 2016

Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of genius
Hieronymus Bosch is viewed worldwide as the most intriguing and exciting Netherlandish artist of the late Middle Ages. The exhibition includes the lion’s share of his surviving paintings and drawings, and is based on the most comprehensive research ever performed into the artist’s oeuvre: the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP). Never before have so many of Bosch’s works returned to his home town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, where he created them over 500 years ago. The exceptionally large number of works loaned to the exhibition will offer visitors a unique opportunity to study close up the revolutionary and highly imaginative visual language of Hieronymus Bosch.
The exhibition runs from February 13 – May 8, 2016 at the Het Noordbrabants Museum – Verwersstraat 41, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

For more information, please visit our exhibitions page.

Posted February 11th, 2016

Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale
Three ARC Living Masters, John Buxton, Jeremy Lipking, and Morgan Weistling, are participating in one of the country’s premier Western art shows. Each year, 75 nationally recognized, contemporary Western artists challenge themselves to create and exhibit their very best work. Stylistically and thematically diverse, their works represent the extraordinary range of subject matter that contemporary, historic, and mythic Western experiences inspire.
The exhibition runs from February 6 – March 20, 2016 at the Autry Museum of the American West – 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027.

For more information, please click here.

Posted February 10th, 2016

Vigée Le Brun – Woman Artist in Revolutionary France
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was one of the finest eighteenth-century French painters and among the most important of all women artists. She achieved success in France and Europe during one of the most eventful, turbulent periods in European history. The Metropolitan Museum of Art – 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) New York, NY will be holding the first retrospective devoted to Vigée Le Brun in modern times. The eighty works on view will be paintings and a few pastels from European and American public and private collections.
The exhibition runs from February 15 – May 15, 2016.

To view more on this and other events, please click here.

Posted February 9th, 2016

ARC Salon Exhibition
The ARC Salon exhibition has ended, but we will be accepting entries to the 12th annual ARC Salon Competition starting March 1, 2016. We will be posting the prospectus sometime this month.

Please continue to visit the ARC website for additional announcements regarding the upcoming competition.

Posted February 5th, 2016

New ARC Associate Living Master™
ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Cameron as our newest Associate Living Master™!
“Svetlana Cameron (b. 1978) is a Russian-born British portrait artist dedicated to the revival of traditional fine art. Trained in the methods of Old Masters in the private atelier system, she specializes in portraiture in the style of classical realism. Svetlana is based in the Isle of Man (British Isles) where she works from her studio in Braddan. A sought-after portrait painter, she travels internationally to exhibit and meet her sitters.”

To view her gallery on ARC, please click here.

Posted February 4th, 2016

Carlo Russo Painting Sold
Carlo Russo’s painting, Mortars, which won an honorable mention in the Still life Category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition, has now sold. The painting is a part of the first live exhibition of the ARC Salon which traveled from the MEAM Museum in Barcelona and is now on display at the Salmagundi Club, New York City, until February 4th.

To view a list of the other works available for sale, please click here.

Posted February 3rd, 2016

Hsin-Yao Tseng Work Sold
Listen to Myself, by Hsin-Yao Tseng, which was a finalist in the Figurative Category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition has sold. The painting, part of the first Live ARC Salon, is currently on display at the Salmagundi Club, New York City, until February 4th.

To view a list of the other works available for sale, please click here.

Posted February 1st, 2016

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