Posts for January, 2025

Congratulations to Roberto Gammone for winning the People’s Choice Award!

“Baroque Recycling is a painting focused on the theme of creative recycling.

It combines two different aesthetic concepts together, creating a short circuit between packaging papers destined for destruction and the baroque aesthetic virtuosity underlined by the swirling movement of the drapes. The intent of the work, a thermometer of the era of climate change in which we live, is to make creative recycling aesthetically appreciable, until reaching the claim of comparison with baroque aesthetics.”

Women Painting Women is a landmark group exhibition that showcases the exceptional talent of women realist portrait artists. The fourth instalment of this celebrated series brings together award-winning painters from across Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Among the exhibiting artists are ARC Living Master Vicki Sullivan and ARC Living Master Jac Grantford.

Immerse yourself in the skill, depth, and beauty of art by women, where each piece tells a compelling story through the timeless medium of realist painting.

In conjunction with this inspiring exhibition, Burrinja is thrilled to host a variety of special events celebrating the Women Painting Women showcase. A live portrait demo with Vicki Sullivan & Liz Gridley takes place on Sunday, February 16th from 10:30am to 4pm.

The exhibition runs from February 1, 2025 to March 9, 2025 at the Burrinja Cultural Centre, 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey, VIC, 3158, Australia.

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Sorolla and the Sea features approximately 40 works, on loan from The Hispanic Society Museum & Library for the first time in over 100 years.

This exhibition explores Sorolla’s lifelong connection to the sea and is organized into five sections that each examine a different aspect of this subject matter, from the artist’s life and work to his plein-air paintings and beach scenes, as well as the people of Spain from the fishermen to the regional traditions captured in the artist’s well-known series, Visions of Spain. 

The exhibition runs until April 13, 2025 at the Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.

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This thought-provoking exhibition presents on the art and legacy of French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). It examines the wider impact of the Orientalist art movement through photography and in conversation with modern and contemporary artworks from West Asia, North Africa and Central Asia.

The first gallery begins in the 19th century, with an examination of Gérôme’s biography, including his influences and historical context. Visitors to the second gallery get to see the mechanics of his style - and its surprising creativity - and understand how it influenced his audience’s perceptions of his works as “real.” Then, in the third gallery, discover why Gérôme’s style was politicized in the 20th century, and how a new definition and discourse of Orientalism has complicated an appreciation of his art.

The exhibition runs from November 3, 2024 – February 22, 2025 at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Education City, Doha, Qatar.

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Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) painted magnificent, deceptively realistic floral still lifes with plants and fruits, butterflies and insects from the most diverse regions of the world. Her work became sought-after and expensive collector's items during her lifetime. Demand was so great that the Amsterdam painter could afford to produce merely a few works a year. As the daughter of the renowned professor of anatomy and botany, Frederik Ruysch, the first female member of the Confrerie Pictura, court painter in Düsseldorf, lottery game winner and the mother of ten children, she was an exceptional figure in her time.

The exhibition runs until March 16, 2025 at the Alte Pinakothek, 27 Barer Str., Munich, Germany.

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Exploring the many ways that the French artist James Tissot represented modern women and envisioned their relationship to time during the last decades of the nineteenth century, this exhibition presents two of the AGO’s most beloved Tissot paintings alongside a selection of more than 40 works on paper donated by Allan and Sondra Gotlieb. The contradiction of the period comes alive in these works as the quickness of modernity, exemplified by the newfound speed of travel, fashion and commodity culture, is juxtaposed against the constrained pace of women’s everyday lives, characterized by caregiving, tending to customers or recovering from illness.

The exhibition runs Dec. 21, 20204- February 15, 2025 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W, Toronto, ON Canada.

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Visitors to the ARC website can vote for up to 10 of their favorite finalists or winning works. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and a full page in the 17th/18th ARC Salon publication, International Realism, to be published by ACC Art Books, a division of a global publisher. Visit the People's Choice Award section on the ARC Salon results pages and click on the vote button below the works of your choice to cast your votes. Visitors will be prompted to login or create a free account so that we can track votes and prevent users from voting more than once. The winner will be revealed for this final award on January 28, 2025.

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Epoch Times recently published an article about Pavel Sokov’s “Watching the Dance”, which won Best in Show in the 17th International ARC Salon Competition.

“Watching the Dance” is part of Sokov’s “Stories of the Tribes of Ethiopia” series, which he painted in 2022 after spending two months living among eight different tribes in the Omo Valley. According to his artist’s statement, the series is part of Sokov’s ongoing mission “to discover, understand and share the stories of traditional cultures around the world.”

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The Art Renewal Center® is pleased to present the winners of the 17th International ARC Salon Competition, the largest competition in the world for representational art. The ARC received over 5,000 entries from 87 countries. 1,970 new works from around the world are now available to view on the ARC website. With the help of over 50 jurors, 213 awards and honorable mentions have been given out, including over $130,000 in cash awards. Entries for the 18th ARC Salon will be accepted starting March 1, 2025.

To view the 17th ARC Salon Results, click here.