16 February, 2017
Bella by Carla D'aguannoCarla D'aguanno began her career as a movie poster artist and then as an illustrator of young adult and romance covers for several New York publishing companies. After she marr ...
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18 May, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Barden as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Elizabeth Barden is a fine artist with an established studio practice. Her work is in several collections includin ...
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17 July, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Leszek Piotrowski (Lesstro) as an ARC Associate Living Master™. Spices of Arabia by Leszek PiotrowskiThe technique and subjects of Lesstro's paintings and drawings are ...
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12 November, 2013
Pears in Plasticby Dario CampanileBorn April 21, 1948 in Rome, Italy. Dario started painting in oil at age 14. He spent time concentrating on painting in classical style influenced by Caravaraggio a ...
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5 April, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome ARC Associate Living Master™ Donald Clapper! Clapper's work has received national as well as international recognition and has been featured in many museums and p ...
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20 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome James Van Fossan as an ARC Associate Living Master™!
"I have gravitated towards the natural, the heroic and most importantly, the human. As long as the subject mat ...
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16 September, 2011
We would like to officially welcome Mikel Olazabal as an ARC Associate Living Master™.
His art covers a wide variety of themes, having the description of the figures and the narration of t ...
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29 August, 2011
ARC is proud to announce the arrival of the newest addition to the website, the ARC Exhibition Page.
Click to see the Exhibition Page
In an attempt to better assist in art education, we though ...
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29 November, 2012
Just wanted to thank you all again for the wonderful work you do and the incredible display of work your site contains. Every visit to your site is a little present I can give myself.Best wishes,Thom ...
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10 April, 2013
Le Gouter
by William BouguereauI just read your article on William Bouguereau - written many years ago, but perfectly relevant today. It affected me enough to write this email. WB played a major r ...
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17 October, 2013
My name is Abigail Camden and I am a senior in high school with a passion for fine art. I am currently on a search for schools to attend next year and I’m feeling a bit discouraged. Coming across ...
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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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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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30 November, 2015
"Mr. Fred Ross,
I just came across your website a few days ago and it is amazing!!! I also just read your piece Why Realism? and it speaks volumes. As an artist for over 30 years, I just could not un ...
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5 June, 2014
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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31 July, 2013
Le Ravissement de Psycheby William BouguereauWe have recently added a letter by Eric Alexander Santoli, who has written in on what it is like to be a young artist today who looks towards the pas ...
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26 October, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome George Angelini as our newest ARC Living Artist™. George Angelini's current work has brought him full circle to why he loved art in the first place, by evoking a mood ...
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4 August, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Alain Amar as our newest ARC Living Artist™."A dreamlike and spiritual artist, he has a sincere and idealistic desire to offer through his artworks: peace, serenity, jo ...
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28 December, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Gulay Berryman as our newest ARC Living Artist.
"Art has been my way of acknowledging the world around me. I have always been a very visual person from a young ...
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12 March, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Robbie Fitzpatrick as our newest ARC Living Artist!
"It has been a road of many curves and corners that has led me to watercolor. Along those bends, I kept turning ...
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15 November, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Zu Sheng Yu as an ARC Living Artist™!
Zu Sheng Yu constantly challenges himself in an artistic sense. His versatility and creative passion lead him through life to create ...
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28 January, 2019
ARC is proud to welcome Sandy Sherman as our newest ARC Living Artist™!
Sandy Sherman, a native of New Hampshire, has been painting in a realistic manner since 1980. Her forte is still life paintin ...
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24 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Robert Dale Williams as a new ARC Living Artist™!
Robert Dale Williams studied classical drawing and painting techniques at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School ...
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13 August, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Carlos Bruscianelli Torrealba as an ARC Living Artist!
Carlos Bruscianelli is a Realist painter born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1980. In 2000, he began to study Civil Engin ...
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27 September, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Tatiana McWethy as an ARC Living Artist™!
Tatiana McWethy was born in the Ukraine in the town of Berditchev in 1967. At an early age she won prizes for her art in Hungary, ...
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27 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Edi Matsumoto as an ARC Living ArtistTM!
Edi Matsumoto was born and raised in Japan. Her maternal great-grandfather was a traditional Japanese artist who painted birds, ...
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29 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Nathan Bertling as an ARC Living Artist!
Nathan Bertling studied under American master Benjamin F. Long, IV at The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas in Asheville, NC. Lear ...
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29 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Anil Surendran as an ARC Living Artist!
"The thought process prior to sculpting a portrait or figure I find the most creative aspect. How does the person see himself ...
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15 September, 2021
ARC is pleased to welcome Dan Simoneau as a new ARC Living Artist.
"Dan Simoneau was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine, where he began formal art classes at 11 and, at 13, joined the Androsco ...
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25 October, 2021
ARC is pleased to welcome Rosemarie Armstrong as an ARC Living Artist.
"Rosemarie is a painter of landscapes and seascapes; her paintings convey the constant transformation of the natural worl ...
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22 March, 2022
ARC is pleased to welcome Zhi Li as an ARC Living Artist!
Becoming a professional artist has been Zhi Li’s dream since childhood. She was fortunate to have grown up in an artistic environment wh ...
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21 March, 2025
ARC is pleased to welcome Jim van Geet as an ARC Living Artist!
Jim van Geet was born in Amsterdam, Holland and came to Australia at a young age.
Although he had a natural ability and desire for paint ...
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25 March, 2025
ARC is pleased to welcome Sandra MacGillivray as an ARC Living Artist!
Painting in a realistic style, Sandra captures the emotion and mood of her subjects. Through color, texture, and detail, her work ...
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16 May, 2024
ARC is pleased to welcome Pippa Chapman as an ARC Living Artist!
Pippa Chapman was born and raised in Australia and has lived overseas in the UK, France and Oman for many years. She has always b ...
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4 December, 2012
We would like to introduce our first painter of miniatures, Debra Keirce, to the ARC Museum. Her works are usually 4 x 6 inches or smaller. For their size, they are painted with tremendous detail as m ...
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9 March, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Anand PKC as an ARC Living Artist™!Anand PKC is fully dedicated to realism and wishes to paint his subjects as true to reality as possible."Creating virtual reali ...
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23 May, 2012
We would like to welcome Carrie Pearce as an ARC Living Artist™.Pearce's paintings can be described as expressive realism with surrealist imagery. She combines nature and and human form to c ...
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24 February, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Marilyn Ines Rodriguez as an ARC Living Artist™! Marilyn Ines Rodriguez is a professionally trained classical sculptor whose main focus is the traditional representation of ...
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27 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Stuart Dunkel as an ARC Living Artist™! "... nothing exists until light is draped over it. From the nothingness of black we build up to the perceived objects. As in love, ...
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21 November, 2023
ARC is pleased to welcome Joseph Bellofatto as a new ARC Living Artist℠!
Joseph Bellofatto is a fine artist who works primarily in oils and graphite and currently resides in the Raleigh, North Carolin ...
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9 May, 2013
We would like to welcome Anara Abzhanova as an ARC Living Artist™ . Abzhanova was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. From her early years she knew she wanted to be an artist. Anara has been deaf from child ...
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7 October, 2014
Charlene Helfend Lane's first heroes were the traditional artists she saw in books and museums. Winning an art award at the age of nine confirmed her desire to be an artist. However, life brought h ...
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9 December, 2014
The Bow by Ekaterina Vassilenko SearcyARC is pleased to welcome Ekaterina Vassilenko Searcy as our newest ARC Living Artist™.The emotional thrust of her drawings and oil paintings respect the style ...
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25 February, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome John Joseph Hunn as an ARC Living Artist™.John Joseph Hunn is a Midwest artist predominately working with the human figure. Graduate of Fontbonne University in 2000, he ...
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3 March, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Jennie Smallenbroek as an ARC Living Artist™.Jennie Smallenbroek is a fulltime professional artist residing in her native country, the Netherlands, but travels extensively to ...
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31 March, 2015
We are pleased to welcome Albert Yi-Fu Chen as an ARC Living Artist™. Albert's art is centered on the human figure and human conditions, pursuing the notion of the existence of the figure that reflec ...
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1 May, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Elaine Hahn as an ARC Living Artist™!
Cinque Terra by Elaine HahnElaine Hahn is a Signature member of the American Women Artists, the American Society of Marine Artists, t ...
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18 February, 2016
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 ...
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28 April, 2016
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Daniel Martin Stephanian as our newest ARC Living Artist™."By backing away from the art for a couple of years, that allowed me to miss parts of the task. ...
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6 December, 2016
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Alan Merris Bell as our newest ARC Living Artist™.Alan Merris Bell is a fine artist from Portland, Oregon. He attended the San Francisco Academy of Art and ...
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6 March, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Kanyo as our newest ARC Living Artist™.Lemons by Svetlana KanyoSvetlana believes that human experience and emotions are most naturally and profoundly expressed throu ...
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11 May, 2017
Clos Vougeut by Gayle
MadeiraARC is pleased to welcome Gayle Madeira as an ARC Living Artist™.Gayle Madeira is an award-winning artist, dancer and choreographer based in New York City. She receive ...
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2 June, 2017
All in a Day's Work by Sammy Watson The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Sammy Watson as an ARC Living Artist™.Sammy Watson has been inspired through the years by artists such as Norman Rock ...
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30 January, 2014
Carol Lee Thompson is a classical realist trained in the methods of the Old Masters. She is a full-time professional artist residing in her native Maryland but travels extensively to paint and furth ...
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10 April, 2014
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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16 May, 2014
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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13 March, 2014
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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12 July, 2011
Sing Over Me
by Mary Jane Q Cross
We would like to officially welcome Mary Jane Q Cross as an ARC Living Artist™.
Q Cross's work embraces beauty personified in primarily womanly su ...
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20 September, 2011
We would like to officially welcome Sivananda Nyayapathi as an ARC Living Artist™.
Siva is a juried member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta (PSA), a signature member of the Atlanta Fine ...
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18 November, 2013
Victoria Radionova's first and main teacher was her father, who was an architect-designer.From the cradle she was surrounded by reproductions of paintings by great masters from the past. A Little S ...
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28 March, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Kenneth Salaz our newest ARC Living Master!
"Ken Salaz was born in 1970 in southern California and spent his youth living in numerous locations with hi ...
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20 January, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Katsu Nakajima as a new ARC Living Master™!
"Around 2008, realizing that his mission in life was to become an artist, he started producing oil paintings while learnin ...
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14 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Ricardo Jose Mujica as an ARC Living Master™!
Born and raised in New York City, Ricardo Jose Mujica studied art at the High School of Art and Design under Max Ginsburg a ...
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29 August, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Ana Schmidt as a new ARC Living Master™!
Ana Schmidt is a figurative painter known for her realistic depictions of urban landscapes. In the artist´s paintings the presen ...
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6 September, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Juan Carlos Martinez as an ARC Living Master™.
Juan Carlos Martinez is an award-winning artist, an art educator, and a specialist in traditional portraiture and figurative ...
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21 November, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso as an ARC Living Master!
Gabriela Gonzalez is a narrative artist, using representational figurative subjects. She received her BFA from the Scho ...
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12 March, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Richard Hall as a Living Master!
"For 35 years, I enjoyed a successful career in fine art, exploring the opposing worlds of abstract art and traditional still life.
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15 October, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Luis Alvarez Roure as an ARC Living Master.
Mr. Roure is a figurative and still-life painter better known for his portraits of internationally known figures. In 2020, The ...
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18 February, 2021
We are pleased to welcome Chad Fisher as our newest ARC Living Master!
"I am inspired by nature to create a visual language to communicate with the world around me. My early interest in ...
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24 April, 2024
Congratulations to Nanci France-Vaz for becoming a new ARC Living Master!
Nanci France-Vaz is a modern renaissance artist that uses allegorical symbolism to create visual stories on canvas. Fran ...
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9 October, 2018
We are pleased to announce the addition of William Davis as an ARC Living Master™!
William Davis grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typica ...
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10 September, 2012
We are proud to welcome Thomas Reis to the Art Renewal Center's Artist and Living Master's Gallery™. Many of ARC's visitors are already be familiar with his work, since he won best in ...
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20 September, 2012
Erik Koeppel received his formal training from the Rhode Island School of Design followed by the New York Academy of Art, and an annual apprenticeship in Wiscasset, Maine with his professor and friend ...
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10 December, 2012
We would like to introduce our first Brazilian ARC Living Master, Gilberto Geraldo. Geraldo received the highest awards in the major and most prestigious Art Competitions of Brazil, being also invited ...
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17 July, 2013
Boris Vallejo attended the National School of Fine Arts in, Lima Peru before immigrating to the United States in 1964. He arrived in the US with a suitcase of clothes, some samples of his artwor ...
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24 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Angela Mia De La Vega as an ARC Living Master™!
Exalting the human spirit through expressive faces and natural body movement has become the recognized trademark of ...
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20 February, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome James Gurney as an ARC Living Master™!James Gurney is best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia. He specializes in painting realistic images of scenes that can ...
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14 May, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome ARC Living Master™ Joseph McGurl. Joseph McGurl has been referred to as one of the acknowledged leaders in the current American landscape school. This has been confir ...
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3 July, 2012
ARC is proud to welcome Julio Reyes as an ARC Living Master™. "Art has become a means for me to measure the value of my experiences; to seek patterns and hidden purposes, and to delight in th ...
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11 July, 2012
ARC is happy to welcome Marina Dieul as an ARC Living Master™.Marina Dieul was born in France. She showed great interest in painting and drawing from an early age, and her family encoura ...
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16 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Peter Fiore as an ARC Living Master™!
Fiore's compositional simplicity with the complexity of his lively brushwork makes him a standout. Employing a deceptively wi ...
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4 April, 2011
Richard MacDonald is now an ARC Living Master™Click here to see the Richard MacDonald Gallery Nureyev, Half Lifeby Richard MacDonald ...
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8 December, 2023
ARC is pleased to welcome Carmen Drake as an ARC Living Master℠!
Since childhood, Carmen Drake has had a passion for drawing and painting, winning numerous awards as a young artist. In 1984 she ...
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8 February, 2013
Arantzazu Martinez is an academic painter from Vitoria, Spain. She attended the Fine Arts University of the Basque Country and graduated in 2000. Unable to find any classical art training, she moved t ...
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16 May, 2013
He Lihuai was born in Chongqing, China in 1961. He worked as an art designer at Capital Museum from 1985 to 1996 after receiving Art of Bachelor degree in oil painting at Tianjin Academy of Fine Ar ...
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21 May, 2013
God's Gift
by John BuxtonWe would like to welcome John Buxton, a painter of American history and heritage as an ARC Living Master™. Because his paintings are extensively researched, they enjoy an ...
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18 June, 2013
We would like to welcome Robert Liberace as an ARC Living Master™. Liberace is known for his inspiring and information-packed teaching style. Through teaching classes and workshops in the U.S. and abr ...
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3 July, 2013
Dmitry Sevryukov is a modern realist artist. The breathtaking beauty of his works attracts many fans of realism.
From his childhood, he had a dream and did all he could to get it. He worked hard ...
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16 July, 2013
Julie Bell should be singled out as winning the most awards in any one competition ARC has ever held. In the 2012/2013 ARC Salon she won First Place in the Imaginative Realist Category, First and Th ...
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29 May, 2014
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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20 June, 2014
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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30 June, 2014
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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4 February, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Anna Wypych as an ARC Living Master™.
Obvious true, there is one girl not two by Anna Wypych
Anna Wypych's works of art transcend the commonplace to enter the realm ...
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4 May, 2015
We are pleased to welcome Shane Wolf as our newest ARC Living Master™.Educated in the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, in Florence, Shane Wolf (originally from Cincinnati) attended the prestigious A ...
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23 December, 2015
ARC is pleased to announce Joshua LaRock as our newest ARC Living Master™.“LaRock's works are an ode to the past while being filtered through his contemporary point of reference. Even when referencin ...
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19 February, 2016
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 ...
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17 January, 2017
Greg Hildebrandt and his identical twin brother, Tim, were born in Detroit, Michigan in 1939. Both boys were avid artists from a young age and carried their artistic passion with them throughout their ...
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29 June, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Wang Kun as our newest ARC Living Master™."In terms of character expression, I am more likely to focus on depicting Chinese women. They are dignified and beautiful with uniqu ...
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8 August, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Mary Pettis as our newest Living Master™."Mary Pettis divides her time equally between the studio and outdoors. Her decades of training and the experiences from hundred ...
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22 April, 2014
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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