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Study at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK with two American Master Artists. Choose one or both. BACAA/Jon deMartin The Elements of Classical Drawing the Human Figure: https://tinyurl.com/2dh2 ...

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Come to London to study with artist Carlo Russo. The workshop will be held in an historic studio in Chelsea, UK with amazing north facing windows and light. Inspired by 17th century Dutch masters such ...

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Join BACAA for this exciting workshop in beautiful Oxford England from June 21-26, 2024. During the six day intensive workshop, students will learn a sequential approach to confidently draw the human ...

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BACAA/Tony Ryder Intensive Portrait Drawing Master Workshop  -  Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK 2025 Join ARC Living Master Anthony Ryder and the ARC Approved Atelier, BACAA on a five-day drawi ...

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The Barcelona Academy of Art, like many other art schools around the world, is currently closed in an effort to stop the Covid-19 epidemic. To keep positive in these difficult times and consolidate ...

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Giorgos Rorris was born in Kosmas, Arcadia Kinourias in 1963. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Panagiotis Tetsis and Yiannis Valavanidis. He continued his studies at the É ...

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The article Bargue Encore, by Peter Trippi, has recently been added to the ARC website. "For anyone interested in traditional art instruction, 19th century culture, or even just superb pr ...

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Support the DVI on Patreon! Subscribers gain exclusive access to bonus tips and tricks videos with additional educational footage as well as access to the weekly footage one day in advance of the gen ...

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Lesson 16 in the Bargue course has just been released on Patreon!Viewers supporting DVI on Patreon gain exclusive access to bonus tips and tricks videos with additional educational footage as well a ...

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BargueEncore offers a new opportunity to discover the context in which Charles Bargue's drawing course was created. Now, you can own a plate from his collection of lithographs, produced without compro ...

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19 February, 2020

Baroque in Britain From the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, the late Stuart period was a time of change for Britain. This exhibition will explore how art and a ...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY is showing the first major exhibition devoted to Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), a fascinating artist who served a cardinal, a pope, and two Holy Roman Empero ...

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From the glimmer of a jewel to the sheen of armour, Bermejo’s ability to capture light, colours and textures in oil painting was unparalleled in 15th-century Spain. Bringing together seven of his ...

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The Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier is offering a great line up of workshops with master artists Graydon Parrish, Tony Curanaj and Juliette Aristides. BACAA is also hosting open model sessions on W ...

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Beloved children’s book author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) rooted her fiction in the natural world. Childhood summers spent in Scotland and the English Lake District nourished Potter’s ...

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This exhibition features books and related ephemera published by Kelmscott Press, established in Hammersmith, London, in 1891 by William Morris, novelist, poet and leading figure in the British Arts a ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Narelle Zeller has been selected as a finalist in the 6th Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize ...

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25 February, 2021

Beautiful Things is a hauntingly elegant group exhibition featuring landscape, florals, wildlife and more. This exhibition features things classically considered aesthetically pleasing, yet thumbs t ...

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ARC Living Master™ Patricia Watwood's solo show "Beauty and Terror" will be on view at Dacia Gallery in New York City from April 30- May 17, 2019.  This new body of figurative paintin ...

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11 November, 2015

The Florence Academy of Arts held its first Beaux Arts Ball this past Friday, the 6th of November, 2015, at the elegant catering facility, Cipriani's 25 on Broadway. It was a huge success in raising f ...

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We wanted to share with our viewers a letter that was sent to us in response to Sotheby’s Hong Kong featuring four paintings by ARC Living Master™ Han-Wu Shen at their 20th Century Chinese Art April ...

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ARC Living Master Luis Alvarez Roure will be participating in a benefit auction to raise money for the homeless and will donate a percentage of the auction’s proceeds to Habitat for Humanity. Biddi ...

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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is holding the first Canadian exhibition on Orientalism. Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism -From Spain to Morocco unveils the forgotten figure of a master of the genr ...

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The plan would display modern art and store old masters paintings for years. Half of the Gemäldegalerie’s entire collection of old masters paintings, one of Europe’s greatest, will be going into stor ...

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This exhibition celebrates the work of Giovan Lorenzo Bernini and the brilliance of the Roman Baroque period. Working for popes and princes, Bernini was one of the brightest luminaries in the history ...

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Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist focuses on the artist’s treatment of the modern figure through approximately 70 paintings from public and private collections around the world. A timely reev ...

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The Frick Collection presents the first-ever exhibition on the Florentine sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440–1491), a renowned student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, and a great favor ...

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Nathan Bertling's self-portrait Quick to Listen (oil on linen) was recently awarded Best in Show at the annual open painting, sculpture, and graphics exhibition at the Salmagundi Club. This competitiv ...

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This annual exhibition features the best works of the students/artists of the ARC ApprovedTM Chiaroscuro Atelier. The show runs from April 26 - May 17, 2018 with the opening reception on ...

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Betsy James Wyeth devoted much of her adult life to supporting the work of the three artists in the family that she became part of: Andrew Wyeth, whom she married in 1939; his father, Newell Convers ...

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The Graphic Arts Cabinet presents drawings by Czech artists who, in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, spent time in Paris, the contemporary Mecca of the Arts. The artists captu ...

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The MEAM and TIAC Academy of Fine Arts Florence present "Beyond Language, Contemporary Chinese Realism",  an exhibition of works by Chinese artists dedicated to traditional oil painti ...

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Denmark in the nineteenth century experienced the disastrous fallout of the Napoleonic Wars, the devastating bombardment of Copenhagen, bankruptcy, and mounting antagonism with Germany. Yet, this soci ...

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30 May, 2019

The ARC Approved Florence Classical Arts Academy is holding an exhibition of biblical themed paintings created by their students. The exhibition also celebrates 10 years of the Academy.   &nbs ...

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ARC is pleased to announce another major event at Sotheby’s New York. Following the success of the auction “Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works” associated to the 15th International ARC ...

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Bids are now being accepted for important works at Sotheby’s NY by Hiroshi Furuyoshi (lot 166), Christopher Remmers (lot 143), Evgeniy Monahov (lot 149), Randalf Dilla (lot 225), Vincent Figliol ...

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25 January, 2024

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present “Big Stories,” a group exhibition featuring large-scale, contemporary figurative paintings influenced by the narrative tradition. Curated by Bo Bartle ...

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The ARC ApprovedSM Grand Central Atelier is holding their annual holiday party with silent auction, live raffle, and exhibition on December 14, 2018 from 6-10 pm. Painted still life sketches by GCA ...

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11 April, 2024

Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Bill Farnsworth for winning Overall First Place in the February 2024 PleinAir Salon for his painting “Looking East”. “Every day life has a story no matte ...

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2 May, 2018

Organized by The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, this exhibition presents a juried collection of 60 outstanding contemporary artistic interpretations of birds and related subje ...

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Rehs Gallery is holding a small works exhibit featuring a wide variety of paintings that all measure 12 x 12 inches or less. Among the 20 included artists will be ARC Living Artist Stuart Dunkel, AR ...

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Blue Cocoby Shaun Downey"Blue CoCo", by ARC Master&traade; Shaun Downey has been selected for exhibition in the 2010 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Click here ...

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'Body and Soul', organized in collaboration with the Castello Sforzesco Museum in Milan, seeks to bring to light the main themes and ideas developed in Italy during the second half of the Quattrocen ...

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The virtuoso and prolific artist Louis-Léopold Boilly became an enthusiastic chronicler of Paris for sixty years, from one revolution to the dawn of another (1789 and 1848). He is both the portrait pa ...

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13 December, 2017

We are pleased to announce  BoldBrush/FASO as the Landscape Category Sponsor for the 13th International ARC Salon Competition. BoldBrush is a free online art guild f ...

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Born in Ferrara, Italy in 1842, Boldini spent most of his career in Paris. He was a close friend of Degas and also of Proust, and moved in aristocratic and upper middle-class circles. During his lifet ...

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Classical Painting Atelierby Juliette Aristides"Julette Aristides' second book, Classical Painting Atelier , a Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice, is the book Western Culture has been w ...

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16 November, 2012

As of this week, we are selling fine art books on many of the most popular artists in the ARC museum. You may have already noticed that under the artist bio and above the images we have a bar for "Boo ...

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This juried exhibition features the work of painters and sculptors who are members of the Booth Artists’ Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational programs. ARC Living Master Sivananda Nyaya ...

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Founded in the 19th century, Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen possesses one of the world's finest collections of 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish drawings. Bosch to Bloemaert  ...

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The Seventeenth Annual Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS), starts next week, Thursday - Sunday, November 21-24, 2013 at The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for The Arts, 539 Tremont Street i ...

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The exhibition, the largest and most important display of Botticelli’s works in the United States, features 24 paintings.Sandro Botticelli exemplifies the artistic achievement of Renaissance Floren ...

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The Musée Jacquemart-André will celebrate the creative genius of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and the activity of his workshop, by exhibiting around forty works by the master, along with several pa ...

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19 December, 2023

Botticelli Drawings is the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Exploring the foundational role drawing played in Botticelli’s work, the exhibition ...

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Spanning more than 400 years of artistic production, this exhibition highlights works by many of the greatest painters from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. See this rare presentation of s ...

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For the first time in its near 200-year history, the National Gallery, London has toured an exhibition of works internationally. Drawing on the strengths of their collection, this exhibition offers ...

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The Musée du Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles pay tribute to Edme Bouchardon, a renowned French sculptor and draftsman, who was considered an exceptional artist in his own time.Th ...

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8 February, 2019

Bouguereau & America showcases more than forty masterful paintings by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The exhibition explores the artist’s remarkable popularity thro ...

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25 February, 2020

Comprising nearly 40 masterful paintings by Bouguereau, this exhibition will bring together many of the artist’s most important works, such as Le repos, 1879; Young Girl Defending Herself Against Er ...

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Sotheby’s is pleased to present Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now, a celebration of works realized and inspired by William Bouguereau, one of the leading Academic painters of the late-19th centu ...

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ARC Chief Operating Officer, Kara Lysandra Ross, has recently written and published an article in the Epoch Times about the upcoming exhibit “Bouguereau’s Fancies: Allegorical and Mythological Works ...

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Dear Fred, I have to compliment you on the Bouguereau books: they are beautiful—what a huge undertaking!!!! Complimenti davvero! John Angel ...

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8 September, 2011

The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund has paid for 50% of 100 two volume sets of the Bouguereau Biography and Catalogue Raisonné; splitting the cost with ARC. These books are to be donated to ARC ...

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I am a third year student at Georgetown Atelier in Seattle, WA. Our instructor, Tenaya Sims, brought in the beautiful addition of the Bouguereau Catalog Raisonne that you offered our school. ...

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The remaining supply of Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonne two volume box sets are extremely limited. The next 6 sets sold will be at $480 and then the price will increase to $620 per set. If you would lik ...

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To all William Bouguereau fans, the six copies of the two volume set Catalogue Raisonne at $480 mentioned in our last Bouguereau book announcement have all been sold, and the next six are now ...

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The Catalog Raisonne includes information on all of William Bouguereau's 826 known paintings, as well as most of the 600 page biography written by Damien Bartoli, along with an introduction by Fred Ro ...

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The Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonné is now on sale for $299.00 discounted from its original $350.00 price.There are less than 100 copies left of the original 2,000 printing.Volume I - BiographyOver 340 ...

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The Catalog Raisonné jointly published by the Art Renewal Center® and the Antique Collectors Club, is almost sold out. ARC now retains the only supply of available copies, and we have decided to put ...

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Hi Mr. Ross, Thank you so very much! It is a gift for my husband (AND myself, of course!..) Regular Priority Mail is fine.... I appreciate your taking the time to answer my query... I can't wait ...

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"I just received my copy of the Bouguereau Catalog Raisonne- took my breath away! Fred what an awe inspiring compendium! - Akshay Sanghavi " Click here to read the full letter. To see more rev ...

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The Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala Florida has an exhibition of 65 paintings by William Bouguereau and his students (going on since February 10). The title of the exhibition is In the Studios of Par ...

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The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, FL is currently exhibiting nineteen mythological and allegorical paintings and drawings by William Bouguereau. The works span the artist's entire career, and the exh ...

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6 Paintings by William Bouguereau dominated Sotheby's 19th Century Auction on October 23rd. Amazingly, of 276 paintings sold, the 6 Bouguereaus represented fully 35% of the $25,000,000 sale.The pace a ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Louise Feneley's painting 'Bouquet - Natura Morte' has received a 'Highly Commended' distinction in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. &quo ...

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4 September, 2018

The National Museum of Brazil, a 200 year old institution and the largest museum in Brazil, has been tragically destroyed in a fire last Sunday night.  Although the extent of the damage is unk ...

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25 October, 2010

Dear Mr. Ross, The magnificent Catalog Raissone on William Bouguereau arrived. Please accept my heartfelt appreciation for the monumental effort to write and publish it. I have begun the pleasant j ...

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This exhibition celebrates recent additions to the collection by British artists who worked across two centuries, from 1700 to 1900. Landscape is a focus here, with the genre becoming closely allied t ...

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This exhibition showcases the Lyman Allyn’s collection of European paintings, highlighting a selection of portraits, history paintings, religious scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, and genre scenes fr ...

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4 January, 2019

This is the first-ever major monograph exhibition dedicated to the 16th-century Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder in commemoration of the 450th anniversary of his death. Over 90 ...

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12 March, 2021

The 17th Annual Bryn Du Art Show will be held from March 5 - 27, 2021 at the Bryn Du Mansion, 537 Jones Rd NE, Granville, OH 43023. ARC Associate Living Master Debra Keirce will be among the exhibit ...

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Burne-Jones' Love among the Ruins brings over 22 million dollars at Christie's London on July 11th, almost 15 million pounds. This sets a new world record for the artist's work, the third highest pr ...

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Click the image above to see the newly improved Burne-Jones Gallery. ...

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Women artists played a vibrant yet overlooked role in Italy around 1600. The first exhibition solely dedicated to Italian women artists at the Wadsworth, "By Her Hand" explores how importa ...

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The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization™ , is holding it's 106th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition. This year's Gold Medal Exhibition spotlights nearly 200 representational works of art from r ...

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The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization, will be holding it's 106th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition from April 9 – 30, 2017 at the Autry Museum of the American West - 4700 Western Heritage W ...

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  ARC Allied Organization, The California Art Club, is holding an annual exhibition of contemporary-traditional fine art that spotlights work from more than 220 artists – more than a third of ...

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As the California Art Club unveiled its hallmark exhibition at an Exposition Park museum after a nearly 70-year absence, the century-old arts organization bestowed honors upon both veteran and emergin ...

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Classically L.A will run from January 7 – through February 8, 2013, though the opening reception is tonight from 5 to 7pm for all who can attend. The show features the work of several of their membe ...

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Dobrota by Adrian GottliebThe California Art Club an ARC Allied Organization™ will present the 103rd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Ange ...

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The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization™ , will exhibit more than 60 small works at the historic Old Mill, 1120 Old Mill Road, San Marino, CA.The selected works include serene seascapes ...

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Peter Adams, the president of the ARC Allied Organization™ the California Arts Club, will present an exclusive artist talk titled “The Ephemeral and the Ethereal,” on Wednesday, August 12, beginning ...

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The apprenticeship is based on drawing before approaching oil painting, and aims for a level of excellence in contemporary classical realist art. The support is individual, adjusted in consultation wi ...

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1 August, 2017

The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries to the 13th International ARC Salon Competition. This year we are introducing a 9th category dedicated to plein air painting, as well as a few new excit ...

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The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries to the 15th International ARC Salon Competition. The top award this year is $25,000 for Best in Show and over 140 awards and honorable mentions are be ...

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The Guide Artists, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their first awards competition. Their aim is to make this one of the most prestigious portrait painting competitions in the world, represen ...

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Determination under Persecution by Qing Xin, winner of the gold award at NTDTV’s 3rd International Chinese Figure Painting Competition. (Courtesy of Zhengjian.org) The New Tang Dynasty Television is ...

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The Art Renewal Center is now accepting entries to the 16th International ARC Salon Competition. When talking about competitions dedicated to 21st Century Realism, The International ARC Salon is ...

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The American Artists Professional League is holding their 96th Grand National Exhibition Call for Entries.  The entry period deadline is August 7, 2024.  The competition is open to artists w ...

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The American Artists Professional League is holding their 96th Grand National Exhibition Call for Entries.  Apply online at ShowSubmit.com from May 16 to August 7, 2024. The competition is o ...

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