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ARC is the Eye of the Storm, at the core, hub and center of a major cultural shift in the art world. With a growing body of experts, we are setting standards to become ARC Approved™ for artists, art schools, systems of training, museum exhibitions and historical scholarship, to bring guidance, direction, goals and reality to an art establishment that has been sailing rudderless for nearly a hundred years. Additionally, the Art Renewal Center is a non-profit educational organization committed to reviving standards of craftsmanship and excellence. Only by gaining a full command of the skills of the past masters can we create the masters of tomorrow. This is a step forward for our culture. Experimentation and creativity can only succeed and prosper when built on a solid foundation of past accomplishments, with the tools which empower artists to realize their visions. Nothing has been more restricting and debilitating than the theories of modernism, which eliminated these tools, along with the skills to employ them. We are providing a forum for artists, scholars, collectors and the public to appreciate great art, and to recognize that they're not alone in their suspicions about the emptiness of modern and postmodern art. These suspicions are fully justified by the overwhelming body of evidence and historical facts.
$30,000 in Scholarship Grants This Year Deadline: June 18, 2008 Click here for more info. The Art Renewal Center's International 2008 ARC Salon™ Win International Recognition Overnight Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors. More than $44,000 in Awards Compete and Win in 5 Categories Award Winners and Finalists will be featured on the Art Renewal Center website and in our full color exhibition book, the ARC Salon Catalogue Click here for the ARC Salon prospectus. 
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The Art Renewal Center's International 2008 ARC Salon™ Win International Recognition Overnight Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors. More than $44,000 in Awards Compete and Win in 5 Categories Award Winners and Finalists will be featured on the Art Renewal Center website and in our full color catalogue. Awards Best in Show: $10,000 cash award plus gallery space in the Museum section of the ARC’s website. Gallery space will include the artist’s biographical information accompanied by 1 to 5 web pages of the artist’s finest works. The winner will also gain automatic acceptance as an ARC Approved Artist with exemption from the application process and $150 application fee.. The William Bouguereau Award - Emotion, Theme, and the Figure: $3,000 5 First Place Awards: $2,500 awarded in each category 5 Second Place Awards: $1,000 awarded in each category 5 Third Place Awards: $500 awarded in each category Chairman's Choice Award: 2 Awarded at $500 each ARC Staff Award: 4 Awarded at $100 each People's Choice Award: $100 cash award. Winner will be selected by the public from the top 100 finalists through an online voting system at www.artrenewal.org. Minimum of $10,000 in Purchase Awards Works do not have to be for sale to be eligible for the competition. Purchase awards will be chosen from the finalists by our four judges and awarded at the sole discretion of the ARC's Chairman, Fred Ross. 30 Honorable Mentions: Award winners will receive an Award Certificate and have their winning artwork accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website. Top 100 Finalists will have their entry accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website and will also be featured in the 2008 ARC Salon™ Catalog. For more details on how to enter you can download entry forms in either PDF or Microsoft Word format. Entry Deadline: September 6, 2008 To see the winners from the 2007 ARC Salon™ have a look at the announcement of the winners. posted at Friday, April 25, 2008
the Oil Painter's of America Conference. posted at Monday, April 07, 2008
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I too am staggered by the art of Bouguereau and for the past two weeks have been obsessed with coming to grips with and redefining the "new" nature of late 19th century art and his vision of the human being. You have begun an enormous and incalculable task which will redefine the late 19th century in art as much as Mendelssohn redefined the late Baroque by revealing Bach for us nearly 100 years after his death. Thank you sounds so weak for this.... Dr. Richard J. Scruggs Assistant Professor of Music posted at Friday, April 04, 2008
My husband hasn't start complaining yet... But if he does, you will be guilty as charged! For since I discovered your wesite, less than a week ago, I've been spending hours and hours visiting your online museum and reading your articles. Lunch and dinner are late, I let him alone in the living room watching TV and I go to bed long after him. I can't even begin to describe the sense of relief and joy to see that I'm not alone in this world! Am I the only one, I used to think, who doesn't enjoy "modern art"? Is anything wrong with me for not wanting to go to a much "acclaimed" Picasso exhibition here in São Paulo, Brazil, where thousands os students were taken to? I have a B.A. in Language and Literature (Brazilian and Portuguese) and work as a translator. I'm an art lover (not a collector or anything, I don't have the money for that, but simply someone who loves art), I've always enjoyed the arts of the 19th Century, but was amazed to find out, thanks to you, that this century was even better than I ever thought, in terms of art. I thought of doing a post-graduate course in Art History, but decided that the money would be better spent in visits to the most famous museums in the world... Without exaggeration, I thank God for letting me live (I'm 42) to discover, thanks to you, magnificent works of art like those of Bouguereau. I've already chosen six of his paintings to decorate my bedroom and I'll buy the prints as soon as I can. Dare I dream to have you here in São Paulo one day, speaking to our universities, our media, bringing a 19th century collection to delight thousands, millions of beauty- hungry, silent, anonymous eyes and souls like mine? Just the other day, when a Picasso painting was stolen from a museum in São Paulo, and found some days later for the relief and joy of so many who cried over the loss of such "masterpiece", I said to my brother: "I hope I live long enough to see the fraud of modern art be exposed." You've made me believe that this is not only possible, but is already happening. Best regards, Susana L. Alexandria posted at Friday, April 04, 2008
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Deadline is June 18, 2008 $30,000 in grants are available this year. Students of painting and sculpture will submit examples of paintings and sculpture rendered from life and representative of nature as reflected in figurative studies and compositions, landscapes, still lives, and portraits -- work that that seeks to capture a fully recognizable likeness of the model. Scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of merit. There is no application fee. 2008 ARC Scholarship Prospectus posted at Wednesday, March 19, 2008
by Han Wu Shen March 17, 2008 Sotheby's New York, Lot 236 Girl with a Lantern, by Han Wu Shen, the Great Contemporary Realist and ARC Master , will be offered at the Contemporary Arts of Asia Auction at Sotheby's New York this month. Having sold at the Hong Kong Auctions in 2005, 2006 and 2007 at ever increasing prices, this is the first American auction for Mr. Shen. Shen's work has been compared to the great Chinese Realist, Wang Yidong, who now sells for as high as $1,000,000 per canvas. Han Wu Shen's work is seen as an incredible opportunity, as the value of his paintings has an unlimited potential right now. This is the second Sotheby's Auction offering works by ARC Living Mastersâ„¢ : Read about the Groundbreaking Auction at Sotheby's NY on October 10, 2007 offering the works of 3 ARC Living Mastersâ„¢ posted at Friday, March 14, 2008
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