William Bouguereau
Shepherdess
Raphael Sanzio
The Madonna of the Chair
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Pelt Merchant of Cairo
Lord Leighton
Music Lesson
John Everett Millais
The Bridesmaid
John William Godward
Nerissa
Lord Frederick Leighton
Flaming June
William Bouguereau
The Little Pouter
William Bouguereau
The Little Gourmet
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Silver Favourites
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
A Coign of Vantage
Edward Burne-Jones
The Godhead Fires
William Bouguereau
Invading Cupid's Realm
Edmund Blair Leighton
God Speed!
J.W. Godward
A Classical Lady
William Bouguereau
First Kiss
Jean-Léon Gérôme
The Serpent Charmer
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Harem in the Kiosk
Frank Dicksee
La Belle Dam Sans Merci
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ELCOME. You have just entered the largest on-line Museum on the internet. A work in progress, steadily expanding with thousands of high quality images of the greatest paintings and sculpture in history, the Art Renewal Center is building an encyclopedic collection of essays, biographies and articles by top scholars in the field.
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 of ARC Approval 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.
Features
Go to: ARC Museum, Website Updates, ARC Philosophy, Articles, Letters to ARC, Mission Statement, ARC Salon & Scholarship Competition, Membership and Donations, Links, Quote of the Week
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Click HERE to defend art history against David Hockney's theory...
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"Oppressors Accuse their Victims of Oppression"
Modernist Tactic Exposed
"I would prefer there was no art, and no great paintings anywhere in the world, than that the freedoms and liberties that we hold so dear would be lost." (ARC Chairman, Fred Ross)
There are some who have misquoted me, or, worse, libeled ARC's philosophy and goals by claiming that we seek to repress artistic freedom. I would prefer there was no art, and no great paintings anywhere in the world, than that the freedoms and liberties that we hold so dear would be lost. Ironically it is modernism and modernists that have for nearly a century suppressed traditional realists from the freedom to express themselves artistically. It is Realism which has been virtually banned in most of the fine art departments in colleges and universities throughout the western world.
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Click HERE to read the ARC Chairman's speech.
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Lucinda's Secret
Editorial Reviews
Christopher Forbes, author / scholar / philanthropist, Forbes Magazine:
"... a delicious novel combining fact inspired fiction and whimsy ... a story with insights and delights for all ages ..."
Lucinda Vinetrope is 12" high and made of 100% intelligent plant life! She is feisty, a little domineering, and a lot like a teenager and a grandma rolled into one. She can glow at will, a lovely shade of orange, and her light has life altering abilities. For one thing, it can gift the power of language to animals. For another, it may hold the secret to clean energy. Lucinda ripens on her vine, and steps into the backyard of 11-year-old Sara. Sara is bright, inquisitive, sensitive, and often lonely. When Lucinda and Sara meet they begin an adventure that will alter the history of Mankind. Don't miss this original fantasy filled with humor, magic, wisdom and tears. The Light of Lucinda, 297 pgs., for 8 to 12-yr -olds "and the young of heart!" Customers receive a FREE ARC Membership with purchase. All funds are donated to ARC.
Click here to order Light of Lucinda and don't miss the fun.
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SUCCESS Beyond Our Wildest Dreams
The Art Renewal Center is proud to announce success beyond our wildest dreams. Only 3 and a half years ago we launched the ARC website. The nourishment for the soul provided by ARC is so abundant in beautiful, humanistic, and life affirming art, that the world has practically beaten a path to our door.
ARC is tracking at the unbelievable pace of 334,000,000 hits per year from over 5,200,000 visitors. And that's if we don't have any more growth. If we factor in our current growth rate, we project 9,460,000 visitors in 2004 with more than 584,000,000 hits. If we were to slow to half our current growth rate, we project by the year 2010 that ARC will enjoy 37,000,000 visitors per year delivering 3.5 trillion hits per year.
Can there be any doubt? The Art Renewal Center is helping to revolutionize the entire art world, which is ready, willing, and able for a major cultural shift. People are yearning for beautifully crafted poetic works about humanity.
Nothing less will do.
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ARC's First International Salon(tm)
The Art Renewal Center takes great pride in presenting the winners of ARC's First International Salon Competition(tm).
Above all, the quality of the art and artists is beyond all of our highest expectations. No doubt that in just another few years, ARC's Living Masters(tm) and ARC Approved Ateliers and Art schools will be producing masters and masterpieces the likes of which the world hasn't seen in one hundred years.
There has been an overwhelming response to the competition, as the ARC received well over 1,100 entries from all over the world. From the USA to China, the very best artists from over a dozen countries have enthusiastically participated.
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MIA shamefully to sell masterpiece by
Bouguereau
Following now in a shameful tradition of infamy, yet another major American museum is being lead into disastrous decisions by curators or directors who were trained by modernist ideologues during the mid-20th century. The Minneapolis Art Institute under the guidance of Patrick Noon has decided to sell a major masterpiece, Bohémienne, by William Bouguereau, perhaps the greatest artist of the entire 19th century, in order to purchase a major work by Albert Joseph Moore, an important member of the English Aesthetic Movement, but at best a rather emotionless member of that movement who took their ideology to an extreme by purposely removing any feelings in order to emphasize pretty women in carefully worked out elements of design and color. Globally speaking, a 2nd or 3rd rank master ...
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ARC now offers a Frequently Asked Questions forum
Brian Yoder contributed thirty entries in our new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) forum in the ARChives. Starting with the question of "what is art", and how to distinguish good from bad examples, Brian proceeds to give a brilliant exposition of all the fallacies attending Modernism. He addresses such questions, for example, as whether objective judgments can (or can not) be made about art, whether artefacts from different cultures are all equal, the role of illustration, comic book art, and photography, etc. He has compiled these responses after years of correspondence with visitors to his website, and has kindly donated them to ARC's forum, the ARChives.
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ARC Approved Ateliers! *
The listing so many of you have been waiting for is finally available.
At last there is a place where talented young people can find an approved list of schools and programs where they can go with confidence that they will receive real step by step training on how to create great art.
Countless thousands of talented young people for many years, have been sent to thousands of university art deparments to be taught by people who know nothing about the art of painting and sculpture. Countless millions of dollars have been wasted along with all that potential and talent, the best of which usually quit in complete disillusionment. Now there is a home for them and a body of experts to whom they can turn with assurance.
* The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is a private, not-for-profit foundation, that has experienced classically trained artists, art historians and scholars, whose judgement is based on years of experience and research, with expertise and standards for reviewing and approving schools, artists and ateliers that foster the classical tradition in art and are deemed worthy of recognition by ARC. Such recognition does not reflect in any way the support or accreditation of the United States Department of Education or any other governmental entity authorized to accredit educational programs or institutions. In fact ARC may be in disagreement with such institutions or agencies, most of which we believe have been warped or even over-run by Modernist ideology and theory. You should use our recommendations if you accept the principles, philosophy and mission of the Art Renewal Center.
Our thanks go to Lillian Wilson for her tireless efforts in amassing and collating all of this valuable information. We'd also like to thank Paul McCormack for his many dedicated hours spent collating a list of classes of interest to students of realism.
ARC now offers high quality Prints on Heavy Fine Art Board that must be shipped flat unlike posters.
ARC is very pleased to offer a truly unique service. We now have the ability to custom print a single poster on demand from any one of the planned 50,000 images on our site. This is available in two sizes, on photo quality paper. ARC's Museum Store will soon be offering many other items.
Quote of the Month ::
"I think that attitudes about race and sex in 19th century Europe and America are rather skewed by historians and commentators with contemporary fish to fry. What was remarkable about the 19th century in these areas was not how backward people's ideas on these topics were, but how for the first time in history they were not so backward. Remember, until that time every major culture in history had engaged in slavery, and pretty serious racial/ethnic provincialism. The astounding thing about 19th century Europe and America was that they eliminated slavery and started doing crazy new things like letting women vote, own property, and so on. Of course these changes for the better didn't happen overnight and it wasn't instantly perfect (how could it have been otherwise?) but overall I think that Victorians and their contemporaries primarily deserve credit for moving away from these evils, not blame for not having done so instantly and perfectly."
-- Brian K. Yoder, ARC Advisor
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Articles
Assembled here are some of the finest articles on art and artists by such renowned scholars as Vern Swanson, Gabriel P. Weisberg and Steven Levin. The collection ranges from an exposé on the hoax of modernism, an intimate tour of the collection of Fred and Sherry Ross, to the re-evaluation of the reputations of such great artists as William Bouguereau, John William Godward, Ives Gammell and many more.
Here are but some of the articles in our ever-growing collection:
- The Atelier versus Academia: The Pitfalls of University Art Education, by Kirk Richards
- Velázquez or Bouguereau? Who's was the more 'honest' art? by Juan Martinez
- Obituary of Frank Dicksee by Paul Ripley
Letter to the Editor from Luis Estremadoyro.
- Modern Masters of Etching: Anders Zorn, by Malcom C. Salaman
- Louvre Buys Bouguereau, by ARC Staff
A Strong Academician, An Innovative Realist, by Sherry Lazarus Ross
- Obituary of Edward Poynter, by Paul Ripley
- A Review of 'Exposed: The Victorian Nude' at the Brooklyn Museum, by Sherry Lazarus Ross
Frans Hals, by Virgil Elliott
- Dictionary of Human Form, by Ted Seth Jacobs
- Obituary of Briton Riviere, by Paul Ripley
- The Painter in Oil, by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
- Resurgence of the 19th Century Market at April Sales, by the ARC Editorial Staff
- Meaningful Art in a Meaningful Universe: the Fallacies of Abstractionist Ideology, by Frederick Turner
- John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, by Vern Swanson
- Biography of William Bouguereau, by Damien Bartoli
- Bouguereau at Work, by Mark Walker
- SORA: Classical Training in Downtown Chicago, by Peter Bougie
- Impressionism Revisited, by Ted Seth Jacobs
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Museum
The ARC Museum is presently a work in progress. When brought to completion it will host one of the largest collections of art to be found on the internet.
Here are some of the artists already exhibited in our galleries:
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Central Philosophy
Read the essay by our Chairman, Fred Ross, on the decline and fall of classical painting and values, and what we can all do to bring about a renaissance of beauty.
"For over 90 years, there has been a concerted and relentless effort to disparage, denigrate and obliterate the reputations, names, and brilliance of the academic artistic masters of the late 19th Century. Fueled by a cooperative press, the ruling powers have held the global art establishment in an iron grip. Equally, there was a successful effort to remove from our institutions of higher learning all the methods, techniques and knowledge of how to train skilled artists. Five centuries of critical data was nearly thrown into the trash ..."
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