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The '''Art Renewal Center''' ('''ARC''') is a non-profit, educational organization, which hosts an online museum dedicated to realist art.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fsYAAAAYAAJ&q=%22art+renewal+center%22 |title=Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies |volume=12,13 |publisher=[[Arizona State University]] |year=2003 |page=98}}</ref><ref name="Elkins_2013">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWeMAQAAQBAJ&q=art+renewal+center&pg=PA128 |chapter=The Importance of Skill |title=Master Narratives and their Discontents |last=Elkins |first=James |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-135-87257-1 |page=128}}</ref> The ARC was founded by [[New Jersey]] businessman, author,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://magart.rochester.edu/CUS.18.Bibliography._4954?sid=16439&x=381499&x=381500 |title=MAG Collection - 404 Page Not Found |website=magart.rochester.edu |access-date=18 March 2020 |archive-date=1 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201031907/https://magart.rochester.edu/CUS.18.Bibliography._4954?sid=16439&x=381499&x=381500 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn11/review-of-william-bouguereau-by-damien-bartoli-with-frederick-c-ross |title=Review of William Bouguereau by Damien Bartoli, with Frederick C. Ross |journal=Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide |date=Autumn 2011 |volume=10 |issue=2 |last1=Allan |first1=Scott C.}}</ref> and art collector Fred Ross.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.vagazette.com/life/va-vg-wag-gulay-living-artist-20180126-story.html |title="Living Artist": Williamsburg Art Gallery owner earns national recognition |last=Birkenmeyer |first=Seth |date=2 January 2018 |work=[[The Virginia Gazette]] |access-date=21 November 2018}}</ref>
The '''Art Renewal Center''' ('''ARC''') is a US organization led by [[New Jersey]] businessman, author,<ref>{{citeweb|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=5S-iAQAACAAJ&dq=William+Bouguereau:+His+Life+and+Works&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirhorJobnUAhWm6YMKHco2C2UQ6AEIJjAA|title=William Bouguereau: His life and works|authors= Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross|date=2014}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}} and art collector Fred Ross<ref name=roth/> that is dedicated to the promotion<ref name=roth/> of what it terms [[classical realism]] in art, as opposed to the [[Modernist]] and [[Postmodernist]] developments that may be seen as early as the 1890s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/component/courses/?view=course&cid=4105 |title=Course - To ‘Make it New’: the Modernist revolution in literature from the 1890s to the 1920s - University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education |publisher=Ice.cam.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2012-08-15}}</ref>{{Irrelevant citation|date=June 2017}} ARC is a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to the renewal of classical training and the re-appreciation of traditional art. The foundation functions mainly though its web site. In addition to providing the public with art educational tools such as articles, artist biographies, podcasts, upcoming and current exhibition information, information on the atelier and academy schools where the atelier method is still taught, and hosting a large online museum with more than 75,000 images dedicated to traditional painting, the foundation holds two competitions for living artists who paint in the realist tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/search.php |title=Art Renewal Center : Homepage |publisher=Artrenewal.org |accessdate=2013-10-23}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}} The International ARC Salon is open to all artists who paint using realistic imagery, and its scholarship competition was formed to aid aspiring artists learn traditional training methods.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/Salon/SalonProspectus.php |title=Art Renewal Center Salon Prospectus |publisher=Artrenewal.org |date=2012-03-01 |accessdate=2012-08-15}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/scholarshipapplication.php |title=Art Renewal Center |publisher=Artrenewal.org |date=2012-05-31 |accessdate=2012-08-15}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}}
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[[File:Godward-Classical Beauty.jpg|thumb|right|''Classical Beauty'', by [[John William Godward]], (collection of Sherry and Fred Ross)]]


Particular emphasis is given to nineteenth-century [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]] painting.<ref name="Elkins_2013" /> [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]] is represented by more than 226 images on the site; Ross says that Bouguereau's work is accessed twice as often as any other artist on the site.<ref name="Roth_2007" />
The foundation largely supports the contemporary classical realist movement, which is founded with realist imagery, but with contemporary subject matter. It has a section entitled "Approved Artist and Living Master's Gallery", which shows the work of many contemporary realist artists and includes several leaders of the movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/livingartists.php |title=ARC Galleries of ARC Approved™ Artists and ARC Living Masters™ |publisher=Artrenewal.org |date= |accessdate=2012-08-15}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}}<ref name=intute>Edwards, Alun. [http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=artifact5605 "ARC : art renewal center"], Intute: Arts and Humanities, 17 October 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2008.</ref>{{Failed verification|date=June 2017}}{{Dead link|date=June 2017}}


==History==
== Purpose ==
The Art Renewal Center is devoted to the rehabilitation of late nineteenth-century academic painting.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zzMrDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Art+Renewal+Center%22&pg=PA22 |title=The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Picturing Authenticity in Gilded Age America |last=Kresser |first=Katie |publisher=Routledge |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-351-54646-1 |page=22}}</ref> The Art Renewal Centre offers a scholarship program, as well as an annual salon competition in order to promote classical realism. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.artrenewal.org/Education/ArtScholarships#:~:text=This%20scholarship%20is%20designed%20to,an%20ARC%20Approved%E2%84%A2%20School.&text=This%20scholarship%20awards%20%2430%2C000%20a,Entries%20are%20accepted%20every%20May |title=Education |website=www.artrenewal.org}}</ref> Ross places an emphasis on William Bouguereau, and has written books about him, such as "William Bouguereau: His Life and Works". Ross feels that 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." The Art Renewal Center is intended as a platform for Ross and his supporters to "extol the virtues of academic artists and castigate nearly everything associated with modern art."<ref name="Roth_2007" /> The ARC describes itself as offering "responsible views opposing that of the current art establishment".<ref name="Elkins_2013" />
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[[File:Godward-Classical Beauty.jpg|thumb|left|''Classical Beauty'', by [[John William Godward]], (collection of Sherry and Fred Ross)]]


[[File:Bouguereau Nymphs and Satyr MMA cr.jpg|thumb|[[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], ''Nymphs and Satyr'', 1873, [[Clark Art Institute]]]]
The Art Renewal Center (ARC) was founded in 2000 by a group of artists, art collectors, historians, and enthusiasts and, is chaired by Fred Ross. It is a visual arts organisation that advocates the rejection of [[Modernism]] and the current art establishment, in favour of what it defines as the previously established "standards of craftsmanship and excellence". ARC sees the acquisition of academic skills as being essential for the art of the future.<ref name=intute/> It operates primarily through a web site sponsored by Fred Ross, a millionaire New Jersey businessman and art collector, who is a strong campaigner for the foundation.<ref name=roth/>
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Ross is a strong admirer of Adolphe Bouguereau's work. In 2002 he spoke to the New York Society of Portrait Artists and described the impression made on him in the [[Clark Art Institute]] by Bouguereau's {{convert|8.5|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} painting, ''Nymphs and Satyr'':

The web site examines values of art with articles, messages, and a detailed statement by Fred Ross, the foundation chairman.<ref name="intute" />{{Failed verification|date=June 2017}}{{Dead link|date=June 2017}} It is a campaigning site that is harshly critical of most modern art and, equally fervent about prior art.<ref name=roth/> The site contains nearly 63,000 images of past works as examples of the art it endorses, as well as listing contemporary artists, schools, and studios of which it approves.<ref name="intute" />{{Failed verification|date=June 2017}}{{Dead link|date=June 2017}} Particular emphasis is given to the work of French nineteenth-century [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]] painter [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], who is represented by more than 226 images on the site; Ross says that Bouguereau's work is accessed twice as often as any other artist on the site, including such esteemed artists as [[Michelangelo]].<ref name=roth>Roth, Mark. [http://www.post-gazette.com/frontpage/2007/08/20/Gifted-artist-Bouguereau-s-work-controversial-more-than-a-century-after-his-death/stories/200708200191 "Gifted artist? Bouguereau's work controversial more than a century after his death"], ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'', 21 August 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2017.</ref>
<blockquote>Frozen in place, gawking with my mouth agape, cold chills careening up and down my spine, I was virtually gripped as if by a spell that had been cast. Years of undergraduate courses and another 60 credits post-graduate in art, and I had never heard [Bouguereau's] name. Who was he? Was he important? Anyone who could have done this must surely be deserving of the highest accolades in the art world.<ref name="Roth_2007">{{Cite news |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/frontpage/2007/08/20/Gifted-artist-Bouguereau-s-work-controversial-more-than-a-century-after-his-death/stories/200708200191 |title=Gifted artist? Bouguereau's work controversial more than a century after his death |last=Roth |first=Mark |date=20 August 2007 |work=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |access-date=21 November 2018}}</ref></blockquote>

Ross wrote in an essay:
:"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... It is incredible how close Modernist theory, backed by an enormous network of powerful and influential art dealers, came to acquiring complete control over thousands of museums, university art departments and journalistic art criticism."<ref name=roth/>

[[Image:William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Nymphs and Satyr (1873).jpg|thumb|''Nymphs and Satyr'', by [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]], 1873]]
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Ross is a strong admirer of Bouguereau's work. In 2002 he spoke to the New York Society of Portrait Artists and described the impression made on him in the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) by Bouguereau's {{convert|8.5|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} painting, ''Nymphs and Satyr'':
:Frozen in place, gawking with my mouth agape, cold chills careening up and down my spine, I was virtually gripped as if by a spell that had been cast. Years of undergraduate courses and another 60 credits post-graduate in art, and I had never heard [Bouguereau's] name. Who was he? Was he important? Anyone who could have done this must surely be deserving of the highest accolades in the art world.<ref name=roth/>


==Online art museum==
==Online art museum==
The Art Renewal Center has an online digital art gallery that includes an extensive catalogue of high resolution images of drawings, sculptures, and paintings. This database of images have been provided for use in art history books, magazines, and newspapers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-kralik/the-arc-live-salon_b_8913534.html |title=The ARC Live Salon! |last=Kralik |first=Brandon |work=[[HuffPost]] |date=4 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdDyHiZeog4C&q=%22art+renewal+center%22&pg=PA15 |title=European Symbolism: In Search of Myth (1860-1910) |first=Natasha |last=Grigorian |date=19 May 2009 |publisher=Peter Lang |page=15 |isbn=978-3-03911-531-0 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/12/napoleon-and-th.html |title=Napoleon and the Sphinx |last=Sandell |first=Scott |date=13 December 2008 |website=latimesblogs.latimes.com}}</ref>
Art Renewal Center has an online art gallery that contains thousands of images. Some images require visitors to sign up for an account on the web site in order to view them. Paid account members have access to high-resolution images of paintings. <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2250841-a-one-of-a-kind-art-salon-champions-realism/|title=One of a Kind Art Salon Champions Realism}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-kralik/the-arc-live-salon_b_8913534.html|title=The ARC Live Salon}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=June 2017}}


==ARC Affiliated Artists==
==Criticism==
Artists who believe in the realist tradition can apply to be an affiliated artist and if they meet the requirement are giving one of three classifications: ARC Living Artist, ARC Associate Living Master, or ARC Living Master. With Living Masters being the highest classification given with artists receiving it such as [[Luis Alvarez Roure]], [[Igor Babailov]], and [[Virgil Elliott]].
ARC has received criticism even from some people with reservations about Modernism.<ref name=roth/> Artist and blogger [[Mark Vallen]] posted on his web site that the ARC assertions "are not incorrect when noting the follies of modern art, but their total rejection of it is beyond the pale and thoroughly reactionary."<ref name=roth/> Vallen was critical of Bouguereau: "Bouguereau's strength was his dedication to the craft of painting, and his technical mastery of oil painting can't be denied. If today's artists knew but a fraction of the painting skills possessed and employed by Bouguereau, they would be better off. Nevertheless, Bouguereau was also imprisoned by his extremely conservative vision of what painting could be—and that was his greatest weakness."<ref name=roth/>

== Prizes ==
ARC has run a scholarship project and, since 2003, an annual [[Salon (gathering)|salon]] competition.<ref name=intute/>{{Failed verification|date=June 2017}}{{Dead link|date=June 2017}} [[Dana E. Levin]] was one of the ARC International Scholarship winners in 2001 and 2002. In 2004, [[Donato Giancola]] won first place in the figurative category and Daniel Gerhartz won the best in show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2004/Salon/winners1.php|website=ArtRenewal.org|title=2004 Salon Winners}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}} Paul G. Oxborough won the best in show in 2005.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2005/Salon/winners1.php| website=ArtRenewal.org|title=2005 Salon Winners}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=June 2017}}


==References==
==References==
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== Further reading ==
* Ross, Fred. ''[https://www.artrenewal.org/Article/Title/the-philosophy-of-ARC The Philosophy of ARC: Why Realism?].''


==External links==
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Latest revision as of 07:44, 21 September 2024

Art Renewal Center
Founded1999[1]
FounderFred Ross
MethodARC Salon Competition, ARC International Scholarship
Key people
Fred Ross, Brian Yoder
Websiteartrenewal.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is a non-profit, educational organization, which hosts an online museum dedicated to realist art.[2][3] The ARC was founded by New Jersey businessman, author,[4][5] and art collector Fred Ross.[6]

Classical Beauty, by John William Godward, (collection of Sherry and Fred Ross)

Particular emphasis is given to nineteenth-century Salon painting.[3] William-Adolphe Bouguereau is represented by more than 226 images on the site; Ross says that Bouguereau's work is accessed twice as often as any other artist on the site.[7]

Purpose

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The Art Renewal Center is devoted to the rehabilitation of late nineteenth-century academic painting.[8] The Art Renewal Centre offers a scholarship program, as well as an annual salon competition in order to promote classical realism. [9] Ross places an emphasis on William Bouguereau, and has written books about him, such as "William Bouguereau: His Life and Works". Ross feels that 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." The Art Renewal Center is intended as a platform for Ross and his supporters to "extol the virtues of academic artists and castigate nearly everything associated with modern art."[7] The ARC describes itself as offering "responsible views opposing that of the current art establishment".[3]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs and Satyr, 1873, Clark Art Institute

Ross is a strong admirer of Adolphe Bouguereau's work. In 2002 he spoke to the New York Society of Portrait Artists and described the impression made on him in the Clark Art Institute by Bouguereau's 8.5-foot-tall (2.6 m) painting, Nymphs and Satyr:

Frozen in place, gawking with my mouth agape, cold chills careening up and down my spine, I was virtually gripped as if by a spell that had been cast. Years of undergraduate courses and another 60 credits post-graduate in art, and I had never heard [Bouguereau's] name. Who was he? Was he important? Anyone who could have done this must surely be deserving of the highest accolades in the art world.[7]

Online art museum

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The Art Renewal Center has an online digital art gallery that includes an extensive catalogue of high resolution images of drawings, sculptures, and paintings. This database of images have been provided for use in art history books, magazines, and newspapers.[10][11][12]

ARC Affiliated Artists

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Artists who believe in the realist tradition can apply to be an affiliated artist and if they meet the requirement are giving one of three classifications: ARC Living Artist, ARC Associate Living Master, or ARC Living Master. With Living Masters being the highest classification given with artists receiving it such as Luis Alvarez Roure, Igor Babailov, and Virgil Elliott.

References

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  1. ^ "International". Art Now Gallery Guide. 23: 9–10. May 2004.
  2. ^ Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. Vol. 12, 13. Arizona State University. 2003. p. 98.
  3. ^ a b c Elkins, James (2013). "The Importance of Skill". Master Narratives and their Discontents. Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-135-87257-1.
  4. ^ "MAG Collection - 404 Page Not Found". magart.rochester.edu. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2020. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. ^ Allan, Scott C. (Autumn 2011). "Review of William Bouguereau by Damien Bartoli, with Frederick C. Ross". Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 10 (2).
  6. ^ Birkenmeyer, Seth (2 January 2018). ""Living Artist": Williamsburg Art Gallery owner earns national recognition". The Virginia Gazette. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  7. ^ a b c Roth, Mark (20 August 2007). "Gifted artist? Bouguereau's work controversial more than a century after his death". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  8. ^ Kresser, Katie (2017). The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Picturing Authenticity in Gilded Age America. Routledge. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-351-54646-1.
  9. ^ "Education". www.artrenewal.org.
  10. ^ Kralik, Brandon (4 January 2016). "The ARC Live Salon!". HuffPost.
  11. ^ Grigorian, Natasha (19 May 2009). European Symbolism: In Search of Myth (1860-1910). Peter Lang. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-03911-531-0 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Sandell, Scott (13 December 2008). "Napoleon and the Sphinx". latimesblogs.latimes.com.

Further reading

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