Art Renewal Center
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| Founded | 2000 |
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| Method | ARC Salon Competition, ARC International Scholarship |
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Key people
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Fred Ross, Brian Yoder |
| Website | artrenewal.org |
The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is an organization led by New Jersey businessman, and art collector Fred Ross that is dedicated to the promotion 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. 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, www.artrenewal.org. 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. 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.
The foundation largely supports the Contemporary 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.
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. 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.
The web site examines values of art with articles, messages, and a detailed statement by Fred Ross, the foundation chairman. It is a campaigning site that is harshly critical of most modern art and, equally fervent about prior art. 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. Particular emphasis is given to the work of French nineteenth-century 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.
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