With a mission centered on the promotion and reinvigoration of representational art, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) is at the forefront of the 21st-century representational art movement. Founded as a ...

John Thomas Biggers’ The Mandolin Player is an important painting for many reasons. First, the painting is representative of the social realist movement of the ’30s and ’40s. You might know another ...

The divide between abstract and realistic art is one of the biggest misconceptions in painting. In truth, every piece of ...

As an artist, Ken Danby's work was loved more by the people than it was revered by the critics. Although his works were bought by museums, he found his best, most rewarding and lasting appeal among ...

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Making a good painting merely takes setting all the strokes in order. Put that way, it sounds easy. Realism in painting never loses its appeal for just this reason. Not because we have some mysterious ...

Early in his career, Jeremiah William McCarthy was told by a mentor, “Until you lay your hand and eye on all the objects in the collection, you can’t call yourself a curator.” When he came to The ...