A handful of affecting works can actually be seen in a small, eclectic exhibition located literally steps above the ARC Salon, on the second floor of the Salmagundi. Still, I had hoped to see a better selection compared to other paintings I have seen in recent years. Awarded honorable mention at the 12th International ARC Salon at the Salmagundi Club in New York, on May 12, 2017. Yet looking at the works on display in the Salmagundi gallery and parlor, I only found a couple of paintings that really gave me “chills up and down my spine,” as Ross had prompted me to anticipate. He was spot on when he said, “It may be the rare work that accomplishes this.” Several people at the opening on May 13 were highly impressed by ARC Salon, declaring the entire exhibition “Fabulous!” A Salmagundi member said he wished all exhibitions at the club could be of such high quality. At the press preview, Ross eloquently pointed out, “Fine art at its best has the power to move one to tears, or grab your sensibilities and rivet you in the moment with an overwhelming sense of beauty and excitement.” Discerning Artistryįrederick Ross is an art collector and leading authority on the 19th-century artist William Bouguereau. While the number of entries is much larger and its international scope much broader than any of the 18th- or 19th-century salons of Europe, ARC Salon has yet to have the status that it aspires to reach-not only in terms of being recognized for the quality of the work it champions, but more importantly in becoming fully embedded in mainstream culture. This year alone, we had a 25 percent increase,” said Kara Lysandra Ross, ARC director of operations, at the press preview.įrederick Ross, founder and chairman of Art Renewal Center (ARC), and his daughter, Kara Lysandra Ross, director of operations of ARC, at the press preview of the 12th International ARC Salon exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York, on May 12, 2017. “Since 2010, we have experienced double-digit growth each year to the number of entries submitted.
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The parlor and main gallery of the Salmagundi Club is packed full with paintings hanging side by side, carefully labeled according to award and category, including best figurative, portraiture, imaginative realism, social commentary, landscape, still life, trompe l’oeil, drawing, sculpture, and more. The educational foundation has been a leading force in reviving realism in the visual arts since it was founded in 1999.Ī board of 11 judges-including museum directors, art historians, magazine editors and publishers, academy and atelier founders, and distinguished artists-selected 82 works out of 3,100 entries from 63 countries. “After more than a hundred years of modernism’s fascination with the flatness of the canvas and ideas like form or color for their own sake, a growing number of artists, scholars, as well as the public have grown bored with these limited parameters of the definition of contemporary art,” said Frederick Ross, founder and chairman of the ARC, at a press preview on May 12. While it also displays works to be sold, its main aspiration is to uphold excellence in visual representation along the lines of the Paris Salons and Royal Academy of Arts exhibitions. In contrast to the fairs that highlight celebrity status and sales (such as the Venice Biennale in Italy, Frieze in New York, Art Basel in Miami, and so on), ARC Salon is an art competition on a grand scale. The 12th annual international salon of the Art Renewal Center ( ARC) can be seen in its entirety online. NEW YORK-The most prominent realist art competition, and the only one of its kind, the ARC Salon opened its exhibition to the public at the Salmagundi Club on May 13.