I have been conspicuously absent from the forum lately but this thread drew me in. Then as I read them all I found many intelligent posts with varied opinions.
I could not help but think that I have heard this all before as well as been known for similar statements that come down on both sides of the fence. I love Impressionist work. I also feel that the accomplishments of the academic artists, many featured at ARC, has been dismissed all to often as boring.
The ARC school of thought is a backlash to the modernist movement that grouped all realism as trite or pass
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