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What I find most commendable is the work developed by the Art Renewal Center (ARC) especially in connection with the promotion of mainly great figurative artists whether of the Romantic, the Academic, the NeoClassical, and so on schools. At a time when I was being both attracted and also on occasion repelled by non-figurative artists who pretended to belong to the surrealist, expressionist, and abstract, etc, trends, some of them not even able to paint a face that did not seem the work of a bad cartoonist or a worse graffiter, I discovered this trove of real artists who put beauty, expression, proportion, color, composition and, above all, hard work above any other cheap consideration. And it was thanks to mainly the ARC but also the Artcyclopedia, the Artchive, the Atheneum, the CGFA, etc. websites.
Miguel
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