Gerald F. Metcalfe (1894-1929),
Pan, Oil on canvas
My friend Rob Walker writes a great column every Friday on Yahoo Tech called
The New Old Thing,
which "tells you about what’s not-new—but still great and available to
you right now thanks to the magic of technology." His latest column is
about my recommendation, The Art Renewal Center.
The Art Renewal Center bills itself as “leading the
revival of realism in the fine arts,” and it’s fair to say that founder
Fred Ross has a passionate point of view about the value of realism and
modernist efforts (in his view) to denigrate it.
“Before visiting Artrenewal.org for the first time (about 10
years ago),” Frauenfelder says, “I’d never heard of William Bouguereau,
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John William Waterhouse, Lord Frederic
Leighton, Ernest Louis Meissonier, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Frank
Dicksee, James Joseph Tissot, or John William Godward.
“Looking at their work makes me feel like I’ve entered a secret
museum that was closed off to the public for fear of a mass outbreak of
Stendhal syndrome.”
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