For over 90 years there has been a concerted and relentless effort to disparage, denigrate and obliterate the reputations, names and brilliance of the academic artistic masters of the late 19th century. ... It is incredible how close Modernist theory, backed by an enormous network of powerful and influential art dealers, came to acquiring complete control over thousands of museums, university art departments and journalistic art criticism.[1] William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Nymphs and Satyr, 1873. Ross is a strong admirer of Bouguereau's work. In 2002 he spoke to the New York Society of Portrait Artists and described the impression made on him in the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) by Bouguereau's 8.5-foot-tall (2.6 m) painting, Nymphs and Satyr: Frozen in place, gawking with my mouth agape, cold chills careening up and down my spine, I was virtually gripped as if by a spell that had been cast. Years of undergraduate courses and another 60 credits post-graduate in art, and I had never heard [Bouguereau's] name. Who was he? Was he important? Anyone who could have done this must surely be deserving of the highest accolades in the art world.[1] Images on the ARC site include many works of Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Romantic and French Academic art. It includes some Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Édouard Manet, but other than Vincent Van Gogh, it does not include any of the Post-impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin or Paul Cézanne, nor any other Modernist school except the Surrealism exemplified by Salvador Dalí and Yves Tanguy. The group is critical of much twentieth-century art, arguing that it demonstrates weak technique and conveys ideas ineffectually, if at all, and focuses on false, obscure, or trivial subject matter, in addition to being weird for weirdness' sake. Exceptions include such twentieth-century artists as Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, and a number of contemporary realist painters featured in its Living Masters List. India free classifieds Buy and sell, it's 100% free: Apartments, jobs, cars, anything! www.olx.in