Artist Ed Copley Designated Living Master - Copley Joins the Elite Group of Living Artists Shown in the ARC Museum
“His work now appears on our ARC Living Masters Gallery on our website as does the work of his Grandfather, John Singleton Copley. Although their work is clearly from two different time periods, it is always a pleasure to see that the artistic quality in the family remained fully intact. Ed is a wonderful addition to the ARC family and we are looking forward to his newest works and exhibitions.”
– Kara Lysandra Ross, Director of Operations for the Art Renewal Center.
(Scottsdale, AZ – April 26, 2012) - Ed Copley, considered a Master artist whose work is collected around the globe, is now recognized as a Living Master, a very elite award from The Art Renewal Center. But the genes of artistic genius that make Ed Copley (www.edcopleyfineart.com) one of world’s finest painters are more than just heredity. Known as a modern-day old master, Copley paints with an ‘old master’ technique - mixing his own paints, adding glazes, stretching his own canvas and even carving a frame for that special masterpiece. As for Ed Copley’s artistic genes, John Singleton Copley (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=713) was the greatest American painter of the 18th century. His great, great, great grandson Ed Copley exquisitely follows in those footsteps in the 21st century.
Ed Copley Gallery at the Art Renewal Center: http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=7399
“I am very pleased that our esteemed judges saw fit to give Ed the title of ARC Associate Living Master™ and welcome him to the elite group of living artists shown in the ARC Museum. The process for acceptance into the ARC Living Artist and Master's Gallery ™ is a rigorous one, where an artist’s work must be reviewed by a panel of at least four Judges who consist of well published art scholars and master instructors whose presage is undeniable,” said Kara Lysandra Ross, Director of Operations for the Art Renewal Center.
Ross continues, “His work now appears on our website as does the work of his Grandfather, John Singleton Copley. Although their work is clearly from two different time periods, it is always a pleasure to see that the artistic quality in the family remained fully intact. Ed is a wonderful addition to the ARC family and we are looking forward to his newest works and exhibitions.”
With a classical attention to composition, meticulous attention to his use of light and devotion to the Old World application and mixing of his own pigments, Copley paintings are masterpieces. He also uses a glazing technique which develops richness in detail and color without the use of heavy applications of paint. But because it is such a slow process, few artists choose to use it at the present time. Ten feature videos on Ed Copley are here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71146C43A5728612
Copley explains his “old world” technique.
“If you have ever stood in awe in front of a great painting and wondered how on earth they created it then you can understand why restoration work can be so challenging,” Copley said. "Answers to the mystery of how they painted came via my work in the restoration and conservation of old paintings. Art restoration is a highly specialized field that requires several unrelated skills from its practitioners. Those who excel in art restoration are combination scientist, historian, artist and exceptionally talented craftsman all rolled into one.”
Copley also uses copper as a canvas. Painting on copper was popular from the mid-sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. Masters from Europe to South America, including Rembrandt to El Greco, found copper to be an intriguing surface on which to paint, but the techniques used to paint on copper were guarded by these masters and many consider it a lost art. Copley uses the color, reflectiveness and luminosity of the copper as an integral part of the palette. The paintings often feature 80-120 coats of paint to achieve the depth of a Copley copper masterpiece.
NEXT for Ed Copley – The Legend of Hiawatha is a traveling museum exhibition complete with a beautifully illustrated book. The show will premiere in 2013. Images are attached.
About Ed Copley
Working from his studio in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ed is a man of many visions. He is equally as comfortable painting a landscape of the Sonoran Desert with its majestic saguaro cacti piercing a storm tossed summer sky, a Tarahumara Indian woman with a weathered face, or a classical image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. No matter what the subject, he portrays it with realistic depth and brilliance, attempting only to bring it to life in a most exquisite manner. His representational style draws together many techniques dating back to the renaissance, masterful and painstaking skills that have nearly vanished.
Ed's studio calls to mind images of a European master from the 16th or 17th century. More like an atelier, replete with antique furniture and rustic walnut wooden floors, it is one in which many paintings and drawings sit on easels, as the artist busies himself going from one to the other, working simultaneously on several compositions. With a classical attention to composition, meticulous attention to his use of light and devotion to the Old World application of pigment, Ed's paintings will remain perpetually enchanting in the mind and heart of his collectors. There is no doubt that his paintings will earn their place in the contemporary history of art.
About The Art Renewal Center (ARC)
ARC is a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to the renewal of classical training and the re-appreciation of traditional art. In addition to providing the public with much needed art educational tools such as articles, artist biographies, podcasts, upcoming and current exhibition information, information on the ateliers and academy schools where proper training can still be found, and hosting the largest online museum dedicated to traditional painting, we hold two prestigious competitions for living artists who paint in the realist tradition. The International ARC Salon was created to recapture the excitement of the famous Paris Salons of the 19th Century where all the greatest artists would compete, and our Scholarship Competition was formed to aid talented and aspiring artists get the proper training. In scholarship funds alone we have awarded nearly $200,0000 to date. We have seen our viewership soar to 5,000,000 yearly visitors and expect that number to grow as more and more people rediscover the beauty and importance of not only the art of the forgotten masters of the 19th century and before, but also our innovative Contemporary Realist artists, who have taken the lessons of their forefathers to advance art into a new frontier.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
Ed Copley has an Online Press Room ( http://www.cisionwire.com/copley ) with high resolution images, HD video and more. We have excellent B-Roll footage for television interviews of Copley painting at the Timken Museum in San Diego as he completes his own masterpiece of his grandfather’s masterwork Mrs. Thomas Gage, the centerpiece of the Timken Museum’s collection.
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Ed Copley - A Modern Day Old Master - http://EdCopleyFineArt.com
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