Art Educator Larry Gluck Challenges Myth of Innate Artistic Abilities

Feb. 7, 2008 - PRLog -- Jasmin Zimmatore
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Los Angeles, California - The confession “I Can’t Draw a Straight Line” is progressively

becoming ancient history, according to educator and fine artist Larry Gluck, Founder of

Mission: Renaissance Fine Art Studios. His art studios in Los Angeles and Orange

County areas teach children and adults the lost principles of fine art while developing

talent in those previously deemed “untalented.”  


Larry Gluck’s mission of teaching how to draw continues to succeed in spite of political

views who consider art education a frill as witnessed by the decline in Federal funding

at the National Endowment for the Arts whose appropriations have been declining

steadily from 176 million in 1992 to 124 million in 2006.  And let’s not forget a

hearing with witnesses Lynne Cheney and William Bennett who called for the outright

elimination of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment

for the Humanities after a shark was cut into pieces and put on display at a NYC art

gallery.


So what is an independent art educator to do?


“Early on I decided to bypass the “art world”.  My goal is to help people and bring sanity

into the subject.  And the only way I could do that was to go directly to the people.  The

arts have been barred for centuries and left to a select few, yet there is no other place

for a person to go and pursue excellence. The goal of Mission: Renaissance is a

personal renaissance for everyone.”


The program starts by teaching children four and up drawing techniques in pastel,

charcoal and watercolor.  The curriculum officially known as The Gluck

Method, proceeds to introduce more sophisticated sketching and oil painting

techniques.  Students learn to paint using still lifes to then move on to reproduce works

by Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh and many other master artists while listening to

beautiful classical music.


“Anyone can learn to draw and paint, and do it well.  All is needed is the right

information presented in the right sequence. Drawing and painting is a far more

rewarding activity for children to get involved in,  it certainly beats video games and the

violence they are exposed to on TV almost on a daily basis.” Larry Gluck says.  


Today Mission: Renaissance is the last outpost for learning traditional fine art skills

using a method that dispels broadly accepted  theories like “Drawing from the Right

Side of The Brain,” a theory Gluck considers an artistic “dead end” as it does not

provide rock bottom fundamentals for a student to build upon.  


Group Demonstrations of The Gluck Method at Mission: Renaissance available upon

request.

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