Art Educator Larry Gluck Dispells Myth of Inborn Talent

Glendale, CA, February 09, 2008 --(PR.com)-- 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 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 establishment." I wanted 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 regular 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 and sketching techniques in pastel, charcoal and watercolor. The curriculum officially known as The Gluck Method, proceeds to introduce more sophisticated 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 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. Learning how to draw and paint 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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Jasmin Zimmatore
(818) 521-3807
jasmin@ezpublicrelations.com
www.thegluckmethod.com