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Jasmin Zimmatore
(818) 521-3807
jasmin@ezpublicrelations.com
www.thegluckmethod.com
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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