Image Behind the Mirror
By Alan Merris Bell
The Genre Art Advocacy Center is a private organization that advocates and promotes the modern expression of the historically significant production of Fine Art. GA2C organizes exhibits of relevant, important works of art being produced by today's living masters and by emerging artists who show promise of productive carriers. Our main emphasis is on modern realism which includes the classical to the modern. We also focus on the new media that is involved with creating new expressions with pixels instead of brushes.

As the name implies, Genre will also be an advocate for the arts. We believe that artistic expression is as important to a democracy as political speech. So did the founders and so do the courts. We uphold an artist's right not be censored from public, tax funded exhibits as long as the subject is within current court rulings. We do not support displays of pornography, gratuitous violence, amateurish works or works that fail to demonstrate technical standards of quality, conservancy and archival requirements.

Genre is developing online resources to catalog and display historical and current material related to our main objective.

Genre will host exhibits of realist art from from both masters and emerging artists. We support the sale of original works that establish value and provenance for the artist. We also have an acquisition policy that is designed to gather significant works for a Realist museum.

Genre works with and supports other organizations with which we share common goals and beliefs. We are exclusionary only in the genre of art we have chosen to support.
Flaming June
Lord Frederic Leighton
Solitude (below)

From the dawn of man, we have been recording the things most essential to us, to our well being and survival with images. From the caves of Lascaux to the walls of Minos, the temples of Egypt to the Parthenon expressions in paint, plaster and stone have defined our species as distinct in nature. Art illuminates our thoughts and makes real our vision. At the center of art, capturing the reality of the subject has resulted in amazing masterpieces that rise above the mundane, brutal struggle for existence.

At the center of this expression has always been beauty. Whether it lay in the animals we hunted or the activities we pursued or the human form, beauty was the element that set apart Art from other human endeavors.

Today, a return to our realistic sensibilities is recognized as a seeking for our true position in the universe. Non objective art represented man's belief he was master over nature and himself. World wars and collapsing ecosystems have demonstrated that man is master over nothing and brutish in behavior. A bankrupt belief in self led to a bankrupt expression that destroyed all resistance as surely as any tyrant. But like all tyrants, modernism fell and in the void left behind, the true inheritors moved out of obscurity and into the light. They are the descendants of thousands of years of creative effort. They are the artists that bring hard won talent, technique and beauty back into the world.

They are the realists.


Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
sculpture from [Hage?]andros of Antioch,
son of Menides, 130 - 100 BC,
marble 2.04 m. Louvre Paris, France



Stretching Out the Morning
Steve Hanks



15,000 year old cave paintings at Lascaux France

Minoan Boxers, 1500 BCE