Larry Gluck's Page

2001 Artists for A Better World International
"LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT" Awardee

Larry Gluck


"For a lifetime of dedication towards the creation of a better world through aesthetics. For elevating the understanding and importance of the arts within our culture."

Perhaps no one has enabled so many to acquire artistic talent as has Larry Gluck. His breakthroughs in fine art training have led to success and artistic fulfillment for countless thousands of all ages and from all walks of life.

Larry pioneered the first complete step-by-step fine art program, isolating and codifying the principles of drawing and painting. Through the course of his teaching, he came across many a student who had attended art school, but who had graduated with gaping holes in their art education. It became all too evident that art institutions had abandoned traditional principles—the same principles that were the backbone of the Renaissance, the very same principles taught to the great masters throughout history.

Larry dedicated himself to unearthing and imparting this lost knowledge, but accomplished something more—something unprecedented in the history of art education. Using his revolutionary method, not only did students with natural talent succeed, but students who considered themselves devoid of any talent were equally successful and became competent artists. Perhaps that one unique factor made Mission: Renaissance what it is today: the largest fine art program in the world.

Any artist worthy of note passes on his hard-won wisdom to an apprentice or two, but in the case of Larry Gluck, thanks to all he has set forth, his apprentices truly number in the tens of thousands. A once forbidden world is now open to all—a world where anyone is free to create and express themselves, to celebrate the glory and beauty of life through art.