Artwork Requirements 

Date of Last Revision: 4 November 2025

1. Purpose

1.1 Losget Academy is dedicated to identifying and recognizing the most vital hand-painting masters of our time—artists whose works possess enduring artistic life and are worthy of historical record.

2. Personal Information

2.1 Losget Academy does not collect personal data such as nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, education, profession, title, or prior achievements.
2.2 No personal information is required when submitting works. Only after confirmation of Master Membership shall the following information be registered:

 2.2.1 Public Information:
 a. Current city of residence (including country to avoid confusion; this country reference indicates geographic location rather than nationality);
 b. Preferred artistic name and legal name;
 c. In cases where two members share the same name in the same city, additional identifying information may be requested;
 d. City of residence and one portrait image or portrait painting (of any period). 

 2.2.2 Non-Public Information:
 a. Minor status (whether the member is a minor at the time of registration);
 b. A PayPal account for receiving royalty, donation, or artwork-sale payments and similar transfers; this information remains confidential. (For minors, the legal guardian’s PayPal account shall be used.)

3. Evaluation Principle

3.1 Primary principle. The sole decisive basis for determining Master Membership is the quality of the artwork itself.

3.2 Secondary principle. The Academy also considers the relevance of participation in the Art Ark 500 Program to the candidate’s artistic development. 

4. Submission Requirements

4.1 Form of submission. For purposes of submission, “works” shall be provided as digital photographs of the artworks. Each image must: (a) be sharp and properly exposed; (b) provide reasonable color fidelity; (c) have a file size of at least 1 MB; and (d) capture the entire painted surface with all edges visible. The Academy may crop ancillary background as needed. Full-edge capture is required to support authenticity verification and to assess potential lens/perspective distortion.

4.2 Initial eligibility. Eligibility for Master Membership is established only upon the acceptance of at least two artworks into the publication inventory.

4.3 Annual submission requirement. For each membership year, and as a condition for renewal candidacy, the member must have at least two new artworks—distinct from those previously published—accepted into the publication inventory for the following year. 

4.4 Voluntary additional submissions. Beyond the required two artworks per membership year, all further submissions are voluntary; the Academy does not solicit additional artwork submissions.

4.5 Selection and utilization of submitted works. The Academy will select qualifying artworks from the submissions for purposes such as publication, inclusion in the online gallery, or representation and sale.

4.6 Updates to identifying materials. Members may update their city of residence and their portrait photograph or painted portrait (of any period) at any time. If no updated materials are submitted, the Academy will continue to use the most recent materials on file in subsequent publications.

5. Definition of Hand-Painting

5.1 “Hand-painting” refers to the practice of creating art manually with brushes, pencils, or other traditional painting tools on a flat surface.
5.2 It excludes all forms of digital painting and does not include works produced through mechanical means, stencils, spraying, or other special techniques used to create two- or three-dimensional forms such as prints, cut-outs, reliefs, photographs, or installations.

6. Core Selection Criteria

6.1 The sole criterion by which Losget Academy evaluates “masters” is the emotional and individual expressiveness conveyed through the artist’s lines or brushstrokes, and the vitality and spiritual character embodied in the work as a whole, a quality arising from innate talent combined with long-term, consistent practice.
6.2 The Academy’s assessment does not prioritize subject matter or conceptual approach; it favors pure painting that objectively presents the visible world—such as landscape, still life, and portrait works—over narrative or ideologically driven imagery.

7. Accepted Categories

7.1 Traditional hand-painted easel works: Independently created with brushes or pencils on paper, canvas, or wood panel, forming two-dimensional works suitable for framing and display (e.g., oil, acrylic, drawing, watercolor).
7.2 Traditional hand-painted murals or ceiling paintings: Fresco or secco paintings executed entirely by the artist’s own hand (without assistants or collective execution) and without mechanical tools or methods such as spraying, stencils, or projection.

8. Non-Accepted Categories

(Examples below are illustrative but not exhaustive.)
8.1 Digital paintings, AI-generated works, design pieces, collages, or assemblages;
8.2 Decorative paintings, illustrations, comics, or cartoons;
8.3 Murals or ceiling paintings completed with assistance, collage techniques, or indirect execution;
8.4 Works using unconventional materials such as metal, colored sand, resin, ceramics, glass, or fabric;
8.5 Mixed media, installations, photography, video, NFT, sand painting, sculpture, tattoo, or body painting;
8.6 All forms of printmaking and mechanical reproduction (e.g., screen printing, etching, woodcut, lithograph);
8.7 Works created by spraying, printing, or dyeing processes;
8.8 Copies or imitations: Direct reproductions or plagiarized adaptations of existing works.
 Note: A personally reinterpreted re-painting of a public-domain work—such as Van Gogh’s re-creation of Millet—does not constitute copying, but the original artist and work title must be clearly indicated.
8.9 Highly formulaic serial production: Repetitive series produced through fixed models or style templates.
8.10 Over-polished works: Paintings so heavily refined that brushwork becomes imperceptible and the hand-made quality is lost.
8.11 Hyper-realistic works: Paintings focused solely on technical precision and photographic replication, where brushwork is virtually invisible.
8.12 Unlawful or inappropriate content: The Art Ark 500 Program adheres to the laws of all relevant jurisdictions and to fundamental human ethical standards. Accordingly, works that contain or promote illegality, hate, obscenity, or harm to minors are strictly prohibited.