Sentence examples for abandoning art from inspiring English sources

Abandoning art school, he moved to New York in 1972.

Unable to show or sell his paintings, he considered abandoning art altogether and concentrating on his career as an internist.

Savvy operators, they played studio against studio, staking their fortunes on pictures that served commerce without wholly abandoning art.

Stanley Brouwn, the footstep-counting Dutchman, and Charlotte Posenenske, a German who shot hypnotically monotonous films from a moving car before abandoning art for sociology, at the age of thirty-eight, register wanly.

A writer heads off to Hollywood, gets rich and then, with his career secure, avenges himself on his employers by charging them with abandoning art and truth (except, perhaps, in their decision to hire him, which were left to infer was their last enlightened act before they gave themselves over to full decline).

Tired with the art world and having given up painting altogether in his mid-20s, the artist upset his friends by abandoning art for chess for much of the 1920s and 30s, eventually becoming a chess master and a member of the French team for the Chess Olympics, competing in international tournaments.

Over the next two decades Crawford Seeger, abandoning art-music composition, became a passionate and meticulous transcriber of American folk music, producing numerous songbooks.

No longer able to provide all the "perks" of a liberal arts education, our public schools are abandoning arts education, starting with music.

Museums abandon art at their peril.

When he abandons art to enter medical school, it is with a sense of relief.

The interior shots of The Grand Budapest Hotel were filmed in Görlitzer Warenhaus, an abandoned Art Nouveau department store.