Sentence examples for taught figure from inspiring English sources

He taught figure drawing at Yale until his retirement in 1989, and from 1969 to 1974 was the director of studies for the graduate painting program.

White taught figure drawing at the Baggage Building Arts Centre, where he taught how to capture the naked human form with charcoal on newsprint paper.

She worried that she might have to earn money by teaching figure skating, as she had done on and off since high school.

Like many others, I've drawn and painted the human figure all my life, and I'm just one of the countless artists who teach figure painting and drawing as a fountainhead for personal expression.

Jak Kovatch, who teaches figure drawing, told of a model from his days as an art student in Los Angeles who believed he was the reincarnation of one of Michelangelo's models.

I employ Jay-Z for his abundant usage of metaphor, allusion, and hyperbole to teach figures of speech.

I was taught to figure it out for myself, and I did most of the time.

For a dozen years I taught advanced figure painting in the foundation department of one of the biggest and most respected art schools in the country.

In the more modern style, Matisse taught basic figure drawing rather than how to work in the same style as himself.

Having decided early to become an artist, Howard studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto from 1948 to 1951, where she was a pupil of Will Ogilvie, who taught her figure drawing, and Jock Macdonald, who taught her painting and composition.

Ashrams are often associated with a central teaching figure, a guru, who is the object of adulation by the residents of the ashram.