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Gary Faigin is an American artist, author, co-founder and Artistic Director of the Gage Academy of Art, Seattle.〔(Graves, Jen: "A Dickens of a Character",The Stranger Slog, 4/27/07 )〕 ==Life== Gary Faigin was born on September 17, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were both teachers. As a college student during the Vietnam War, Faigin dropped out of the Residential College at the University of Michigan to travel to San Francisco to participate in the communal movement, at its high point in the early 1970s. In 1976, determined to train as a realist artist, he hitchhiked from the West Coast to New York City specifically to study with famed anatomist, Robert Beverly Hale, at the Art Students League of New York. He remained a student at the League for 4 years, focusing on figure drawing, anatomy, and perspective. In addition, he pursued art studies part-time at the National Academy of Design, School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. In 1979, Faigin travelled to Paris where he spent a year studying at the famed École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He currently resides in Seattle with his wife Pamela Belyea (m. 1976) and two children (b. 1991 and 1996). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary Faigin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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