Ted Seth Jacobs
Ted Seth Jacobs’ artistic career has spanned more than five decades. Born in 1927, he began teaching at the age of eighteen, as an occasional substitute for his Art Students League instructor. At age fifteen Ted Seth Jacobs won first prize in a nationwide contest for high school art. The author began exhibiting in New York galleries in 1952 and in 1952, he won first prize in the nationwide Stacey scholarship contest. Since then, he has had over seventy one-man exhibitions in America and in France, where he continues to exhibit. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, and received hundreds of portrait painting and drawing commissions, as well as a large number of commissions...
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These principles are the artist guide to drawing the human form and were developed to guide the artist into mastering the human body in their own work. They include: Universality of Structure – Every body has the same basic structure Unity & Complexity – Every body has to move as unit in a fluid motion, yet there are so many structures it is complex. Continuity – Vital forces inside body that have to flow without interruption. Certain shapes facilitate this fluidity and others block it. Perspective Effect – How things would look if they were blocks and tilted in space Tapering – All body structures are to some degree tapered so they fit together...
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Jeff Hayes commented about him as a teacher in this 2005 post: Although he has a very kindly and unassuming manner, I was immediately thunderstruck by both the depth and breadth of the knowledge and insight be brings to bear on the practice of painting and drawing. In the space of just a few sentences, he would touch on physics, anatomy, geometry, optics, engineering, art history, pedogogy, physiology, materials, perception, oh, and philosophy to boot. And these were not the abstracted mental meanderings of a scattered intellectual. Rather, all his comments had direct relevance to the subject at hand, which is to say aspects of drawing the human body. It was really a virtuoso performance,...
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