Sentences with phrase «as autodidacts»

A possibly bright outcome of MOOC - ifying every last course on this planet could be actuating the human race to evolve as autodidacts or self - learners.

I guess he figgered he was adequately qualified as an autodidact.

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As is common with autodidacts, he frequently popped off on questions about which he had no conspicuous knowledge.

I am writing this as a confessed autodidact.

And yet, probably because he came of age in a video store and has never quite lost the autodidact's air of bullish authority, some high - minded critics and cultural arbiters can't bring themselves to take him seriously as an intellectual.

David Thewlis as the furious, self - hating, seductive autodidact in Naked (1993), Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean - Baptiste as the unlikely mother and daughter in Secrets & Lies (1996), and Imelda Staunton as the empathetic illegal abortionist in Vera Drake (2004) come immediately to mind, but they are only a handful among many others, including at least a half dozen of the characters in Topsy - Turvy.

As the two cagily approach their first time as man and wife together, director Dominic Cooke cuts between the past and present, to show how the bucolic autodidact and blues fan Edward came to meet the sophisticated Florence, a middle - class violinist with a classical string quarteAs the two cagily approach their first time as man and wife together, director Dominic Cooke cuts between the past and present, to show how the bucolic autodidact and blues fan Edward came to meet the sophisticated Florence, a middle - class violinist with a classical string quarteas man and wife together, director Dominic Cooke cuts between the past and present, to show how the bucolic autodidact and blues fan Edward came to meet the sophisticated Florence, a middle - class violinist with a classical string quartet.

He was based on a drop - out know - it - all autodidact named W.J.M. Bottle, who was billed in vaudeville as Datas, The Memory Man.

Originally trained as a botanist, Babajide Olatunji is a visual artist and autodidact, having spent many years of self - directed study researching art historical movements and modes of production.

Carried by a youthful curiosity and an autodidact's sensibility, through an extensive body of work Shore has illuminated the wondrous «how» a picture is made as much as the «what» being taken.

The forms the work takes include performances, installations, videos, and publications, which deliberately contrast an authoritative and didactic mode of presentation with non-establishment voices such as that of the amateur historian or autodidact.

«We should probably see Furlong as a peculiarly English autodidact figure scrupulously orchestrating a record of the international art world over the last 40 years... We begin with a bang, with Marcel Duchamp -LSB-...] his spiky presence as a provocateur and dandy exactly preserved... Some of the earliest interviewees, such as John Cage, Tadeusz Kantor and Philip Glass, suggest a programme accommodating figures on the margins of a traditional definition of a visual arts discourse.

The exhibition Outliers and American Vanguard Art, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, aims to reconsider the ubiquitous but limited «Outsider» designation as an umbrella term for autodidact artists.

A consistent source of formal and iconographic inspiration to academically trained, historically engaged artists throughout the twentieth century (from Paul Klee to Max Ernst to Julian Schnabel), talented autodidacts like Czech artist Anna Zemánková (1908 — 86) have too often been discussed using a pseudo-critical vocabulary (such as «compulsive visionaries,» coined by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992) that reads more like a diagnosis than an appraisal.

In this body of work, the artist used drawing as a means of furthering the art of his epoch — Gorky was a talented autodidact, honing his technique by spending hours in New York City's museums and voraciously reading in libraries.

As a young autodidact, Axel Kasseböhmer could have been a cousin of the bright kid slipping out of class in François Truffaut's semi-autobiographical film, The 400 Blows (1959).

The monumental level of Dunning - Kruger it takes to believe that a self - published submission by an autodidact stands up to the peer - reviewed work of world - renowned experts, as you believe your paper stands up to some half - dozen different well - established documents, does your case in entirely.