Sentences with word «autodidact»

This exhibition goes on from there to span two decades of work that weaves together personal and political narratives; reflects Barrada's ongoing research into displacement and dislocation, modes of education, and forms of abstraction; and embraces the resistance and strategies of autodidacts.

I've always joked that my overriding educational objective was to produce autodidacts who did their own laundry, and we're getting there... In the past I've kept a detailed blog recording our activities and hashing out issues of philosophy and pedagogy.

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.

Self - directed autodidact with multiple talents, sharp intellect, insight and intuition, bursting with creativity and ideas.

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.

Michael Slenske writes, «in Painter's prime, -LSB-...] he lorded over the L.A. scene like the bastard son of P. T. Barnum and Suge Knight, a street - styled autodidact art savant who was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.»

ArtSpace / Virginia Miller Galleries is pleased to announce representation of Renato Meziat, a Brazilian autodidact whose hyperrealistic still lifes and figurative paintings have been exhibited since 1979 in such leading venues in Brazil and the United States as Hammer Galleries in New York City and Galeria Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro.

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.

He was a fierce autodidact and a wicked bridge player; he survived the 1929 stock market crash because he didn't believe in leverage.

Indeed, if you had to «place» Williams — put him alongside writers with whom he had something in common — it would be with the mystical autodidacts, the backstreet Rosicrucians more than with the pipe - smoking, tweedy Inklings.

For many Evangelicals, Schaeffer, an astonishing autodidact, made accessible a large part of the history of Western thought construed according to his distinctive Christian vision.

I am writing this as a confessed autodidact.

Successful autodidact and author Ray Bradbury died Tuesday night.

Philip Yancey is the special guest, along with recording artist Jon Brooks, and you don't want to miss all the other Drew Marshall «autodidact iconoclast» antics.

The religious autodidact, on the other hand, stands on the sidewalk.

The fate of most autodidacts, a fate I happen to understand only too well, is to be perpetually reinventing the wheel and, in the course of that needless reinvention, never to achieve the wing, the propeller or the time machine.

Some will object that you don't need to belong to an organized religion in order to avoid the fate of the spiritual autodidact.

Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.

Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian autodidact, invented a way to transmit voice and music by altering the intensity of waves — called amplitude modulation — thus creating AM radio.

Based on the writings and watercolors of 16th - century Dutch beachcomber and autodidact Adriaen Coenen, it reproduces, with lively commentary, what are probably the world's oldest manuscripts on European whales and marine animals.

Though Jeremiah is far from the typical Princeton applicant, he's a prodigy and self - proclaimed autodidact who wants nothing more than to attend the university.

Larsen is an egghead fascist and brutal autodidact who's going blind and crazy as he toys with his crew and his passengers (John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Barry Fitzgerald and Alexander Knox).

Nine years ago, autodidact filmmaker Shane Carruth burst onto the indie scene with the abstruse and complex sci - fi thriller «Primer,» which made him a Sundance darling in 2004 when it won the Grand Jury Prize and went on to become a cult hit.

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 quartet.

Autodidact billionaires with big ideas are an even bigger comedown than manufactured celebrities.

Steve is a perpetual autodidact with (if it matters) advanced degrees from an reputable art school and respected state university.

Such is the haecciety of celebrated autodidact Bill Traylor (c.1854 - 1949).

• Head back to the Auditorium for the last Frieze Talk of the this year's fair at 4 pm: «Curator: Autodidact Polymath or Academic Expert?»

«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.

O'Brien's varied practice references both Modernist masters and 20th century autodidacts.

The vibrant photographs of traffic signs, run - down buildings and diner interiors distinctly betray the hand of the wayward autodidact.

One of his points of reference in European art was the work of a fellow autodidact, the Douanier Rousseau.

Kasper, a talkative musical autodidact, has filled the space with furniture, instruments and art supplies from her own studio in the Bronx, and is inviting neighbouring artists and strangers she meets to collaborate, perform at open mic sessions or simply sit and chat.

Mark Leckey is a British artist, pop - culture provocational agent, and self - described autodidact working across sculpture, sound, film, and performance.

Seliger was able to maintain his own vision in the midst of those around him because he is a classic autodidact.

A voracious autodidact, by 1980, at 22 - years of age, Basquiat began to direct his extraordinary talent towards painting and drawing.

Like two other notable autodidacts, Jasper Johns and Robert Ryman, Seliger did what most artists find impossible - he invented his own occasion.

Only a supremely confident autodidact could have pulled off such an unlikely and ultimately subversive synthesis.

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).

A necessary revisionist text that uncovers the importance of Henry Rousseau, Alfred Wallis and their early autodidact colleagues

Will we all become autodidacts?

Nick Frank is a 38 - year - old autodidact, who has been teaching himself how to take pictures since 2010.

Unlike Day, whose mosaic - like collages create an overall impression, Renato Meziat, a Brazilian autodidact, paints still lifes and figurative canvases so realistic one can almost reach out and touch their flowers, glassware and models.

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.

His wide - ranging curiosity never found its academic niche, and his ideas on the history of science remained those of autodidact and outsider.