Not exact matches
DESPITE the many scientific and artistic geniuses in their ranks — among them Galileo, Kepler, Darwin, Joyce and Dali —
eccentrics had never been subjected to scientific study until David Weeks
began his
work.
When: June 19th Why: Mark Ruffalo is hands - down one of the best actors
working today, but while he's earned great reviews for his performance in writer Maya Forbes» directorial debut, his character feels a little too close to the
eccentric fathers he's played over the past few years, especially in fellow indies like «The Kids Are All Right» and «
Begin Again.»
Her debut book Shop Girl Diaries
began as a blog about
working in her Mum's
eccentric chandelier shop.
The European side
begins with
works by two artists not widely appreciated today: Puvis de Chavannes, the
eccentric classicist then much admired by avant - gardists, and a big, strange, multifigured allegorical scene by the British painter Augustus John.
Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's
work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword
begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and
eccentric par excellence.»
Charles Saatchi, whose
eccentric, New York - style hobby was collecting contemporary art,
began to buy their
work and show it at his gallery in an old paint factory in north London.