Sentences with phrase «century autodidacts»
O'Brien's varied practice references both Modernist masters and 20th century autodidacts.
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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.
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.