Sentences with phrase «of autodidacts»

It is not by chance that many of the autodidacts fascinated the canonical modernist artists with their paintings and sculptures, who often publically supported them.

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.

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

But,,, your familiarity with much of the leading knowledge suggest that you are something of an autodidact which can only be a very good example.

A bit of an autodidact.

Kind, less judgmental then most, a bit of an autodidact, a good snuggler, an pokemon master:-P, geeky, and a decent listener.

Rivers, always a veracious reader, was something of an autodidact.

Growing up, I was something of an autodidact and a bit of a polymath though I did get a degree specializing in literature finally.

Not exact matches

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I grant you that Rand, an autodidact Russian émigré (the daughter of a commercial family whose property was confiscated by the Soviets, and an anticommunist intellectual who fell in love with America) was indeed an atheist.

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.

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.

Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.

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.

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.

She calls herself an autodidact: «That word is one of the things I self - taught myself.»

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.

At least every other line is a winner here; there's probably no denser accumulation of quotables in any other movie this year («Do you know what an autodidact is?

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.

The book I'm picking I haven't read in awhile, but it's one of my favorites, called The Day I became an Autodidact by Kendall Hailey.

«This kind of nature suited an autodidact with eclectic tastes, empowering him either to obsess impatiently about a pressing problem that had to be dealt with immediately — much like an engineer — or else to let an idea steep and incubate until he got it right.»

Also we should not exclude the impact that John Ruskin, also an autodidact and polymath, had on artists of that time.

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.

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.»

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.

They become autodidacts of a dozen different orders, teaching themselves everything from agriculture to medicine.

The autodidact Guston gained a foothold in New York's art scene in the 1950s and became one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expression around Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko.

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.

An autodidact, Flavin studied history of art and had very little formal education in painting.

Such a pitiful social - media plea would have been unthinkable in Painter's prime, when 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.

A provocateur and autodidact, Smithson was fascinated by concepts of duality and entropy.

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

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.