Sentences with phrase «talented autodidacts»

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.