Word: self-taught
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...Christendom's greatest monuments-St. Peter's in Rome-is never quite completed. Among the best present-day artists working to finish it is a self-taught, 45-year-old sculptor from Milan named Giacomo Manzù. Four years ago, Manzù won a competition to do bronze bas-reliefs for the "Doorway of Death" (opened only for funerals) at one side of the Basilica. Now his scale study is at last complete (see cut), and he hopes that by devoting all his working time to the project he will have the doors themselves done in two more...
...early greats of American painting-such men as John Copley, Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West-were influenced chiefly by British masters. But with the winning of independence, Americans found new confidence in home talent. Untrained artists began proudly advertising themselves as "self-taught," and for the next century native portraitists, landscapists and genre painters did a brisk business. They were simple, humble men, who seldom signed their work. Many hit the road each spring, offering their services at farmhouses from Maine to Georgia...
...Eakins was a force, George Inness was just a gentle spirit. Epileptic and almost entirely self-taught, he lived in the shadow of such showy Hudson River school painters as Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. Inness preferred for subject matter the limited, charming sort of view that his studio window in Montclair, N.J. commanded. His wish, he said, was to paint not the melodramatic panoramas then in fashion, but "civilized landscape." By "civilized," some said, he meant simply "well-pruned." Still, in age, Inness began to have a little success. Today the modesty of his art seems...
Jackpot Prize. Even the youngest tennis fans could remember rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.) Pancho Gonzales, the self-taught youngster who smashed his way to the U.S. championship at 20, helped the U.S. successfully defend the Davis Cup, then cashed in by turning pro. The fans also remember a later, paunchy Pancho, a sullen, undertrained pro who got trounced by Kramer, 96 matches to 27, in a 1950 tour. Since then, Gonzales has been teaching and playing in occasional pro tournaments, out of the big-money league. But last week a reconditioned Pancho, fit and full of walloping...
Because of these qualities, Kallir believes that the word primitive does not apply to her. He urges "natural" as a substitute. Expert Sidney Janis (to whom she dedicated the painting on page 40) thinks "self-taught" a better word. Grandma herself is not worried about such intellectual distinctions. Grandma simply aims to please...