Word: self-taught
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...Hunziker, 51, is an intense, self-taught artist whose chief love is Byzantine and Romanesque art. In his stained glass he tries to mirror the restrained magnificence of his anonymous idols. Restricting himself to 20 hues of glass-chosen from 15,000 commercially available-he assembles his windows with an artisan named Karl Ganz, then paints them in grisaille (i.e., grey glaze). The whole job (composing, assembling, painting, firing, leading) takes up to three years, and only when the glass is finally installed can the artist see his work as a living entity, vibrating with the light...
Paddy Swift does not look like a tough guy. A tall, gangling youngster with long sideburns and mild brown eyes, he is largely self-taught. He did his best to avoid school altogether, and when rounded up and set at a desk, he spent his time sketching instead of learning his Latin. Then came "a short period during which I tried to get the family used to the idea that I didn't want...
...champion, a former skiing champion and, in the judgment of many leading critics, French Canada's outstanding novelist. In addition, TIME's writers and researchers have found him to be a discriminating reporter, with a knack of transferring his vivid French style to colorful phrases in his self-taught English. In discussing TIME, for instance, he writes: "TIME is a magazine always faithful to its manner as a stone is faithful to its hardness. I like that. What is a TIME story? It is a common fact or human being which explodes in an unusual way toward universal...
March 28." Foster's early potatoes brought a high price and he paid off a $1,800 debt that had been haunting his father for years. The Snubber. At 19, Foster opened up a small machine shop. A self-taught trombone player, he also gave lessons. Combining his musical and mechanical talents, he invented an auto horn that worked off the exhaust and tootled several musical notes. He called it the Gabriel Horn, founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co., and made $150,000. Then he began to tinker with a shock absorber for autos...
...Otis Dozier, 48, a self-taught Texan who started painting WPA murals during the Depression, now sells his light, brightly colored landscapes and pelicans for prices up to $800, including one to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...