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...Artist. Posada was born in 1852, of peasant stock, in Aguascalientes, Mexican provincial capital. Largely self-taught, he went to work in Mexico City in the late 1880s. Porfirio Diaz was ruling Mexico then as a dictator. The San Carlos Academy of Art, near Posada's workshop, was teaching a decadent, imported style to young artists. Posada ignored the Academy, attacked the Diaz regime with vitriolic cartoons. Among his admirers were today's top-ranking Mexican artists, José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, young students of the time whose work was strongly influenced by his. (Orozco: "Posada...
...Without Sleep. Martinez still takes council with his "invisible legions," calls himself "the Autodidact" (self-taught), and gives frequent radio lectures on anything from "applied psychoanalysis" to sociology. He knows little about such subjects and speaks in what his detractors call "basic Spanish." But his undulating words have a certain hypnotic effect upon his simpler subjects. Some of them believe that he can make himself invisible and eavesdrop upon their secret, often rebellious thoughts. The President does not sleep well, paces the Palace at night or wanders around the heavily guarded grounds. Many Salvadorans believe that he is haunted...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...
Abraham Walkowitz, 64, is himself an artist, largely self-taught. Born in Russia, bred in Brooklyn, he is an uncompromising modernist, claims that he was the first modern artist in America. Until his current show, he was chiefly known for his 20-year series of some thousands of drawings of famed Dancer Isadora Duncan. To this day Artist Walkowitz will give one of these line drawings to anybody who he thinks has the right feeling about Isadora...
...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...