Word: self-taught
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Rousseau, pioneer of modern amateurs, died 31 years ago. In the years since his death, collectors have rummaged through attics, farmhouses, junk shops, looking for work of other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm...
While Chicagoans last week gaped with sincere admiration at Painter Rousseau's creations, Manhattan gallery-goers did their best to find a U.S. Rousseau among their crop of self-taught U.S. artists. And though they failed, they found that U.S. primitives had turned out some quaint and naively appealing canvases. Of the 30 U.S. primitive artists selected by Collector Janis to be shown at the Marie Harriman Gallery the best...
Miss Welty has a clean, original prose style, which is clearly self-taught. In one page after another, she turns up sharp landscapes and atmospheres, details of costume, action and speech, with flashes of real brilliance. Her worst fault is her lust for melodrama, of the insidious sort which lies less in violence than in tricked atmosphere...
...Quinquela home with coal and charcoal, drawing soot-colored pictures wherever he could find a clean space. The Quinquelas finally went to the parish priest about it. The priest bought the boy drawing materials, told him to make his drawings on paper instead. Quinquela Martín, completely self-taught, became renowned throughout La Boca for his drawings; his reputation spread to the smart Avenida Alvear...
...farmer-artists, Earl Sugden, 56, of Yuba in Richland County, does his landscapes with barn paint, makes his own brushes out of hair from his horses' tails clamped into holders fashioned from old tin cans. Painting is only one of Farmer Sugden's many hobbies.' Self-taught in everything, he makes arrowheads by pressure-chipping, has made tin models of more than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent...