Because he was always painting at the outer limits of his ability, as self-taught artists must do, he never progressed in the traditional way. |
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The only credentials they had to open a business were their self-taught skills. |
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His knowledge is mostly self-taught and is the result of his passion for wine as a hobby. |
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He is a self-taught musician, which makes his life path and progressions that much more implausible. |
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He was a self-taught, spare-time artist who supported himself by working for thirty-nine years in a bank. |
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Kent is a self-taught artist who for 10 years has been developing his own unique style of work by sculpting green wood with a chainsaw. |
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Because he could not afford full-time training, he was mainly self-taught as an artist. |
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Their predecessors were also inspired by the work of self-taught artists but did not often acknowledge their influence. |
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Many of the artists who use the library are self-taught and make use of the books to develop their skills. |
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A self-taught artist, it was in 1997 that he first started wielding the brush. |
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He is a self-taught architect with no degree or professional training in architecture. |
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He is a self-taught artist who began to develop his artistic skills at a very early age. |
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A self-taught artist, Paul is introducing more abstract landscapes into this exhibition. |
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There is the very real input from self-taught artists in the developing world. |
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In a country largely without formal higher education, they were self-taught thinkers. |
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A self-taught cook, she slowly segued toward experimentation in fusion cuisine and opening her own restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. |
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Throughout his period of invalidism, McEldowney became an erudite and self-taught reader and writer. |
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He recently curated a critically successful show of Jamaican self-taught artists. |
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At the same time, he was a self-taught, strongly independent painter who considered himself a primitive. |
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Chen is a self-taught legal advocate but was never allowed to take formal law courses. |
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He was primarily self-taught beginning on trumpet before switching to alto sax. |
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They had become self-taught sailors on the lake, teaching themselves the necessary skills and knots. |
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Based in Shropshire, and almost entirely self-taught, he is the only craftsman in the UK making figurative scagliola. |
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Seven years on at the age of 24, the self-taught scratcher is a familiar face on the South Lakeland music scene. |
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Yes, I am completely self-taught, though not particularly well! |
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He was one of the greatest self-taught artists Trinidad has produced. |
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His father played the accordion and mouth organ, while a brother and sister played piano, all of them self-taught. |
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The self-taught guitarist and prolific song writer would love the opportunity to sing one of his own compositions in Latvia in May. |
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While they were self-taught, they read professional periodicals and kept abreast of the latest advances in the field. |
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Path to Growth: Luce quickly made people forget she is a self-taught woman in a predominantly male field. |
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Looking for a way to implement his natural talents, and being largely self-taught, he immersed himself in the study of human behavior. |
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A self-taught guitarist, Jerry combines modern guitar techniques and the traditional music of his people. |
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The self-taught, highly modest musician started playing music quite naturally, almost out of duty. |
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Practically self-taught, Bras has developed a gastronomic approach inspired by his local region of Aubrac. |
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A self-taught maestro with an extensive audience and an eagerly-awaited album due this year, he's an absolute must-see! |
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A young self-taught photographer, Florian Cella has been working for the press in the French-speaking part of Switzerland for eight years. |
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Gary Engle, a self-taught artist, explains that the heart of his portfolio consists of images of nature that lean toward abstract expressionism. |
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He was a self-taught musician and the beauty of his compositions lies in the adroit mix of folk, Indian classical and western classical music. |
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Bernie was a self-taught engineer who learned to fly in the 1920s, designed his own airfoils and did his own stress analysis on the airplane. |
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Despite a bit of training at the Hartford Art School, Aparo considered himself a self-taught illustrator. |
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At high school and later as an employee of a steel company he dabbled as a self-taught artist in oil painting. |
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He is a self-taught doctor who cares for all the wounded animals that he encounters. |
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It is not known whether John Gould was instructed in taxidermy or self-taught, but his earliest bird specimens showed great skill in preparation. |
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He's a self-taught stunt-rider who is just unbelievable and has incredible balance. |
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Claudia is a self-taught artist who developed a more realistic style by sketching from nature. |
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Henri Rousseau was a self-taught Sunday painter who began intensive painting when he was 40 years old. |
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He dapples and sprays his canvas with sound, and the fact he is self-taught makes his music even more idiosyncratic and unique. |
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The 25-year-old self-taught sewer caters her designs to what her customers want. |
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After spending 10 years dreaming of staging a one-man exhibition in London, self-taught artist Michael Forbes could hardly have imagined how his dearest wish would come true. |
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Tuchman was often criticized by academicians for being a self-taught historian with only a ba. |
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Here an intelligent, self-taught inmate, Jim, works as a file clerk, unjustly called a stoolie by his fellow prisoners although he strives to help them. |
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A self-taught creator with an adventurous mind, Steve Dubuc worked on a large number of artistic projects across the globe as a sound engineer, chief sound engineer and sound technician. |
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Often their religion is self-taught, cherry-picking slogans from the religious texts or, these days, from videos on the Web. |
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For brokers: a free continuous training program with qualified instructors, including courses such as Sales and Communication, as well as self-taught courses on video-tape. |
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It is a self-taught course followed by a one-day training programme. |
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After all, the specialised critic is often absent and the street artists, who are mostly self-taught, do not work sufficiently on reflecting upon and communicating their practices. |
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The self-taught and self-made man, who enjoyed taking risks, married Maria Schmöger in 1880 and had three sons and six daughters with her. |
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Even though the major inventions linked to electricity, metallurgy or even to industrial chemistry were often made by people who were self-taught, engineers still had to master basic knowledge in physics and chemistry. |
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Away from the traditional beaten tracks, she went through the byway of self-taught artists. |
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Whether in computer graphics, graphite, charcoal, water colors, pastels or oils, his skills are primarily self-taught. |
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I'm afraid I was a stubborn, self-taught curmudgeon when I went to my first couple of CANSI workshops and really had lousy technique. |
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The first case study, the Family Alliance for Development and Cooperation, is an initiative by a self-taught technician, Joseph Sekiku, who created a telecentre on his property with the help of small grants. |
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A self-taught artist, Ferdinand achieves an appealing bluntness, with the detail and graphic quality of reportage, using watercolor, colored pencil and ballpoint pen. |
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Then I moved on to camera work, and to taking photos, but I am strictly self-taught. |
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He had been a lumberman in Maine and a waiter in Hollywood, and he was a self-taught artist. |
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Like Mr. Navarra in Hyde Park, Mr. Stolfe is self-taught in the arts and wiles of auctioneering. |
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Fifteen years ago this retired business executive and self-taught weather forecaster began an interesting hobby that quickly grew. |
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A self-taught musician, Sapo tells stories in the form of light-hearted imagistic songs, accompanying herself on guitar, piano and accordion. |
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A self-taught musician, Eric Lévi is more comfortable out of the limelight than in it. |
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Spark's frequent belletristic collaborator was Derek Stanford, another self-taught struggler, a dandyish oddball with a masochistic streak. |
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Creative Captures was incepted by Mertina Blaskie, a self-taught photographer with many years of experience in doing all types of photography. |
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The son of a Covent Garden barber, he was initially self-taught and learned through copying prints and drawings and assisting architectural draughtsmen. |
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They're self-taught experts in the minutiae of day-to-day medieval life, tracking down recipes, studying forgotten languages, practising metalwork or sewing. |
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They are now self-taught experts on prophylactics and parasitic diseases. |
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My son Heatchcliff is a bit like me, largely self-taught, unlike my daughter who is studious. |
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Snead, one of golf's most humourous and ingratiating players, was recognized for the easy grace of his natural, self-taught swing. |
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Bright, bubbly, self-taught talents such as Evans seem harder to find in today's constructed reality mediascape. |
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Snead was noted for the longevity of his career, his agility, and his smooth, self-taught swing. |
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He started studying piano, solfeggio and music theory as a self-taught at the age of ten. |
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He is a self-taught photographer and videographer who has captured changing ways in his hometown over the decades. |
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Those who forge ahead with a disciplined, self-taught program are the most successful in producing heraldically correct and engaging designs. |
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Despite his earlier academic training, Long's painting looks self-taught. |
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This, it turns out, is the bulging vocabulary of the self-taught man, lifted from classic novels and period film scripts and delivered with the rich, rolling gusto of a born raconteur. |
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Largely self-taught, he claimed to have been influenced by Schoenberg, Messiaen, and the musique concrete movement. |
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A self-taught artist from Whitehorse, Tisiga relies on storytelling and personal narratives as inspiration to create new works that juxtapose First Nations symbolism with themes of commercialism and youth culture. |
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Shdi is a self-taught artist who took up sand sculpting because of his sheer passion. |
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She played hooky at the ''Beaux-Arts School'' and consider herself self-taught. Instead, she explored new materials and methods of application, developing her own style. |
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An emblematic and even legendary figure in Canadian jazz, the self-taught musician has won attention and praise since the '60s for his talents as a composer, instrumentalist and arranger. |
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Pizzaiolos can be fussy, and Jim McGown, a real estate developer and self-taught pizzamaker, is no different. |
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It has lost its way. When President Jacob Zuma came to power in May 2009, many hoped that the self-taught Zulu former goatherd with a dazzling smile and common touch would provide a new sense of direction. |
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A very different path was taken by this other self-taught restauranteur. |
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A classically trained musician and a self-taught LIPA-honed player, they combine intricate, percussive guitar and compelling vocals. |
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The two-seater Skycar was developed by 29-year-old self-taught engineer Gilo Cardozo, in his workshop in Mere, Wiltshire. |
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Chelsea Through Sept. 3 The notion that self-taught art remains a terra incognita, constantly refreshed by hidden streams of creativity around the world, is reinforced by this vibrantly inharmonious show. |
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As a self-taught politician, he had come to know what was right and what was wrong, and said so in terms that shocked an increasingly relativist world. |
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A self-taught man, he worked as a greengrocer and later as an accountant. |
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A self-taught apiarist, he developed an interest in honeybees as a child, when, observing them hovering over a patch of clover, he tried unsuccessfully to follow them back to their hives. |
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Born in Paris in 1945 and completely self-taught, Hervé Mathieu-Bachelot is an eminently well-known and renowned colourist, sculptor and engraver. |
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But Comte aspired to free himself of a tutelage that weighed ever heavier on him, as he found the unmethodical and fickle mind of the self-taught, philanthropic aristocrat barely tolerable. |
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Cvijanovic is a self-taught painter in midcareer whose work until now has consisted of repertorial landscapes that describe the changing face of America. |
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All are self-taught or, to use a posh word, they are autodidacts. |
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A self-taught film-maker, Masab's clever special effects make the movie, as he asks philosophical questions on human knowledge acquisition, processing and transfer. |
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Born in 1947, self-taught, and from ultratraditional Japanese background, Satoh writes shimmering, ecstatically minimalist music full of tremolos and delicate melodies. |
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