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This is a list of notable autodidacts. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal educations, including some college, although not in the field(s) for which they became prominent.
Tadao Ando is a famous autodidact architect of the twenty-first century. Many successful and influential architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Violet-Le-Duc, Tadao Ando were self-taught. There are very few countries allowing autodidacticism in architecture today.
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As he did with other aspects of Pippin's career, his dealer Robert Carlen took credit for exposing the artist to Hicks' series as he was a principal advocate for both autodidacts. [5] Horace Pippin, Crucifixion, 1943. Menil Collection. Pippin painted two self portraits, including one seated at the easel.
These were, in the main, writers without access to formal education, so they were either autodidacts or had mentors or patrons. This lack of standardized education gave rise to the notion of the "rough," "untutored," "natural" artist.
He is famous for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis called the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper. [5] Nayef Al-Rodhan: Philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. Author of Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man; Emotional Amoral Egoism and Symbiotic Realism. Philip Warren Anderson: American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics ...
Sophia Elisabet Brenner was encouraged by her spouse and his artistic friends to continue her studies and her writing during her marriage: she is known to be active as a writer from the year after her marriage until her death: the only older poem known is her funeral poem over her teacher in 1676.
The notion that female autodidacts are systematically (though not necessarily malevolently – male privilege forms powerful blinders) overlooked or unaccounted for makes sense to me. Especially considering non-academic, tradition-related fields such as (to some extent) music or partly private activities such as food preparation, the concept of ...