In the Italian Renaissance, the idea of the polymath was expressed by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), in the statement that "a man can do all things if he will". The term is often used to describe great thinkers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment who excelled at several fields in science and the arts. The term was first used in the 17th century the related term, polyhistor, is an ancient term with similar meaning. He was an autodidact with an interest in music and literature.A polymath (,, "having learned much") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. Thus the story begins with a young Andrew Marshall, an autodidact, reading widely and voraciously in Detroit. Gillian has been painting for some twenty years and is autodidact. His efforts as an autodidact demonstrated the diversity of the concerns that made up his comprehensive activity as a savant throughout his all life. Oswald was a left-wing autodidact who had defected to the Soviet Union. The product of rough and tumble machine-politics and an autodidact, Truman did, like Roosevelt before him, craft a policy informed by an amalgam of American interests and ideals.Īn autodidact inspired by the greatly renowned French luthier Daniel Friederich, since 1976, Bruno Boutin has created over 70 powerful guitars with incredible tone. You have studied patrology as an autodidact while working in parishes. Soon after, he presented his collection to an audience of women, who were won over by the talent of the autodidact designer.Ĭonversely, the contemporary period witnessed a surge of doubts about the role of training in the genesis of an artist and the notion of the artist as an autodidact was further developed. Mr Tarantino is a voracious autodidact, and the film thrums with his infectious fascination with everything from German legends to phrenology to the correct way to fold a napkin.Īs an autodidact, I have serendipitously discovered and developed my own quilting and appliqué techniques, using ethnic textiles as a source of inspiration.Ī fervent autodidact, Hall never stopped learning, reading widely late at night.
Turner was a barber's son from Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, a uniquely talented autodidact who was already producing accomplished watercolours in his mid-teens. The outcome is a great strength of this show. Sotomayor, a star student but not an autodidact, has remained close to her alma maters. If you're an autodidact who learned your skills on your own, please tell us all about it.Ĭlare was an energetic autodidact, and his first verses were much influenced by the Scottish poet James Thomson.Īn autodidact, Lord Trotman shared this love, and no Trotman speech was complete without a byte from the bard. Nonetheless, road transport's operators are generally small companies, which managers are mainly autodidact. Ryman, who initially devoted himself to music, began his career in the visual arts as an autodidact. Musical background: I started playing the guitar when I was fourteen, as an autodidact, then I decided to take lessons with Alain Aimé.Īs a true autodidact, he improved his knowledge of music, regarding the technique, but also the art of music.īut I'm really an autodidact, so I want to make another short before making the feature that I'm writing and which is really close to my heart. Huxley, an autodidact and brilliant comparative anatomist was Professor of Natural History at the Royal School of Mines. Highly motivated and passionate, autodidact, high adaptability, teamwork, strong understanding of animations principles. Torbjørn: I am autodidact and have learnt to play the instruments from the time I played in other bands. She was also an autodidact, an illegitimate girl from the provinces whose intelligence became the stuff of legend.
Since Carruth is a one-man band and autodidact, he learned how to create the special effects for the creature himself. He was an autodidact who taught himself these languages while working as an Assistant Keeper in the British Museum, after completing a Classics degree at Cambridge. His music exhibits both the glories and pitfalls of the autodidact. He started his working life as a bookbinder, though he longed to be part of the world of science, which he learned about with all the vigour of an autodidact. It is not that difficult to tell the derelict from the opsimath or the autodidact from the pot pusher.Īn autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
He rages with all the garrulous articulacy of the legal autodidact, narrowly educated after years of court cases, appeals and disappointments.Īn autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.