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The artist's autodidacticism, the fact of his only beginning to paint full-time at age fifty, his retreat to the Walden-like Dana Point in California are a study in Emersonian self-reliance. What's here doesn't tell me anything except that I'm probably in the presence of a pretentious autodidact who's got a generous enough sense of humor to make fun of pretentious autodidacticism. Awakened to the power of visual art by a chance encounter with a picture in an Amsterdam shop window, Winterson describes her subsequent ardors of autodidacticism, then proceeds to lay down the law on how to really look at a painting. |
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