2007-02-25 16:49:22 · 5 answers · asked by Lee Edward 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
I believe in Da Vinci's day, artists didn't really go to art school, but rather were apprenticed to more famous artists who ran studios and they worked for them until they could go into business for themselves.
However, in the age of art schools, Vincent Van Gogh was one famous artist who never had formal training as well as Paul Gaugin.
2007-02-25 17:45:23 · answer #1 · answered by Roswellfan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the masters never attended art school. I don't believe Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light, went to a top art school (he went to high school in a little town in Northern California); Randy Wix, an acclaimed artist in Colorado, is self-taught (by the way, he attended the same high school as Kinkade).
2007-02-25 17:00:25 · answer #2 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Davinci apprentice though did not attend a academy of higher learning .He was most self taught Picasso father was a artist he taught him though Picasso never went to a academia though he as did Van Gogh study from the master drawing of Bargue .
All are schooled through time and experience ,classical as apprentices .. not in academic schools .
Warhol was a university MFA and is the cause and effect of his academic art , as inferior parellel of the masters teachings . as is ego .
Gaugin was a non academic elite artist .
2007-02-25 17:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lots.
Before "top art schools" came into being, a budding artist would learn by apprenticing to a learned artist.
Caravaggio, for example, was an apprentice before he made his own name. And he's just one of MANY.
2007-02-26 00:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by willow oak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tapies, Henri Rousseau ...and many others
2007-02-25 20:27:07 · answer #5 · answered by torreart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋