out of school and pursue a career as an artist sheila took the entrance examination to the academy of fine arts and passed with distinction in october nine hundred six at the age of sixteen he became its youngest student. she'll have. ways too smart and too fast for the academy and very often the teacher would give. long assignments you know of a project that they would have several hours to work on and he would come in at the last minute and do it in you know ten fifteen minutes what the other students had been working on for hours. very very quickly. outgrew the academy and of course his professor creep in carol hated air for that because he didn't listen he had his own mind and. someone who was such an upstart was a bad influence for the other students as well she was frustrated by the academy's conservatism. he left the school in ninety nine without a diploma and founded the noise all new group with other dissatisfied students. there exhibitions attracted interest among those impressed by the nineteen year olds personal style was cool stuff. this seemingly trivial and basic watercolor of a