The artistic process
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The artistic process?
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The whole activity of making a work, from first idea to finished piece — imagining, trying, choosing and realising.
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Imagination vs craft in making?
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Imagination = the leap to something new; craft = the trained skill to realise it. Neither alone is enough.
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Why isn't 'spontaneous' art really skill-free?
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Even spontaneous work rests on years of practice that make the spontaneity possible.
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Function, form and content?
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The three choices every maker faces: what the work is for, what shape/medium it takes, and what it is about.
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How does the process differ around the world?
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Some traditions prize originality (say something new); others prize mastery and continuity (get the inherited form exactly right).
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The 'lone genius' myth?
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The picture of one solitary artist creating alone — challenged by films, cathedrals, songs and workshops made by many hands.
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Reply to 'but some works are one person's vision'?
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Even those rest on borrowed techniques, teachers and traditions — no one creates from nothing.
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How does the lone genius link to 2.2.1?
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The 'lone genius' process is the twin of the 'born genius' artist — both spotlight one person and hide the web of others.
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