Creativity
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Resonant Thoughts: George Newman’s “How Great Ideas Happen” (2026)
“From this point forward, Mondrian iterates endlessly on this same motif. During the second half of his career, his paintings have an almost obsessive quality as he narrows in and refines. It’s as if he is trying to understand the very limits of what this combination of elements can produce and unearth all that he… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Riccardo Falcinelli’s “Chromorama: How Colour Has Changed Our Way of Seeing” (2025)
“Conventions change to reflect wider changes in the culture, but what is worth underlining here is how the ideas that we have about things have always been constructed starting from the concrete uses of the things themselves” (104). “This is how our collective imagination is constructed: an idea appears, takes shape, is liked, begins to… Continue reading
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Art Is Artisanal
AI’s incursion into art-making raises the question, What defines the artist’s skill set? Artists are artisans and art is artisanal. Building on this, consider six qualities of art’s artisanal-ness and how AI fails to achieve them. Art-making is by hand. Playing music, writing, painting, dancing, cooking—art contains and expresses traces of the body that made… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: “The World According to David Hockney” (2024)
“New ideas often seem to go against common sense” (57). “You can’t have art without play. Even a scientist has a sense of play. And that allows for surprises, the unexpected” (69). “Painters must, to a certain extent, analyze their work afterwards. I’m sure the Cubists didn’t plan it, they didn’t down and say, ‘Well,… Continue reading
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Notes On Ed Catmull’s “Creativity, Inc.”
“The uncreated is a vast, empty space” – Ed Catmull Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc. is a memoir that explores and analyzes the history and creative life of Pixar, the American computer animation company. Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar, its current president, and an accomplished computer scientist, untangles the complex business of how to… Continue reading
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On Philippe Petit’s “Creativity: The Perfect Crime”
“When is something worth pursuing? I think when the outcome advances the efforts of humanity.” – Philippe Petit In his recent book, Creativity: the perfect crime, Philippe Petit reveals the elements, flows, techniques, and routines of his very long career as an artist. Petit is high-wire walker, juggler, magician, lock-picker, and all around street entertainer,… Continue reading
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