On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:05:00PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> [Any art connoisseurs want to do to this what Leo did to the teacher crap?]
>
> <http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8368>
>
> Young Geniuses and Old Masters: The Life Cycles of Great Artists from
> Masaccio to Jasper Johns
> David W. Galenson, Robert Jensen
>
> NBER Working Paper No. W8368
> Issued in July 2001
>
> There have been two very different life cycles for great artists:
> some have made their greatest contributions very early in their
> careers, whereas others have produced their best work late in their
> lives. These two patterns have been associated with different working
> methods, as art's young geniuses have worked deductively to make
> conceptual innovations, while its old masters have worked
> inductively, to innovate experimentally. We demonstrate the value of
> this typology by considering the careers of four great conceptual
> innovators - Masaccio, Raphael, Picasso, and Johns - and five great
> experimental innovators - Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt, C’zanne,
> and Pollock. Recognition of the effect of an artist's methods on the
> timing of his contribution appears to solve a puzzle that has been
> recognized by art historians for more than a century.
>
>
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