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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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022 Creativity

Creativity is the generation of new ideas, insights, and previously unimagined images.

• Creativity is a surprisingly recent idea. Greek philosophy regarded the visual arts as largely imitative. It wasn’t until the Renaissance that creation was recognized as a characteristic of human beings and not until the Romantic era that any serious thinking was applied to the function of the imagination.

• The first good attempt at analyzing creativity only appeared in 1926, when Graham Wallas (1858–1932) proposed the following model:

1. Preparation: An initial assessment of a problem

2. Incubation: A waiting period while the mind absorbs the task

3. Intimation: A sense that there is a solution

4. Illumination: A creative insight occurs ...

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ISBN: 9781631595431