Why have some great modern artists--including Picasso--produced
their most important work early in their careers while others--like
Cezanne--have done theirs late in life? In a work that brings new
insights, and new dimensions, to the history of modern art, David
Galenson examines the careers of more than 100 modern painters to
disclose a fascinating relationship between age and artistic
creativity.
Galenson's analysis of the careers of figures such as Monet,
Seurat, Matisse, Pollock, and Jasper Johns reveals two very
different methods by which artists have made innovations, each
associated with a very different pattern of discovery over the life
cycle. Experimental innovators, like Cezanne, work by trial and
error, and arrive at their most important contributions gradually.
In contrast, Picasso and other conceptual innovators make sudden
breakthroughs by formulating new ideas. Consequently, experimental
innovators usually make their discoveries late in their lives,
whereas conceptual innovators typically peak at an early age.
A novel contribution to the history of modern art, both in
method and in substance, "Painting outside the Lines" offers an
enlightening glimpse into the relationship between the working
methods and the life cycles of modern artists. The book's explicit
use of simple but powerful quantitative techniques allows for
systematic generalization about large numbers of artists--and
illuminates significant but little understood features of the
history of modern art. Pointing to a new and richer understanding
of that history, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism and
beyond, Galenson's work also has broad implications for future
attempts to understand the nature of human creativity in
general.
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