followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …

work later in their lives. This contradicts a persistent but mistaken belief that artistic creativity has been dominated by …

environment. The rise of a competitive market for advanced art in the late nineteenth century freed artists from the constraint of … conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their … important individual artists whose work appeared to have no unified style, and to the balkanization of advanced art, as the …

Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to … recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances … can equally be made by older, experimental innovators. Yet we have had no examination of why some experimental artists …

art world. A century ago, a great painter could influence nearly all advanced artists, but today it is virtually … became an inspiration for many other young conceptual artists …

This paper considers not only when in their careers the greatest artists of the twentieth century made their greatest … three of the best five-year periods, all for the work the two young artists did in developing Cubism. Warhol's innovations …, identifying the most important short periods of artistic creativity emphasizes the differing methods of conceptual and …

There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very …

puzzle: why do some of the greatest artists not produce famous paintings, and why do some relatively minor artists produce … experimental and conceptual painters. Experimental artists work incrementally, their innovations appear gradually, and they … generally do their best work late in their careers; conceptual artists innovate more suddenly, produce individual breakthrough …

auction records, we estimate the relationship between artists' ages and the value of their paintings for two successive … cohorts of modern American painters. We find that a substantial decline occurred over time in the age at which these artists …