followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …

Recent research has shown that all the arts have had important practitioners of two different types -- conceptual … 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 … impossible for any one artist to influence practitioners of genres as diverse as painting, video, and installation. This survey … became an inspiration for many other young conceptual artists …

goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached abstraction tentatively and visually, by gradually and progressively … described these two categories of artist, contrasting the facile and protean young virtuoso with the single-minded individual …

This paper considers not only when in their careers the greatest artists of the twentieth century made their greatest …-century art: Picasso alone accounts for the two best three-year periods produced by any artist, and he and Braque account for … three of the best five-year periods, all for the work the two young artists did in developing Cubism. Warhol's innovations …

There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very … innovators - Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt, C‚zanne, and Pollock. Recognition of the effect of an artist's methods on the …

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 …