
369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough
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Pacaso's Process of Creation, Le Demoiselle d'Avignon
Le demoiselle d'avignon is a painting that pablo pacaso made when he was 26 years old. Pacaso's process of creation, as described by david gallinson, basically, the process is, you come a new discipline, you learn the rules, and you say, i don't like some very basic rule, and i get rid of it. That painting is 95 % of all text books of art that cover the early twentieth century. No other painting is in more than half.
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