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Leonardo da Vinci's creative process
How to approach problem-solving like da Vinci
The importance of curiosity and observation
The artist and trees
Trees have enchantment and self-clarification to artists.
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” wrote William Blake.
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Paul Klee likens the artist to a tree
In a 1924 lecture about the creative process, German artist Paul Klee has insightfully intersected the canon of sylvan metaphors with the canon of theories of creativity.
"The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, unobtrusively found his way...
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The work of art is not a direct translation of the subconscious
Klee cautions that It is rather the work of transmutation for which the artist is both the agent and the vessel:
"Nobody would affirm that the tree grows its crown in the image of its root. Between above and below can be no mirrored reflection. It is obvious that different functions exp...
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The Fruits
The fruits represent the actions that the tree uses to create new opportunities for others.
It represents the way in which the tree gives back to and helps sustain the forest which it is a part of and has depended on.
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