The subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. The viewer’s imagination is necessary to complete the works. Some of history’s greatest artists explored such an aesthetic, among them Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, Cezanne, Monet. The intentional unfinished embraces the open-ended. “To finish a […]
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“We need to be able to visualize our creative thinking as one thing and the discipline we work in as another. Once you speak the language of creativity you can talk about many different subjects. When you learn the language of creativity it alters the lens through which you can […]
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Western society is built on the assumption that people are fundamentally selfish. Machiavelli gave us influential philosophies built on human selfishness. Freud gave us a psychology of selfishness of children. Classical economics adopts a model that says people are primarily driven by material self-interest. Political science assumes that people are […]
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When you help someone you learn. To teach someone something you know, you learn it better. By explaining it to someone you get a better knowledge, a better perspective of it than what you had before. Everyone learns, it is a win-win. So why is it that individuals don’t […]
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One of the greatest strengths a fragrance has is its ability to EXPRESS the INEXPRESSIBLE. Communicating your idea, or fragrance to an other would be more vivid, have more layers of meaning, by tapping into the limbic system of the brain. Since that is where the smell of a […]
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