Painting I / Creative Strategies and How Artists Select
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Complete the account of strategy and selection.

Guilford separated divergent from ______ thinking in 1950. Duchamp made the 3 Standard Stoppages by dropping three threads one metre long from a height of one ______. Gernika was bombed on 26 April 1937 and Picasso worked on the canvas until ______ June. Around forty-five preparatory ______ survive, dated and numbered by the artist.

Word bank: convergent · metre · 4 · studies · lateral · 14

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  1. The first blank is the operation that narrows rather than widens.
  2. The third blank is a day in the month after work began.
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Guilford separated divergent from convergent thinking in 1950. Duchamp made the 3 Standard Stoppages by dropping three threads one metre long from a height of one metre. Gernika was bombed on 26 April 1937 and Picasso worked on the canvas until 4 June. Around forty-five preparatory studies survive, dated and numbered by the artist.

Why

The first blank is the one worth holding on to. Divergent and convergent are not good and bad kinds of thinking; they are two necessary operations that interfere with each other, and almost every studio problem described as a block is one of them being run at the wrong moment.

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