Painting I / Creative Strategies and How Artists Select
Practice question · True or false

Divergent and convergent thinking work best when carried out at the same time, so that weak ideas are removed as soon as they appear.

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  1. Ask what happens to an unpromising idea that has not been developed yet.
  2. The whole point of the distinction is that the two interfere.
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False

Why

False, and it is the failure the distinction exists to name. Judging during generation removes options before they are legible, so the search stops at whatever was already familiar. The two operations interfere, which is why the working rule is to separate them in time and preferably in place.

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