I think you describe one very important part of art, which also works
perfectly for science: First, there's an idea, and then a long -
technical and conscious - way of making that idea come true. Still, I
think there are other forms of art which are also quite interesting:
With music, one interesting approach is simply playing around with it.
Exploring sound. I would call this a more "intuitive" approach. That is:
you don't consciously follow a concept. There's inspiration in the
process of creation.
The same could be done with photography I guess. The more complex art is
to create, the harder this approach gets, though. With advanced Virtual
Reality this might change: possibly one day, you'll be able to
intuitively play around with different designs and experience them while
you are creating them.
Is there any good work about this available? Some definition of
different types of art, like - let's say "intuitive art" and "functional
art"? And maybe how wide-spread the different types are? This should be
quite interesting!
later,
Holger
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