I suppose the question that I have after the first blush of creative expression has occurred, is how does one refrain from producing "derivatives"? I know that art students will sojourn to galleries to study the Masters, recreating what they see in front of them. Obviously, these masters of their craft showed their genius by creating views that were never seen before.
Is it a case of learning a lot of technique and showing mastery of them first; then the springboard leap becomes across a chasm not so wide? Maybe there are commonalities between fine art forms and other disciplines, such as engineering/technology, that participants would build upon mastery of fundamentals?
thoughts?
