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    Successful works of fine art are products of genius — Carmelics
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    Successful works of fine art are products of genius

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    • 1.Fine art must appear non-intentional while being intentional
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    • 2.Fine art has representational or semantic content yet must produce free play of mental powers
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    • 3.Genius is a natural gift that gives the rule to art and can resolve these apparent paradoxes
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    • 1.Artistic success is measured by communicable aesthetic experience in audiences, not by the psychological origins of the creative process.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no private mental gift can constitute the normative standard that makes art 'fine'.
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    • 3.Therefore the causal story of how a work was produced is irrelevant to whether it succeeds as fine art.
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    • 1.Collingwood and Dewey demonstrate that artistic making is a craft-like process of problem-solving through materials, revision, and technique.
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    • 2.Works produced through deliberate collaborative craft—Gothic cathedrals, Homeric epics, jazz improvisation—achieve paradigmatic fine art status.
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    • 3.The genius model falsely romanticizes individual spontaneous creation and cannot account for these historically central cases of artistic excellence.
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    Now we can turn to Kant’s analysis of fine art and our experience of it. For Kant, all art is intentional human production that requires skill or talent, yet fine or “beautiful” (schöne) art is produced with the intention of doing what anything beautiful does, namely, promoting the free play of the cognitive powers. That a work of fine art must be the product of intention and yet produce the free play of the mental powers seems like the paradox that “beautiful art, although it is certainly inten
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