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    It is not the case that Successful works of fine art are products of genius

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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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    • 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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