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Most great artistic works are the creation of a single human: Shakespeare, Mozart, Da Vinci, etc.
by lquist 5y ago
Most great artistic works are the creation of a single human: Shakespeare, Mozart, Da Vinci, etc.
- jfk13 5y agoIn one sense, yes. In another, though, most great artistic works draw inspiration from other earlier works, and so are arguably not a "creation" by a single human; more like an evolution, a synthesis, a derivation, a continuation... Would Shakespeare have written Romeo and Juliet if there hadn't previously been Pyramus and Thisbe, or many other sources? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet#Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet#Sources