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When formal training undermines natural talent

Every French impressionist technique I learn makes my paintings look worse than when I just painted intuitively and I wonder if I am destroying my natural ability

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What we've seen

The fear that technical education might corrupt innate artistic gifts reveals anxiety about the relationship between knowledge and spontaneity.

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