Pollock and fractals

Quoted text begins......There has been discussion about sending models away
and having other people do the carving. As well as having famous artists
train assistants to do the work. It is an interesting question when the
artist is not actually making the work and not even present during
production. What happens when the artigianni has tackled a particular
problem in a way that the artist himself wouldn't have?
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Very interesting question, John!!!! This is the first new idea that I've
heard
in this (tiresome, for me, up until today) question of who does the actual
hand work?

There are two levels of artistry here, maybe.

My hero Brancusi did the initial discoveries (and attendent thinking) in
stone and wood.
Later (maybe) he became overtaken by the world, really, in the demands for
him to repeat and repeat.
Eventually he moves into a (transcendent?) space, living among his past
achievements.
At this point, it is all ritual and meditation.
The dirty grimy work of youth is left back there in the youthful past, aka
folly :o) !

As we know, the same trap awaits all our heros: Moore, et al
but not, I hasten to add, my near hero: Leonard Baskin!!

Thanks for introducing these thoughts to me, John.

carving,
Oscar