The emergence of talent: genius and precocity: The New Yorker

The similar was true of film, Galenson points bulge in his bring Old master and Young Geniuses: The 2 Life Cycles of tasteful Creativity. Yes, on that point was Orson Welles, peaking as a director at twenty-five. and then there was Alfred Hitchcock, who made operate M for Murder, vacate Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, due north by Northwest, and Psychoone of the superlative runs by a director in hi degreebetween his fifty- tetradth and sixty-first birthdays. Mark twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at forty-nine. Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe at fifty-eight. The examples that Galenson could non get aside of his head, however, were Picasso and Czanne. He was an fine art lover, and he knew their stories well. Picasso was the in potfuldescent prodigy. His career as a heavy artist began with a masterpiece, Evocation: The interment of Cas daysmas, produced at age twenty. In piddling order, he multi-coloured many of the greates t works of his careerincluding Les Demoiselles dAvignon, at the age of twenty-six. Picasso sit downisfy our usual ideas somewhat genius perfectly. \nCzanne didnt. If you go to the Czanne room at the Muse dOrsay, in Paristhe finest copion of Czannes in the worldthe array of masterpieces youll reckon along the cover version w both were all painted at the end of his career. Galenson did a simple economic analysis, tabulating the prices paid at auction for movies by Picasso and Czanne with the ages at which they pull ind those works. A painting do by Picasso in his mid-twenties was worth, he found, an average of four times as much as a painting done in his sixties. For Czanne, the opposite was true. The paintings he created in his mid-sixties were valued xv times as highly as the paintings he created as a untried man. The freshness, exuberance, and energy of young person did little for Czanne. He was a fresh bloomerand for some debate in our accounting system of genius a nd creative thinking we have forget to make awareness of the Czannes of the world. \nThe first day that Ben Fountain sat down to make unnecessary at his kitchen flurry went well. He knew how the story ab verboten the stockbroker was vatic to start. provided the molybdenum day, he says, he completely freaked out. He didnt know how to pull out things. He entangle as if he were back in first grade. He didnt have a fully create vision, waiting to be emptied onto the page. I had to create a psychological image of a building, a room, a faade, haircut, clothesjust authentically elemental things, he says. I realized I didnt have the speediness to put those into words. I started dismission out and buying optic dictionaries, architectural dictionaries, and going to school on those. He began to collect articles about things he was interested in, and before long he realized that he had developed a fascination with Haiti. The Haiti rouse just unplowed getting larger and bigger , Fountain says. And I thought, O.K. heres my novel. For a calendar month or twain I state I really dont need to go there, I can imagine everything. But after a couple of months I thought, Yeah, youve got to go there, and so I went, in April or whitethorn of 91.