FEATURED ARTICLE: The Creative Process in Picasso's Guernica Sketches: Monotonic Improvements versus Nonmonotonic Variants

By Dean Keith Simonton. 2007

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Paul T. Sowden
2. Andrew Pringle
3. Liane Gabora
4. Mark A. Runco
5. Wei-Lun Lin
6. Yunn-Wen Lien
7. Dean Keith Simonton
8. G. Jaeger

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Paul T. Sowden
2. Andrew Pringle
3. Liane Gabora
4. Dean Keith Simonton
5. Mark A. Runco
6. Wei-Lun Lin
7. Yunn-Wen Lien
8. G. Jaeger

In Social Psychology

1. Liane Gabora
2. Mark A. Runco
3. Wei-Lun Lin
4. G. Jaeger
5. Yunn-Wen Lien
6. Andrew Pringle
7. Paul T. Sowden
8. Dean Keith Simonton

Citations in the corpus

• The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, background): “Simonton (1999, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) elaborated this into a Darwinian theory of creativity.”
• The Standard Definition of Creativity (2012, background): “…mention of ‘‘variation’’ is quite interesting, given the ongoing debate about blind variation and selective retention as requirements for the creative process (Gabora, 2011; Runco, 2007a; Simonton, 2007; Weisberg & Hass, 2007), but what is most pertinent is the phrase ‘‘valuable inventiveness.’’”
• Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model after the Half-Century Mark (2011, background): “Picasso’s Guernica sketches provide a case in point.”
• The Different Role of Working Memory in Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended Creative Problem Solving: A Dual-Process Theory Account (2013, background): “This implication shed light on the recent debate of how blind an innovative artwork, as exemplified by Picasso’s production of Guernica, was created (cf. Simonton, 2007; Weisberg & Hass, 2007).”
• Creative Thought as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Why Creativity is Inversely Related to Sightedness (2013, unknown): “…psychologists have attempted to develop and extend Campbell’s (1960) ideas both theoretically and empirically (Cziko, 1998; Damian & Simonton, 2011; Martindale, 1990; Perkins, 1998; Simonton, 2007a, 2009, 2010, 2012b; Staw, 1990), the BVSR theory of creativity remains contentious (Simonton, 2011b).”