Occam’s Razor
‘Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate’ [Plurality must never be posited without necessity] – which occurs in his theological work on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (12th century).

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Sistine Chapel fresco by Michelangelo.
‘This mural is a balance between pure artistic expression and utility of purpose. This delicate balance is extraordinarily rare in the visual arts, but when it is struck, it has the exactness of a bull's-eye. Who would question this mural as authentic “fine art,” and yet it has a purpose and utility that contradict the definition of the so-called difference between fine and applied art: “applied” art should be functional and “fine” art without utility. This snobbish attitude influences many artists on both sides of the fence and creates an atmosphere of alienation and confusion.’ (Donis A. Dondis 1973)

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Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art)
as written by Wagner in 1849

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Gesamtwerk (entire work) is how Stuart Bailey refers to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: ‘[his] legacy was to avoid the narrowing of experience through single-minded professionalism and careerism by encouraging the mastery of all techniques towards uninhibited plurality and imagination’. (extract from the Tate website).

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