Can Artistic Talent Ever Be Taught? Nature or Nurture?

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4. Both, first the natural ability. A college friend

worked strenuously for years at improving her painting. Her mother was an art teacher in public school and a fairly good painter. But this friend, unlike her mother lacked natural talent but spent years pursuing a career in visual art.

Finally after struggling to find limited and low paying jobs in the field, she found work as a publication illustrator which worked out well. She had a very practical side, was good at business which her father cultivated. A very hard worker and determined, I don't know why she stayed in the field rather than moving into business.