Inherited Gifts
Dec. 2nd, 2015 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloJudy and I like to argue about whether artistic talent can be inherited. She says it can and I say it can't.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a family tree that supports her position.
John Doyle- Irish cartoonist- begat Richard and Charles Doyle- both of them distinuguished graphic artists- and Charles Doyle begat Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
What I'd say to her, if she ever found out about the Doyles, is that instances of artistic gifts manifesting in three generations of the same family are vanishingly rare. Can you think of another? I can't.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a family tree that supports her position.
John Doyle- Irish cartoonist- begat Richard and Charles Doyle- both of them distinuguished graphic artists- and Charles Doyle begat Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.
What I'd say to her, if she ever found out about the Doyles, is that instances of artistic gifts manifesting in three generations of the same family are vanishingly rare. Can you think of another? I can't.
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Date: 2015-12-05 01:47 pm (UTC)When I was a kid- back in the 60s- there was a huge influx of working class talent into the entertainment industry. I'm talking about the UK here, but I think it was much the same in the USA. I don't see anything similar happening today.