Run by digital fabrication expert Arthur Young-Spivey, the kids are learning several highly intuitive 3D modeling software programs.

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For the Dutchman, observes Mr Spivey, art was the extension of gospel preaching.

ECONOMIST: Why is art so hard?

As Mr Spivey, a Cambridge classicist, shows in a book which consistently picks at our sores, these are also dilemmas which have long histories.

ECONOMIST: Why is art so hard?

For classical anecdotes, as Mr Spivey recounts, tell of artists actually torturing their models so as to be able to chisel pain with utter veracity.

ECONOMIST: Why is art so hard?

We have, as Mr Spivey reflects, been programmed to pathos, and the other side of that cultural coin may be our ghoulish fascination for the photo-journalism which captures the last wince and wail of every disaster.

ECONOMIST: Why is art so hard?

Miller, Jay Spivey and Ruijue Peng.

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