Editing Invention (section)

== In the arts ==
Invention has a long and important history in [[the arts]]. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the [[creative process]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gardner |first=Howard |title=Creating minds : an anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi |date=2011 |publisher=BasicBooks |isbn=978-0-465-02774-3 |oclc=809459661}}</ref> While some inventions in the arts are [[patentable]], others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them. (see [[patent]]).

Some inventions in art include the:
* [[Collage]] and construction invented by Picasso
* [[Readymade]] art invented by [[Marcel Duchamp]]
* [[Mobile (sculpture)|mobile]] invented by [[Alexander Calder]]
* Combine invented by [[Robert Rauschenberg]]
* Shaped painting invented by [[Frank Stella]]
* [[Motion picture]], the invention of which is attributed to [[Eadweard Muybridge]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eadweard Muybridge &#124; Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/photography-biographies/eadweard-muybridge |website=www.encyclopedia.com |access-date=Jun 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Eadweard Muybridge (British photographer)  |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/399928/Eadweard-Muybridge |access-date=2013-08-30 |date=1904-05-08}}</ref>
* Video art invented by [[Nam June Paik]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nam June Paik|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nam-June-Paik/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Britannica|language=en}}</ref>
Likewise, [[Jackson Pollock]] invented an entirely new form of painting and a new kind of abstraction by dripping, pouring, splashing and splattering paint onto un-stretched canvas lying on the floor.

Inventive tools of the artist's trade also produced advances in creativity. [[Impressionist]] painting became possible because of newly invented collapsible, resealable metal paint tubes that facilitated spontaneous painting outdoors.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Never Underestimate the Power of a Paint Tube|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/never-underestimate-the-power-of-a-paint-tube-36637764/|access-date=2021-04-29|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}}</ref> Inventions originally created in the form of artwork can also develop other uses, e.g. Alexander Calder's mobile, which is now commonly used over babies' cribs. Funds generated from patents on inventions in art, design and architecture can support the realization of the invention or other creative work. [[Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi]]'s 1879 [[design patent]] on the [[Statue of Liberty]] helped fund the famous statue because it covered small replicas, including those sold as souvenirs.<ref>1879, F. Auguste Bartholdi U.S. Patent D11,023</ref>

The [[timeline for invention in the arts]] lists the most notable artistic inventors.