ABSTRACT
Expertise research has principally been applied to quantifiably tractable domains such as sports, music and chess. The quantification of expertise enables researchers to determine the similarities between different experts, which are critical for establishing the necessary and sufficient conditions for achievement within that domain. An active area of debate in the expertise literature concerns the relative roles of innate factors and experience in the acquisition of expertise. Because visual art expertise research is in its infancy, there is an absence of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies that could potentially pull apart the relative roles of experience and talent. Contrary to expectation, openness to experience was not implicated in the development of drawing expertise, even though artistic individuals have been found to exhibit higher openness to experience, and openness to experience predicts engagement in the visual arts.
