Each of the two strategies must be learned, and then the two must be integrated together. Full mastery is achieved when the artist cycles between strategies so fluidly that they seem to be just one process. One could also think of writing a novel by composing individual sentences, or many other similar examples. An important point about this analogy is that it does not portray the two strategies as opposites that must be brought into compromise. If this were the case, we would expect that paintings with poorly done brush strokes would have better composition, and those with bad composition would have the best brush strokes.
Good artists do both strategies well, poor artists do neither well.
In the case of artists and paintings, this may be stating the obvious. But in life matters, we often see different strategies as competing, rather than complementary. This is an obstacle to achieving mastery. Each discipline has four elements. One can think of the capacities as wells and the processes as conduits.