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Creativity in Art
Mahamadeus Amanel ell Wardhana
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1. Introduction
daily life cannot be separated from art. Art becomes a very important Pa
Without us realizing it. Art plays an important role in children’s learning phase because it
designs them to create something new from themselves; how they think, feel and see. A‘
involves in-depth the actual processes, perceptions, thinking and body activities.
Many people think that art requires creativity, and this is not denying the truth,
although it is very difficult to measure the level of one’s creativity. Creativity is very
‘important for artists because to become an artist we must have a big creative mind, even
though we can still make art without creativity. However, it's not going to be a creative
Work of at, it’s going to be the opposite, which is derivative?
Creative art is a process of more than just a physical form which involves elemental
Concepts, operational elements, and synthesis elements. Art is all human deeds arising from
its beautiful feetings, soit can move the human’s feelings. Visual art is the making of human
‘work that is closely related to the mind. Taste is arranged and expressed through thought that
‘can be channelled and owned by people. A research said that creativity is not only coming
up with new and original stuff, but it’s about coming up with new and valuable stuff?
Creativity is not only about art it can be acting performances, jokes, lyrics and others
This thesis is aimed to prove hypotheses. The first hypothesis would prove whether
We need creativity to make art or we need to make art to be creative. Proving that an artist
with creativity can make a good piece of artis the second hypothesis. Through this thesis I
also aim to show the importance of creativity to an artist. Therefore, my thesis will be
beneficial to improve critical thinking as well as being able to judge the creativity of an artist
Properly using an instrument so we would not misjudge the artist.
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2. Theory
A What is Art?
ties in creating visual, auditory or performing
art works, expressing the author’s imaginative conceptual idea or technical skill, intended
be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.‘ Music, theatre, film, dance and other
Performing arts as well as literature and other interactive media are include in a definition
‘Artis a diverse range of human activi
of art,
‘The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts Sculptures, cave paintings, Fock
paintings and petroglyphs from the upper Palaeolithic dating to roughly 40.000 years ago
son bee found bt the preside mening of such a soften dispute because 0 tle is
known about the chaos that produce them. “The nature of art are related to concepts. Such as
creativity and interpretation are explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics. The
functions of art are often the most difficult to explain. There are many types of personal
Foret, and hey ar subjective and wil, therefore vary fom person pon and nally
sometimes art is used to assist us in maintaining ourselves as species.
definition about art. Socrates (Greek Philosopher) said “Which is the
as they are or as they appear of
tatoris a long way off the truth, Paul Gauguin (1848-
“Artis either a plagiarist or a revolutionary. And the
interesting thing is Art explain something that reveals the essential or hidden truth, ike ‘what
pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish Painter living in France) said “We all know that artis
not truth, artis a lie that make us realize truth”. Hippocrates (c.460-357B, Greek Physician)
quotes “Life is short, ‘Art is Long — Ares Longa, vita brevis”. From there we can say that art
inside your mind, and it influence by our thought, our interest and our
Here are som
art of painting designed to be an imitation of things
appearance or of reality. Then the imi
1903, Peruvian-born French artist) said
is what comes from
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B. What is Creativity?
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‘The word Creativity comes from the Latin term creo means to create, creativity 7
the use ofthe imagination or original ideas especially in the production of an artisti¢ work.
Creativity i also a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
The created item may be intangible such as an idea a scientific theory, a mus
‘composition, or a joke.
‘The other created item is a physical object such as an invention, a literally work
‘and a painting/artwork Creativity is like a muscle, the more you exercise creativity the
stronger it gets. It must be stretched, Challenged, and occasionally pushed past its comfort
zone. The process based on functional MRIStudies is headed up by Adam Green, director of
the Georgetown Laboratory for Relational Cognition and president elect of the Society for
the neuroscience of creativity. Green’s team look at blood flow as a measure of brain sell
activity. When people were doing creative task the process pointed them to one region of the
brain in particular (the front polar cortex), so they decide to test whether stimulating the area
could make creative thinking® easier. Research shows that when people try to think more
creatively, they almost always can, and it those effect are both significant and repeatable.
‘Aged-old adage in neuroscience, means “That cells that fire together, wire together”.
There are several ways to think outside the box and stimulate our brain to level up
creativity. You must Exercise your creativity like a muscle Because Creativity isn’t made
out of a magical fairy part of the brain, it’s essentially using all the same tools that go into
doing everything else, but applying those tools in creativity-specific ways.
Change up your surroundings .minimally, Try switching out some of the items on your
desk, Take advantage of opportunities to periodically work in different areas of the
office, sit with new colleagues or invite people from different department to lunch
although you might not have much control over your work environment, making any
possible adjustment could translate to a significant creativity boost.
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