What does
that mean? What is an Artist?
Like other
occupational titles of doctor, lawyer, Indian chief there are all these sub-titles.
An ‘artist’
can be a painter or a designer or a musician or a singer or a dancer… the list
goes on and on.
Yet the title
‘artist’ connotes ‘creativity’.
What is
‘creativity’?
Creativity is
a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created
item may be intangible (such as an idea,
a scientific
theory, a musical
composition, or a joke)
or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting).
Scholarly
interest in creativity is found in a number of disciplines, primarily psychology, business studies, and cognitive science, but
also education, technology, engineering, philosophy (particularly philosophy of
science), theology,
sociology, linguistics, and economics, covering the
relations between creativity and general intelligence, personality
type, mental and neurological processes, mental health, or artificial
intelligence; the potential for fostering creativity through
education and training; the fostering of creativity for national economic
benefit, and the application of creative resources to improve the effectiveness
of teaching and learning.
So
‘creativity’ is just problem solving.
Don’t forget
to put out the tip jar. People don’t want to pay for thinking.
