I enjoyed your comments on art and creativity. It is difficult to discuss terminology ; it can be so confusing because words acquire different connotations according to different cultures, languages, and with time !
To me, creativity is a skill to produce something new, unique. It is a unique interpretation of some perceived aspects of reality. The creative individual has the skill to accurately express these perceptions ; materialize them into either works of art, scientific or philosophical ideas.
Art is a complicated concept. I have read so many different definitions of Art, and the term is so widely and vaguely used that any of the definitions seems correct !
To me, Art is a discipline, a profession, like Science. It is a research discipline, which like Science or Philosophy, pursues knowledge about the world; understanding of reality. I do not agree with the still common traditional conception of art as the discipline that produces beautiful, decorative creations that people can incorporate into their space and enjoy ; this is the same conception that turns the work of art into a commodity that can be marketed and speculated with.
Art is usually regarded as anarchical and introspective. But like Science, art uses technique, and an artist at work is disciplined and methodical. Introspection only occurs after a great deal of observation of the world and of natural phenomena.
I would like to see a widespread change in the role that art plays in society : artists as researchers, not as marginalized or absurdly mithified geniuses, strange, gifted outcasts. Instead, there need to be artistic research institutes, where the job of an artist is to investigate through art ; with no special value added to their production. True works of art are just experiments that approach us to a particular aspect of reality.
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