مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Art Creativity and Creation in the Context of Human Motive

Abstract :

Creativity has been an indispensable part of humans’ life since the moment they first appeared on earth. When people who lived under the limiting and determining pressure of nature began to show civilized characteristics; in other words during the period when they were only fighting against hunger, diseases and cold, they used their creativity primarily as a method of coping with nature. In this context, creativity which came into being as a result of mankind’s struggle with nature to which they were striving to belong wasn’t limited to just an activity of forming the matter. As soon as they felt that they could perform it, people directed this ability to the artistic field. And thereby we have genetically inherited creativity which our ancestors materialized by producing tools. In the artistic sense the evaluation criteria that a producer is an artist and a produced material is a work of art are left outside this study. What we want to discuss is the assumption that artistic creativity is not a divinely bestowed gift; on the contrary, it is a potential which exists in human nature. Within the perspective of this argument art, creativity, human and motive for creativity have been analyzed.