Creativity With Knowledge

Creativity seems to be more of a feeling. It’s the act of being able to create something new and possibly exciting. Sometimes, to see more of what can be rather then what is. Creativity is being able to see beyond something’s appearance and keep adding on to it in a creative manner, or changing it to look even more artistic. It goes through stages of continuous adding on and taking off until whatever is being done no longer looks like a traditional object. A form of creativity, to me, would be distortion, changing the image of something to make it look different and possibly better. To be creative, it doesn’t require much thought, it’s more of a mental picture that develops when looking at real, traditional, bland objects of everyday life.

           

Knowledge on the other side of artistic ability is more of thinking. The “why do this?” side, the side that questions every motive to put real, intellectual meaning into whatever is being done. It’s basically knowing, being accustomed to thoughts and discovered from investigation. Knowledge comes with time, the more you see, and hear the more knowledgeable you can become. It’s about finding the under-the-surface behind art, behind anything in life, and finding out why it does that, and how it got started

Knowledge and creativity are a bit of opposites, to me at least. Creativity is more of doing from random thought, images created in your head, and inspired by everyday life; however knowledge is more of taking the time to think and process, learning why it does that. Creativity can seem like a jumbled mess that looks like it has no meaning, at least to someone who is trying to be knowledgeable. Then again, creativity is in stages, and small thought process goes into being a knowledgeable outcome. Through the process of the stages, knowledge and creativity intertwine to be a better art piece.