According to Dictionary.com, the definition of knowledge is, “acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.” People can find knowledge anywhere in the world; it surrounds us. From the beginning of schooling as a child, knowledge is drilled into people and as the schooling progress, more and more knowledge becomes available to us. However, knowledge does not just come from the classroom. It can come from the streets and other places in the world. Hence the terms “book smart” and “street smart.” It is the basis for everything that we know exist. From knowledge comes ideas, inventions, theories, designs, mostly anything you can think of. People need knowledge to create, so with creativity comes knowledge.
The definition of creativity, according the Dictionary.com is, “the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.” Creativity is what adds flavor and spice to the world. It creates and puts out new ideas and concepts that is developed from one’s own imagination. Knowledge acts as the “traditional ideas, rules, patterns and relationship” that creativity is based from. In order for people to be creative and obtain creativity, they need knowledge to work off of. Creativity cannot exist with out the base of knowledge, and knowledge and creativity work together by making the person think critically and imaginatively.
Would you say that it is possible for an artist to create a piece creatively without knowledge? And then with that creativity, obtain knowledge?
ReplyDeleteHmm so my answer may not sound totally clear because its one of those things that makes sense in your head but might be hard to put into words, haha, but I'll try my best. :)
ReplyDeleteSo I think that there has to be some kind of knowledge when creating any piece, it may be the some of the simplest of things like putting a paint brush to a surface kind of thing. But then I think you can obtain more knowledge from making a piece with creativity. Like, you could do something accidental and learn from that.
Hope that was pretty clear. haha.