Art and Creativity

 

Everybody has his/her own definition for creativity. Most of us agree that creativity is that unique idea of a person about anything that makes him do some kind of unique action. Music, literature, painting, etc., even mathematics and mathematic principles are examples of art. If you sing well, that’s an art. If you write well, that’s an art. If you draw well, that’s an art.

Creativity creates art. In simpler words creativity teaches your brain to do something unique. Like when you draw a painting of a bus, it might be totally different from the painting of someone else, but it can be similar (not same).

Art is something that has no chance of cheating. You can cheat in maths, science, or other subjects; but not in art. In maths your answers can be the same, but in art, your answers are different, or similar.

When discussing about art, there is a very common confusion that people have—i.e., confusing similar and same. The funny thing about these two words is that if you go and approach a dictionary to find the meaning of these two words, you will find that similar is said to be same and same is considered as similar.

How are these two different? Imagine, you draw the picture of the sun, and your brother also draws a picture of the sun. Both of you might have drawn a circle surrounded by seemingly straight lines, but both of your drawings are different, but same at the same time.

Guessed it right, if something is different and same, at the same time, then it is a similar thing. Same however is exactly similar to what your drawing would be.

For example if you drew the image in MS Paint on a computer, then the image that you are drawing and the image that the computer is drawing is exactly the same. So yours and the computer’s image which you drew in MS Paint are the same.

We humans are not perfect, so we can perform similar tasks, not same tasks. When teachers give us question-answers on the blackboard, we all write the same words in our notebook right? But whatever we write is different—everyone’s handwriting is different, someone might have done a spelling mistake, someone might have added an extra word etc., and other differences.

So, our notes in the classroom are similar, not same. If you go to your school’s computer lab, and open MS Word and type the same text, in the same font, in the same font-size, and in the same font-colour, then the texts that you will type will be exactly the same. So, if something is exactly as the other thing is the other thing, then it is called same and if something is vaguely same then it is called similar.

So your drawings may be similar, but not the same, I hope you get the point. That’s what makes art, well—an art! There is always something different in some person’s creation and some other person’s creation. Just like I have written this article on art and creativity, if you read some other writer’s article on art and creativity, then it might be completely different from mine. So this is my art and that would be that writer’s art. Well it’s an article on art and creativity.

How can we remain creative is the next question that might strike our minds. Well, we can reach the destination of art by travelling on the road of practice. If you like to do something, then it becomes easier to do that thing. Like if you like to draw then you will want to draw more and more. And when you draw more and more, it is turning from your hobby from practice.

Practicing, as discussed previously, can turn someone from an inexperienced person to experienced person. So if you practice art, then you will be able to do that thing. I used to write since my first grade, as my father encouraged me to do so. And today, I am constantly able to improve my writing because I keep on writing.

One of my friends too, used to draw very well when he was little, and today he always comes in the first three of the painting competition of the district of Purnea on the occasion of World Environment Day on the 5^th of June. So if you practice from the start, there is no way that art can be a big deal for you to accomplish.