Five things to do when appreciating creativity
Posted on July 12, 2007, by dazzer67, under creative exercises, inspiration.
How often do you take the time to really look at, listen to, or understand a good piece of creative work? We can find so much inspiration from other people but it is rare that we actually delve into why the ‘piece’ is creative and how that can help us in our creative journey. Well here are a couple of things to bear in mind to aid us when we do decide to look a little deeper.
- What makes this piece original? Has the piece mixed two different genres, has it pushed the boundaries further than the traditional medium? Try and ask yourself these and similar questions and discover why and how creativity was used.
- What has the creative put in? Moving on from the first question you need to look for what has been added to the piece that makes it different. These are the constituent parts of the piece. You’ve looked at the whole, now look at the pieces.
- What has the creative left out? Space is equally important, less is more, so they say, and it is the same in art, in all its forms. The pieces that the creative has left out are as important as what the creative put in.
- How would you have expressed the idea? This isn’t about how you would improve what has been done, but it could easily end up that way. What you need to do here is take the end result (what the ‘piece’ says to you) and think about how you would have expressed that.
- What would this look like in another medium? The book is always different from the film. The play is always different from the film. The live performance is always different from the recorded version. What if you were to think about what you were analyzing in a different medium. What would that image look like as a piece of prose? What would that story sound like as a song?
Give your creative energy a boost by taking note of what other creative pieces there are surrounding us everyday.
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