HART780 Benchmark 3cr

In one section of the course we will focus on our own personal history of creativity, as well as on recent theories of creativity. We will explore this topic from a practical, psychological, and philosophical point of view. In investigating individual characteristics of creativity, we will focus on creativity as an ongoing, multidimensional activity.

We will also investigate the history of the specific visual language each of us has chosen to engage in. This “influence” component includes looking at the work of other contemporary practitioners. We will focus on two artists (and an architect) to begin with, in order to lay a foundation for our approach: the painters Neo Rauch and Beatriz Milhazes (and the architect
Jean Nouvel.) These three artists are in different ways addressing contemporary issues. The goal for this investigation is not only to sharpen attention and critical analysis, but to build vocabulary and framework for the exploration of our own work.