The goal of Creativity

Raghida Choucair
Comp 227
Journal#5
10/26/09

Purpose of Art

Mr. Vik Muniz started with his definition of creation and creativity. He defined creation as “un-graspable, or even pointless.” On the other side, he described creativity as something has great meaning: “creativity is always meaningful.” He used the picture of a dog with a chicken on his hindquarters and said that creation put the dog in the picture while creativity made the viewer imagined that there was a chicken on the dog’s hindquarters.
Vik believed that the creativity comes after causality. He stated that he came to America because he was shot in his native country Brazil. He tried to entertain his viewer by the way he told his story: “and that's very -the basic reason I'm talking to you here today because I got shot”.
He went over his pictures and handcrafts to explain what encouraged him to create each one. There was a story behind each picture. He showed us clown skull, rocking podium, pre-Columbian coffeemaker, and the half tombstone. He made some elegant stuff with white cotton and he created arts from threads, chocolate, dust, and colors.
He ended his talk-show by differentiating between computers and arts. Also, he talked about the theater and the actors’ role, then about visual illusion.
In only 15 minutes, Vik touched many important issues. First, he differentiated between creation and creativity. Second, he said that creativity generated by motivations. Third, he explained his viewpoint about life and fate: “if I was born in Monterey, probably I would be in Brazil.” Fourth, he presented his ideas in sarcastic way. For instance he made fun of marketing people: “advertising people do that all the time.” Fifth, he talked about the history of drawing and the drawings progress by the time. Sixth, he drew a demarcation line between science represented by the computer colors and the arts: “millions of colors in it… is who counted it?” Seventh, he defined the role of actors in a theater. Finally, he talked about the visual illusion and he defined it as the measure of your own belief of how much you want to be fooled.
I disagree with Vik in some points about the art and creativity; I think the purpose of art is to be creative with no limitation about what materials used. Art is a talent with no stimulation to draw and create. You do not need to be under a pressure to create or to draw. It is just a goal to express your views in the life.