one of my latter comix pieces "stop the hate" was inspired by negative ideas but portrayed in an sort of oxymoronic way.
another thing that many artists who use this negative force will say-- is that they are transferring the 'negative' force onto the paper, thus cleansing it from their bodies/minds/spirits.
Picasso drew some of the most amazing art, and some of the most abstract art as well. one of his pieces, i dont quite remember the name ( "devil women" or something like that) was of three irregularly shaped (twisted) evil looking women-- which picasso said he drew to rid his mind of these ugly women who had screwed up his life (he had an STD) and afterwards he stopped having nightmares of them or something.
truly another world, this "creativity" !!
im not really understanding the difference they are saying between "creativity" and "day-by-day creativity" is the latter supposed to mean "going thru the motions" ? if so, i dont think thats creativity. thats mediocracy.
i do agree with the article's statements :
"money does not foster creativity" and neither does deadlines.
z
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"What we find, in essence, is that positive feelings - joy, love - are positively related to creativity, and the negative emotions - anger, fear, sadness - are negatively related to day-by-day creativity," says Amabile, noting that these findings run counter to the popular "tortured artist" image. She notes that there are a few exceptional circumstances where fear and anger seem to stimulate creativity, but they're rare.
It's one of those things that is kind of _obvious_, but someone has finally done the research to prove it.
Kathy
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