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1. Select an individual – an artist, scientist, musician, writer, or other creative figure – and discuss his or her creative process. You should use primary materials, interviews, and secondary works to support your ideas. What factors contributed to their creative success? Can you identify any particular social or personal elements that may have been important?
2. Following the same format as above, select an artistic movement or group of individuals known for a distinctive style or type of creative work. This could also be an academic discipline. Describe the creative process as it applies to this group, discipline, or artistic movement.
3. Pick a historical period – Ancient Greece, Qing China, Modernism, the Renaissance - and describe the creative forces at work in that period. What factors helped to shape the creative production during that particular period?
4. Identify and discuss the latest research on creativity. What are the most recent ideas concerning the development and nature of creativity, and what are the implications of these findings?
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MODERNISM
Modernism
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MODERNISM
MODERNISM
Modernism is a critical construct developed post World War II. Robate (2013) describes
modernism as a modern process, thoughts or practices. More so it was a revolt of cultural
tendencies, political movements, artistic and farfetched changes to the western in the 19th and
20th century both late and early respectively (DiPietro, 2006). Further, he posits that modernism
affirms human’s power to create deconstruct, reshape and improve their environment. Such
changes are fueled by technology, scientific knowledge, and practical experimentation. Other
than that, Tate (2013) posits that modernism is both optimistic and progressive.
Modernism is characterized by different reforms of culture in architecture and art, literature,
applied arts and music. Modernism came into the picture to challenge the status quo of cultural
tendencies regarding overall progress. Therefore, the process fueled the re-engineering of every
aspect of existence from philosophy to commerce. In so doing, anything that was concluded to
be dragging progress was replaced with new elements hence the progressive and optimistic
nature of modernism.
DiPietro in his masterpiece of Shakespeare and modernism simplifies modernism by
arguing that essentially the new realities of the mechanized and industrial age were looming and
permanent hence people should change their worldview to adhere to the fact that the new was the
same as the good, the beautiful and the true. In the spirit of embracing the present and change
modernism is backed by the literature of prominent scholars who were against historical
tendencies and academics. The scholars argued that the traditional forms of architecture, religion
faith/belief, literature,...
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