Week 10 | Magnum Opus

Art Brainiacs. Many scientists argued the creative solvers exhibited major activity in the regions of our brain's right hemisphere. 

It takes a lot of hard work to create a single masterpiece but squeezing your own creative juices is another story.

Most of the today’s great artists in any form of art frequently degrade their own work by not taking the lead to inform the public about what it really takes to produce it. I notice that most people in some art show, museum or entertainment keep on asking, “So, how long did it take you to make that?” Usually, it’s a blameless question and the person asking is just curious how long it takes a professional to create something they can’t imagine creating themselves. Sometimes, though, the question isn’t so blameless. Sometimes it’s a criticism of an artist’s work. It’s meant as an underhanded way to say, “That’s so simple. I could have made that myself in an hour.” Discourteous, no doubt, but people do ask. Personally, I appreciate things and criticize in two ways: aesthetically and technically. Applying what I have learned to create beautiful things is like knowing how an art could be defined as art itself, a hungry imagination that could lead to a great masterwork. 

I consider creativity as a process. When I was a little kid, I am fond of doing doodle in our wall. The sketches of the sun, trees and mountains filled the other corner of our room that’s why my mom got angry as she hardly wiped out my masterpiece. I believe that creativity is in our system. It’s like the air that we breathe and water that we drink. It reflects a part of who we are yet most of us don’t appreciate this. A simple thing like participating in poster-making contests, writing poems and stories and watching films are my perfect formula to squeeze my creative juices. The rest comes out naturally. I used to live in a creative and artful life. I love beautiful things --paintings, anime, films and alike. They are my inspiration to make the masterpieces of my own knowing that it's not something to push but to live up. Creativity is an endless process and now, I'm still learning to bring out the best in the world.

*Premise: How to Enhance Creativity