Title: THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN VISUAL ARTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Abstract: “Creativity is the ability to produce new and original ideas and things; inventiveness”, Uzoagba, 2000. Creativity is constructive, active and central to, but not limited to Visual Arts. It involves improvement through questioning, inquiring, searching, manipulating, and experimenting to find out the truth. Also, it is important to stress that creativity is productive, hence, this paper aims at revealing the active and productive role of creativity for development. It may be considered as a kind of fortress of potentialities applied for individual and societal development. In this paper, the nature of creativity, resources that aid creativity, and some developmental accomplishments that underpin the role of creativity are presented. It is concluded that creativity applied by individuals results in developmental triumphs/accomplishments. For this reason, it is recommended that Government and the individual should strive towards total development through creativity.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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