Assignment 2

 Four domains of creativity:

Fluency
Generating many ideas. Such as a person that can speak in another language, they would be able to generate many ideas in that language. To be creative one must be able to generate many ideas in their art form. For example I am a dancer to be creative and fluent in my art form I should know many different forms of dance to create new and innovative choreography.

The below pictures show the fluency of George Balanchine in his choreography. He generated many different ideas to create many different ballets.

Flexibility
Generating different types of ideas or ideas from different perspectives. So to be flexible as a dancer and an artist my choreography should not all look alike, I should approach my choreography from different perspectives with different ideas to pull form to be truly creative.

Below are pictures from Alvin Ailey's Revelations, Ailey was flexible in creating this master piece because he pulled from many different ideas.


Originality
Generating unusual ideas. So to be creative my choreography should defiantly be original. To be considered creative it should be new and fresh, this creative outlook could also spark some controversy, which would be great to get dialogue going. Also in the dance world plagiarism exist. Certain choreographers have trust in which you must get permission to perform their choreography. I think originality is very important when it comes to creativity. Creating something that has never been seen before.

Below is a picture from USC student showcase, this piece of choreography was created by Juliana Jordan a senior dance major. This is an example of originality she generate new and unusual ideas to create this piece Cry to Dream Again.


Elaboration
Adding to ideas to improve them. Once I have created choreography to go back and readjust, make some changes to improve the idea. Or even after it has been performed going back and changing my ideas is an example of elaboration.

Feldman Method of Art Criticism:

Describe
Describing what you see. What are the physical elements present. Describing would be as if I was explaining this to a friend over the phone I want to be specific and detail so the can conceive a mental picture. Maybe initial emotion felt.

Analyze
Gather more information. Identifying the relationships to what you saw. Explaining how the work is organized. Use elements of art and principals of design to describe.

Interpret

What is the artist saying to me? Looking for the meaning. Explain the meaning of

mood or the work.

Is this a successful work of art? Does it have merit? Rank the artwork by comparing

it with others like it. But I do have a personal issue with this one, if art is really subjective art then who is someone to judge my work of art. What makes it good? If I am being creative then this is an original piece of work. I do not really think you can say whether a piece of art is successful or not, that would be dependent on the artist

Taylor Ferguson
Judge or Evaluate

Assignment #1 Biographical Statement

1. Dance is my passion and I love to share this art with others, this is one of the reasons why I dance to share with others. I enjoy contemporary dance and ballet, not only performing but choreographing on my students as well as myself. 2. While I do enjoy performing arts, my visual art skills are less polished. In high school I was really into photography and had to take visual arts 1 to progress to photography. I have made drawings and paintings before but never a sculpture.3. I enjoy going to the High Museum in Atlanta, the last time I went was with my sister over the Christmas break. I cannot recall the last time I visited a gallery or artist studio. 4. Dance has opened other avenues of performance for me, in high school I participated in many musicals and plays as a back up dancer, but I have never had the opportunity to participate in an Opera or art film. 5. I am taking this class as a requirement for my dance education major. 6.I learn best in environments that are less stressful environments. I work well if there is music playing in the background too, does not matter what kind honestly, classical, hip hop, r&b does not really matter. 7.I have defiantly been moved by the arts, they have inspired and provoked emotions, as well sparked creative thinking processes. The arts have give me motivation in my everyday life and has allowed me an outlet for my frustrations. 8.I am really inspired by movement,and my movement I mean life within an art form, a painting can have movement within it, music has movement throughout it. Defying and overcoming odds is also very inspirational to me. I am inspired by the potential of greatness. 9. Art is "a medium of expression where individuals and culture come together. It is the product of human creativity. A human endeavor with meaning beyond simple description." "Art effects the senses or emotions it is a process or product that encompasses a diverse range of human activity."


10. Art is movies, music, video games, comics as well as television they all reflect the culture and the society from which the emerged from. They all take creativity and a process that touches on multiple intelligences. 11. No can decide what good art is, art is defined in the eye of the beholder. Who am I to say that something is not good. While some art wavers on obscenity and good art no one can really determine if it is good or not. 12. When I debate music or movies with my friends the critical elements that I look for whether it provoked a thought process, if it made me think.13. The best movie of last year I guess I would have to say "The Black Swan" not as a dance movie, because of the stereotypical anorexic dancer but because of the psychological approach to it. The movie displays that  we can be our own worst enemy. I am not a fan of dance movies and do not really think that it holds weight as a dance movie. 14. I honestly do not know what a art film is, I am assuming that it is a film that displays its plot mostly through various mediums of art.
15. Currently in my MP3 player is Usher More.


Taylor Ferguson