Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 15. Thesis conclusions This research demonstrates that creativity is a natural process that is bound into many aspects of life. Rather than being a...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 14.4 Conclusions of the experiment I conclude from this workshop that audiences, even those who are not artists, were receptive to a creative process...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 14.3 The workshop experiment As participants were arriving they all apologised for ‘not being creative’, and suggested that they ‘do not engage much in...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 14.2 The structure of the guidance I designed a guided ‘journey’ focusing on three main themes that I had covered in my research and wanted to examine...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 14.1 Practical preparations The Art House gallery/café in Southampton was chosen as the venue, as it is conveniently located in the city centre, it...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 14. Testing the conclusion in practice – a participatory art workshop experiment ‘The Collective Hearts’ In order to examine how the thesis findings...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 13. Conclusion of body chapters 10-12 Observing the process of creating art works for this research, as well as reflecting on artists in the interviews...
Chapter 1 (Bereshit). With Natalie Dekel. We’re going to learn Torah, which is a Jewish Book of scriptures. And the most important thing is: it’s the human experience of being spiritual in the human body. Judaism believes that (it’s not a religion;...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 12.3 Summary of chapter 12 The act of application involves experiencing reality in a way that sharpens the sense of perception of beauty. With the...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 12.2 Space With a sense of appreciation of the environment, artists allow the observed reality with its beauty to form a part of the artist’s own...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 12.1 Place Artists are inspired to create their work in places, such as nature, cities, galleries and people’s homes. However, artists seem to have a...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 12. Application With the artistic ideas ready to be applied, the artist allows the external reality to affect the final shaping of the work, in a...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 11.3 Summary of chapter 11 I conclude from the above that artists’ experiences are given initial boundaries within abstract shapes that allow for the...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 11.2 Movement The need to express inner purity in art work sees the artists using vivid and transparent colours as a mean to create intense visible...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 11.1 Shape The artistic experiences that I examined are manifested from the inner reality and to the external environment through shapes and colours....
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 11. Internalisation Following the process of acknowledging and producing the impression of words and images, the artist then moves to a process of...
Chapter 1 (Bereshit), verse 1-8. With Gil Dekel. Gil: We’re going to look at Tanakh (Tanach). What is Tanakh? Yael: The Holy Text. Gil: Torah Navi’im K’Ttuvim: Taf, Nun, Khaf. Together we call it Tanach תנך. Chapter Bereshit; what does Bereshit mean?...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 10.4 Summary of chapter 10 Carl Jung (1972: 21–23) asserts that there are unconscious aspects to the perception of reality through the senses. The...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 10.3 Acknowledging With heightened emotions and an urge to create comes a process of acknowledgement, where the artist makes an intuitive response to...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 10.2 Feeling Once artists open up to the inner voice, they seem to attach to it an emotion or a specific feeling, which makes the experience specific...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 10.1 Sensing Noticing that something exists, or sensing it, is an initial experience in the artistic process. Inner voice / listening / collective...
Inspiration: a functional approach to creative practice. PhD thesis in Art, Design & Media, by Gil Dekel. 10. Stimulation The artists that I have studied indicate that they begin the process of creating art with an urge to create. The initial experience of...
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