Hayakawa has his own definition of creativity including many factors that some people agree or disagree with. There are different people that society grants as creative but individuals like Hayakawa have their own opinions on if a person is actually creative or not. For example, Van Gogh is a very well known artist and he is just assumed to be creative due to his elaborate paintings and he does meet Hayakawa’s creative criteria. He mainly expressed himself with the use of color in his paintings but also he wrote over 800 letters in his lifetime. Van Gogh is a good representation of Hayakawa’s definition of creativity because of his originality, his ability to endure loneliness, and his idle curiosity.
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This would lead to them possibly shunning the creative person or even physically attacking them for having different points of view. For example, Van Gogh talked about how “During the attacks I feel cowardly in the face of pain and suffering… and perhaps it is the moral cowardice itself, which previously I had no desire to cure, that now makes me ear for two, work hard, and limit my relations with the other patients for fear of falling ill again”(“Visit the Museum”). This expressed how he gets attacked and he does not care about curing the fear it causes but to work harder on his art to prove everyone wrong that did not believe in or disagreed with him. Van Gogh regretted how earlier in his life he did not think this way because he “was cowardly and drunk - ill too, but I wasn’t brave”(“Visit the Museum”). But, at the time of him writing these letters he was able to endure loneliness and take chances like how Hayakawa believed a brave person should …show more content…
He expressed in his letters how he went to different places to experience new things and use them when diving into his work. Van Gogh was telling a person in one of his letter that “...you know that I came to the south and threw myself in work for a thousand reasons-looking for a different light, believing that observing nature under a brighter sky might give one a more accurate idea of the way Japanese feel and draw”(“Visit the Museum”). The artist is curious on how the Japanese felt when they drew or painted and he wanted to use this style in his own art. For instance, he needed to know how it felt under the new sun or the brighter sky because without these observations he felt that he would not fully understand the pictures of a fellow artist named Delacroix, technique wise at least. But, looking at this idea of creativity described by Hayakawa it proves that Van Gogh fit into the
The originality in Van Gogh’s art really …show more content…
This would lead to them possibly shunning the creative person or even physically attacking them for having different points of view. For example, Van Gogh talked about how “During the attacks I feel cowardly in the face of pain and suffering… and perhaps it is the moral cowardice itself, which previously I had no desire to cure, that now makes me ear for two, work hard, and limit my relations with the other patients for fear of falling ill again”(“Visit the Museum”). This expressed how he gets attacked and he does not care about curing the fear it causes but to work harder on his art to prove everyone wrong that did not believe in or disagreed with him. Van Gogh regretted how earlier in his life he did not think this way because he “was cowardly and drunk - ill too, but I wasn’t brave”(“Visit the Museum”). But, at the time of him writing these letters he was able to endure loneliness and take chances like how Hayakawa believed a brave person should …show more content…
He expressed in his letters how he went to different places to experience new things and use them when diving into his work. Van Gogh was telling a person in one of his letter that “...you know that I came to the south and threw myself in work for a thousand reasons-looking for a different light, believing that observing nature under a brighter sky might give one a more accurate idea of the way Japanese feel and draw”(“Visit the Museum”). The artist is curious on how the Japanese felt when they drew or painted and he wanted to use this style in his own art. For instance, he needed to know how it felt under the new sun or the brighter sky because without these observations he felt that he would not fully understand the pictures of a fellow artist named Delacroix, technique wise at least. But, looking at this idea of creativity described by Hayakawa it proves that Van Gogh fit into the