Creativity / Imagination: To be an artist, one has to be creative
and imaginative
and produce beauty out of raw
materials (e.g., painters use blank canvas,
colors,
and brushes to create chef - d'oeuvres; sculptors form beautiful
and inspiring pieces out of a variety of
materials, some create masterpieces out of wood logs
and chain saws; fashion designers design couture from unique fabrics
and interesting patterns; musicians compose melodies from the alphabet of music; poets invent impactful stories out of simple words, etc.).
Images (clockwise from top left): Dress (detail), c. 1845, American, Silk, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Elizabeth J. Ratmond, 1965.219 A, B; E.B. Kellogg
and E.C. Kellogg, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1845,
Color lithograph, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gift of James Junius Goodwin, 1935.434; House of Coniglio (Beverley Coniglio, American, born 1972), Bee - Baby necklace, 2015, Designed by House of Coniglio, Found
materials including watch, ceramic doll, rhinestones,
and gold - filled
chain, Collection of House of Coniglio; Dress with evening bodice (detail), c. 1850, American, Silk, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Matta Grimm Lacey, 1976.33 B, C