Above and Beyond with Creativity and Innovation

Above and Beyond with Creativity and Innovation — page 5
m HISTORY The Wheels Are Turning Art Imitates Life People have always created and innovated Most ancient cultures did not view wheels or to meet their needs and solve their problems other innovations as acts of creation That The wheel was one of the first great means they felt the wheel had already been innovations It was invented in Mesopotamia created by the gods and they had simply around 3500 B C E and was first used to discovered it They believed that people could make pottery It was not until 300 years later imitate life but they could not create anything however that some creative person thought new only gods had the power to do that Ancient to use it in a different way as a wooden Roman and Greek artists looked to the Muses wheel on a cart and really got things rolling for inspiration the goddesses in mythology who inspired art literature and science Today The inventio people use the term muse to refer to someone Pn of who inspires them to be creative and the word museum is derived from that word Renaissance Men and women Ideas about creativity did not change until a period in the 1500s called the Renaissance in Europe During that period there was new interest in art science architecture and literature The work of individual creators and innovators began to be valued Painters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo became famous as artists but they also invented machines wrote poetry studied mathematics and figured out how the body works The work of creative women such as the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola also began to be recognized during this