O ODDZIAŁYWANIU SZTUKI I TWÓRCZYM POTENCJALE NIEZADOWOLENIA
ON THE INFLUENCE OF ART AND THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF DISSATISFACTION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to attempt to reflect on the impact of art on the processes of creative transformations of life, mainly from a hermeneutic-phenomenological perspective. The issue seems important, if only because of the discrepancy between theory and practice in the perception of art and creativity. While art is theoretically attributed with important functions, such as the ability to transform human life or shape the vision of the world, in practice artistic activities are often trivialised and their connections with broadly understood creative thought processes and life transformations are not noticed. As if there were no connections between art and broadly understood creativity or there were no connections between them and other matters important to man. This problem seems to be close to those who connect art and artistic creativity with educational activity. Here we can mention art educators, aesthetic educators, art educators or art therapists. Their work, according to Rudolf Arnheim (2013), is often marginalised, and artistic activities are treated as entertainment and pleasure, not requiring intellectual engagement. Meanwhile, acquiring creative experiences is a complex and to some extent unpleasant process, requiring the abandonment of self-satisfaction and opening up to new things, which involves the need to expand knowledge and disappointment. In this approach, it seems particularly important to analyse the meaning of "experience" and the issue of turning towards basic questions and a sense of dissatisfaction. The above aspects can constitute the basis for creative "transformations of the spirit" that resonate with the world of art.

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