Towards a methodology of the creative process and its validation into the field of academic research

Abstract

This paper examines the possibility of designing a methodology of the creative process. It comes after a wider research that was conducted within the context of the MA on Research on Art and Creation of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. The hypothesis that we aim to develop is that it is possible to trace a methodology of the artistic creation by comparing several study cases with the reflection of artists on their own creative process. This process is very often bound to the idea of intuition. The commonly assumed awareness of intuition as a concept entwined with the myth of the creative genius is to be questioned here. We will expose the terms that define the idea of research into the academic field. Â To achieve this, we will begin by using an interview with the artist Soledad Sevilla. Our starting point is the lack of a specific terminology that could define the meaning of researching on art. We will contrast this interview with another one with the biologist Cristina Pujades, a member of the project Grid_Spinoza. Our objective is to show some of the differences and confluences in both types of research, artistic and scientific, to, as far as we are able, clarify the specific processes and terminology of both. Having found similar terms in these two fields, we believe that artistic research is very likely to be validated from an academic point of view. We expect to come to a conclusion about the specificity of the artistic research, in order to find a place for it within the conventions of what is understood as academic context, that is to say, of the research practices in science.

Keywords

• Arte contemporáneo
• proceso creativo
• metodología
• investigación