The artist

The “creative emotion” that defines this society is the “embodiment of cosmic Memory”, one that cuts across “all levels at the same time” and “liberates man from the… level that is proper to him.”1The citizen of the open society is a new type who gives themselves to “open creative totality”. Bergson, Deleuze points out, sees in the figures of the artist and the mystic, each of which fabricates new things from past forms and raw matter, the avatars that best capture the nature of this type: [Berger, f12-18]The artist is the creator of art. Plausibly everyone is an artist. 
* See: Artistry; Bergson on the artist; The creator.
* More generally: Creativity; Becoming; Human alteration; Social change; Discipline; Output; Work.
* Related: The mystic.
Category:Social categories
Category:Human types
Category:Art