Art-O-Gram: What art has to do with individuality and why both are so important

Individuality is one of the magic words of our time. Everyone wants to lead their life particularly individually, and what is actually individuality and how it arises, most thinking people have already asked themselves at some point.

The individual person and his daily life

Everyone wants to live their life "individually", and quite a few people make extraordinary efforts to differentiate themselves from all other people in daily life in order to be or appear.

Of course, the new Ü-Phoney is bought immediately when delivered, the stroll is looking for the latest creations by Gucci or Boss, Moschino, Selected Femme and Sass & Bide, at least for those who can afford it, and the apartment is being lovingly and repeatedly decorated with furniture and accessories that are offered under the keyword "individual living".

Is it really individual?

In most cases, however, some of them are not true in this way, as we want to present ourselves individually in our lives.

Because buying a Ü-Phoney really doesn't have much to do with individuality. More individuality would do our societies really well, further below, initially some thoughts about what individuality is and why the Ü-Phoney certainly does not help us to increase individuality:

What does individuality mean?

The term individuality is derived from the Latin divido = share, separate, split . With the "in" in front of it - Individo - the verb is wrong, so "individual" means that something is undivided, untrolated, unpleasant.

The individual person is therefore simply an undivided person. It already contains the idea of ​​man as a wholeness, and from here it is not far to the reality that every person represents an undivided unit that differs from other people in their uniqueness.

In philosophy, of course, the whole thing is much more likely to know , so philosophers have discussed how individuality has to be outlined and reached since ancient times. Almost every philosopher has developed a completely different idea about how individuality is created and what it means.

Aristotle and Thomas Aquin relied - in a very shorter way - on individualization through matter, Hobbes sees space and time in the formation of individuals, according to Fichte and Hegel, the "self -container of the mind" a person individually.

Philosophy quickly also recognized a fundamental problem with the individuality of people: people are unmistakable in their personal individuality, but on the other hand, the individuality is a feature that is entitled to and is entitled to everyone.

Some philosophers have simply given up over this ambiguity of the concept of individuality to define individuality. Kierkegaard , Schopenhauer and Nietzsche try to shift the formation of individuality into the interior of man, use terms such as self and person, responsibility, self -determination and freedom of will.

Although the training of individuality should not necessarily be subject to free will, but at least creates a result of the training of a personality: "With the same environment, everyone lives in another world." said Arthur Schopenhauer.

According to a widespread epistemological approach, we are only able to grasp a reality formed from individual things and facts; So and only what we perceive is individual.

Psychology and individuality

The psychologists have developed explanations that usually seem a bit more familiar to us: According to a view represented in psychology, the individuality of a person consists of the sum of the peculiarities of his behavior and trade. Of course - the characteristics of every personality, personal interests, attitudes and values, the political, philosophical and religious beliefs of a person, his social behavior and his style of communication and his idea of ​​himself, in all of this is expressed.

Press it out, like the immediate surroundings, which we have influenced by consumer behavior, on which we influence, apartment and garden and clothing, then maybe partially the car and the world of work.

But that does not say anything about how individuality arises. Therefore, a different psychological view of individuality refers to the consciousness of the individual. The individuality of an individual in all its uniqueness can be seen, especially when you look at the interior of man, your condition and his very personal views and his goals.

Also right, but there are other aspects:

Individuality in the community

Regardless of whether it is inward or external - the individuality of a person only manifests itself if the behavior of other people is perceived.

The sociologists deal with the relationships between people with each other, so for them the individuality in the area of ​​tension between individual and community is a big topic. Some social scientists do not put the individual, but the community in the foreground of their considerations, with the conclusion that individuality leads to isolation. This sees others as incorrect evaluation and demands "the rediscovery of personality" from social psychologists and sociologists.

However, they consider the individuality to a group from the point of view of the quality of the ties of the individual. In this explanatory model, complicated terms such as physical identity and physical individuality and psychological existence are worked with psychological identity, the explanation of which would go too far here.

In any case, individuality is defined here as the ability to overcome traditional cultural, traditional and moral borders. An individualized society is the prerequisite for this cosmopolitanism, the individuality must be encouraged to enable such open and solvable group bonds and variable role behavior of individualized personalities in a society.

Individuality thus becomes a positive power in society, in which it becomes the starting platform for a new, free and cross -group communication. With the result that in modern societies, meaningful cooperation would be possible that no longer have anything in common with the cliques business that usually come about with traditional group binding.

These were just a few approaches to the importance of individuality - but from these thoughts mentioned here, it can be clearly concluded why dictatorial rulers have so many problems with individuality and prefer to rely on total (and totalitarian) equal: free communication promotes free thinking, and free thinking promotes individual willingness to make independent decisions, and if people decide and act independently, they are no longer suitable as "state sheep".

Such people will even actively intervene against injustices, because surprisingly, more individuality also results in more empathy, with a stronger feeling for fellow human beings and stronger flair for injustice, more on this.

Why the new Ü-Phoney/designer dress/hipster furniture has nothing to do with individuality

Now you can also explain why the Ü-Phoney and its comrades have nothing to do with individuality:

If you are looking for a device that is very similar to the Ü-Phoney, you get more than 3 billion results-really extremely original! The individual "Ü-Phoney" covers only have around 5 million entries, compared to the number that has just been published, there are really rare products ... (by the way, there are really individual cell phone cases, see e.g. the article "iPhone covers from bamboo").

The best-selling fashion is similarly "individual": For years, the image of the star designer has been overtaken by the (market) reality as an eccentric or exceptionally sensitive artist.

The former front man, the "star of the design brand", has now been rationalized by the big brands almost without exception: Tom Ford is no longer at Gucci , Julien Maccdonald is no longer at Givenchy, Jil Sander is no longer with Jil Sander, Helmut Lang is no longer with Helmut Lang , and Sass & Bide (Sex and the City) no longer belongs to the founder.

The fashion brands leading in the world prefer to rely on teams of several faceless designers, so Moschino z. B. a decade after the death of the company founder doubles his sales. Doesn't matter, should you, at least young designers get a chance? Yes, maybe, but probably only if you understand more of market research than fashion.

Because today the designers work as a product manager (they are called that at Hugo Boss), who do not indulge in the “art of design”, but rather deal with the product that the marketing department wants to see produced by them.

Because this department specifies the features of the product, it analyzed the world market and found out what the collection must look like that will buy most customers - down to the finest details, the colors, fabric qualities and cuts.

Incidentally, the prices are also determined here whether they pay 50,- or 600 euros for a dress (cell phone, furniture) or 600 euros, depends less on these global corporations on whether the devices actually differ from quality. But the marketing department found that they will spend 600 euros for this dress (cell phone, furniture, furniture), and even have doubts about the quality if it were offered cheaper.

As a "adult man", they probably say that all of this is only concerned with the teenagers, they themselves would attach more importance to the design of the personal environment than on cell phones and fashion. Oh, the individual furniture !

The search for "individual living" results in "only" almost 6 million results, "individual cupboards" still bring almost 4 million results, "individual furniture" has over 3 million, "individuality + living" it brings to over 2 million and "individual living" is just below (the large furniture chains with the cheap offers are always in front).

Apparently this is not really about products that are ideal for emphasizing the uniqueness of a person. The other companions of true individuality, free communication, free thinking and a free decision are not one of the characteristics of the relationship with the customer, which the world companies leading here in sales value.

Free communication between the contracting parties does not exist with the most sought -after consumer goods. "Buy or die!" is the seller's motto in the "Shop", which has no more powers than to reach the product over the counter and to collect the money.

Friss or die! "

It was called for the first time in the Simplicissimus , the first German adventure novel, and the sentence was pronounced by Oliver, the thief, who wants to justify his raids and his non -existent conscience ...

Free thinking is probably not in demand either, otherwise there would certainly be no more companies that make products that become an empty battery for the expensive repair case, and no customers who buy such products. Do you say that on the company side happens intentionally? Can't be, that would be fraud!

Only the free decision that remains. The sad thing, however, is that quite a few people have apparently forgotten to make this free decision.

It is really time for a little more individuality ...

More individuality is good for the individual

Actually, the skills for building up a self -determined individuality with birth are put into our cradle. Psychology and pedagogy today assume that the first steps to develop a personal individuality in the recognition of the limits of other individuals and the resulting access to their own limits lies.

That is why they also assume that we are equipped with natural empathy from birth, because the presence of empathy is unconditional prerequisite if a child opens up to perceive borders. Only if a child can approach other individuals emphatically, i.e. sensitive, sensitive, sensitive and soft -hearted, will it have the motivation to actually do this approach.

All of these sensations and properties are created in the child and are practiced to others with every approach, and if the environment is precisely this approximation against mirrors T, a stable person will develop trustingly. Such a person can achieve high individual qualities, he can communicate excellently with others, he can approach a caregiver as well as to a group of people.

According to these psychologists and educators, far too many people among us do not come to enjoy the undisturbed training of these empathy and individuality that is so important for human coexistence. Because these qualities can only develop in a fear -free environment, and this fear -free environment is far too few people in their development time.

More individuality is good for all of us

We all would have something of it if we would promote these properties in children through fear -free education and if we would constantly strive for the care of these properties: individuality is the basis for creativity, motivation and for innovative ability , even for general social skills in dealing with each other.

Suppression of individuality, regardless of whether it is caused by a traditionally shaped education or by a inhumane work environment, has quite serious consequences:

Man becomes less emphatic, i.e. generally less sensitive and less compassionate, it becomes selfish. And this is not an advantage, as can still be heard frequently, as is still often heard from (hard -boiled business people), but on the contrary, with a high probability, has resulted in individual unsuccessfulness at some point in life.

In addition, people who are constantly circumcised in their individuality increases the individual willingness to aggress, which can be clearly felt in our cities today.

Individuality can be practiced

Even if the individuality of many people had to springs significantly in the course of their upbringing, it is, as depicted, actually an unconditional part of our being. Which can be brought back to life and should also be awakened - we can even get sick if we are disturbed in our individuality, with some psychiatric diseases there are signs of an individuality disorder an integral part of the diagnosis.

Individuality can be brought to life, but certainly not by buying exactly the same stuff that millions others buy. However, you can also surround yourself in your environment with really individual things, and numerous owners of small companies would be enthusiastic if you turned to you and your hand -made products.

Or they give up the idea of ​​expressing and buying increased individuality in everything they do and simply limited themselves in some areas of their lives to not acquire any individual, but rather excellent, well -fitting and good -looking articles (which means that we would then be back to the small companies, for which this is usually more guaranteed than in mass production).

This releases special areas of life in which you can really take care of individuality. And with that we have finally reached art - in the most original form, it offers you the opportunity to produce and express individuality.

You can buy art from an artist who has produced this works of art only once and unique. You can make art in many ways and in this way you can really make your technology/clothing/apartment an individual event.

Kunstplaza would like to (again) discover and explain her individuality on both ways, not only through this article about art + individuality.

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If you become creative, you have the courage for individuality!

Lina cream

Passionate author with lively art interest

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