The Effects Childhood has on a persons creativity

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The effects childhood has on a persons creativity is something I can relate to personally. When I was five my mother died of cancer, I was already really interested in art but I think my interest grew a lot more. I found drawing and painting theraputic and grew fonder of beaing creative. I think my childhood has had a huge affect on my creativity. Also the fact that my family background has a lot of interesting history to it. My father is Huingarian and moved from Hungary to England when he was a child with his parents and two brothers. When he was around five his parents took him and his brothers to Cameroon in Africa as his father was a doctor over there. My father is really well educated he went to university at the age of 17 to study chemical engineering at Imperial College London, he has since been working successfully ever since all over the world. HE loves to travel and is interested in other cultures and can speak many different languages, this has really worn off on me. I am really interested in other cultures and I think they influence my work heavily. My mother was born in Canada and moved to England when she was a young child, her father was french and her mother Canadian. My mother loved art and fashion and I think this is the main reason I chose to study fashion as she was such an inspiration to me. My childhood has had a huge effect on myself as I think it does with most people, I would not be who I am today if my mother was still alive. There has been a lot of research into the effects childhood has on a persons creativity. It is apparent in a lot of artists work that childhood can affect a person so much. "This man, nearly ninety when he painted these pictures, disregarded all convention as well as his own technical ability and attained what he had wished for all his life; the spontaneity and freedom of a child, which his perfectionism robbed him

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