The Effect of Experience on Public Art and Urban Sculpture Audiences’ Creativity

The public art term is the work of arts presented in public places to access for ordinary people and audiences, and also it tends to communicate and contribute to people and public audiences. Public art will have positive consequences for the audience due to its direct communication with the audience. One of the subsets of public art is urban sculptures settled in public and busy places, and they are converted to social structures. The present study intends to examine the relationship between urban sculptures as a factor for teaching creativity to general public based on the audience’s direct experience by using descriptive-analytical method and referring to the library documents, and answers this question: What is the relationship between transmitting and teaching creativity to the general audience, in light of the experience contrasting public art? The relationship between the audience and work of art can increase the audience’s understanding, awareness, and creativity; today it is believed that creativity is considered as the basic essence of all social processes. In this regard, the education theory of John Dewey, the American theorist and philosopher, was used. Findings and results of the research prove that if experience arouses curiosity, the audience’s initiative will strengthens and a motivating force will created which leads to the emergence and learning creativity; this will expand the scope of the audience’s imagination. The present paper is about the sculptures installed in the city of Padideh Shandiz, and represent as a creative element in the public space and in relation to the general audience.