The creative artistry of artists in their 90s

Abstract

This study talks about the creative artistic creation by non professional elder artists who reached 90 years old. This article examines the artistic production of amateur older citizens who have reached and gone beyond their 90th year. Those elders, only due to their advanced age, are generally put aside in reason of doubts about their lucidity and capacity of production. Due to advanced age, this group is often put aside, as less sound of mind and less productive than their younger peers. Thus, it is possible to affirm that the interviewed persons of this job resisted to the social conception of oldness, especially those who are years old. This article thus concludes that the interviewed subjects were resilient to being labeled “too old”. For the reflection of these persons and their work it was necessary to investigate the meaning of being old in the society of nowadays, the nature of the artistic production and the exercise of creation. As a reflective tool for the subjects and their artistic production, it was necessary to investigate the meaning of being old in today’s society, the nature of artistic production, and the process of artistic creation. The direct contact with the interviewed elderly and their work afforded to enter in their universe, their subjectiviness and the particular way they find to deal with the reality of oldness The direct contact with these people and their work allowed the author to enter their subjective universe and the particular way they deal with the concept of old age.. This study proposes to show the individuality of well successful oldness based on creative activities. This article’s proposition is to demonstrate the individualization of successful older people based on their artistic production.