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What is art as a whole, and specifically creative art? What is the difference between an art form and a craft? And what is the purpose of a work of art? What is the process through which, by the laws of creativity, the Complex emerges from the Simple, the Whole from its parts, or a new quality emerges in the end product (result)? To this day there is no one specific answer to these questions. As a result, there is an absence of a general theory of creativity in modern scientific knowledge, as well as an absence of such fundamental categories as Purpose, Goal, a Whole. One thing is obvious: our existing knowledge about the world does not include some very important type of relation, which determines the very heart, and the essence of the creative process. So, what is this essence? One of the most general definitions of creativity is as follows: «Creativity is the process of solving a problem which gives rise to a new quality, and a new result».