ABSTRACT
An enormous confusion reigns about cultural diversity, which has obscured both the question of its necessity to society and of its relationship to creativity. The passage of diversity from culture to art involves a complex intellectual process which occurs when the individual imagination is relatively free both from the demands of society and the culture of which art is a specific formation and expression. It is therefore requisite to separate the process of creativity from what already exists within society, either as cultural heritage or a multiplicity of cultural traditions. The increase in travel and speed of communication, facilitated by the rise of modern science and technologies since the Renaissance, has created a constant flow of ideas between peoples, nations and cultures across the world. The interrelationship of many world cultures in European modernism is extremely complex and problematic.
