Spontaneous Re-Creativity

Elliott discusses the difference between creativity and spontaneous originality, saying that when children have outburts of what we think is creativity ("composing" something on the piano at age 2--which is usually just playing random notes) it is really just spontaneous activity. But, is this not what children need to feel the freedom to play, to make music, to become creative? They need an outpour.

My question is--there are so many artists that throw globs of paint on a canvas in dots and call it art. And people render this as creativity. And yet, my niece made a painting just like this the other day that is hanging on my fridge. Is this art? And is she rendering her creativity? Not according to Elliott. She's just letting out her spontaneous originality. Is it the idea of the institution that is deciding that the globs of paint on the canvas is the result of a creative flow process?

Maybe Elliott should talk to Duchamp about the "Urinal" to see if that is an outpour of creativity (or, recreativity). Yikes.