Posts about creative freedom

Xu Wei’s Ming Dynasty painting

China’s Poets

Xu Wei’s ink wash painting from the Ming Dynasty, featuring a poem in Chinese at the top[…]

Oscar Wilde

Purity Police

Oscar Wilde, a brilliant creative voice constrained by Victorian moral strictures. Silencing art blinds society to change.[…]

Raimon’s Catalan music and Joan Miró’s cover art

Franco’s Spain

Album cover for Quan L’aigua Es Queix by Catalan singer-songwriter Raimon, featuring artwork by Joan Miró, 1979.[…]

Plattenbau Housing in East Germany

Behind the Wall

Uniform Plattenbau blocks reveal how state-directed design limited individual and creative expression. Societies that control creativity risk[…]

Charles “Buddy” Bolden

Funky Butt

The only known photo of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (second from left) with his band, circa 1905. Courtesy[…]

Kazimir Malevich

Black Square

Kazimir Malevich, most likely at the Museum of Artistic Culture, Petrograd, 1924. Public domain, via monoskop.org. The[…]

Langston Hughes

The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes, photographed in Kodachrome by Carl Van Vechten, 1936. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library.[…]

Georgia O’Keeffe

Creative Stubbornness

Georgia O’Keeffe, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, ca. 1920–1922. Courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, Open Content Program.[…]

Photographing paintings in a museum

Share one piece of art

One Small Act of Creative Courage You Can Take Today What You Can Do Right Now Here’s[…]

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