Tag: creativity

• October 10, 2026

  Paintings: Making Something out of Nothing

  My art colleagues and I are relatively new to grading visual analysis papers. Consequently, there have been many passionate discussions about marking rubrics and the responses we encounter in examination scripts. One particularly memorable disagreement concerned René Magritte’s The Human Condition. A student proposed that behind the easel, which blends almost seamlessly into the landscape, might…
• March 7, 2026

  Art and the More Beautiful Question

  Pablo Picasso once famously said, “Computers are useless. They only give you answers.” The remark may have sounded provocative when it was first made, but Picasso might have been onto something. In a world where computers place almost every form of knowledge at our fingertips, answers have become easier to obtain than ever before. What has become…