Creativity – The Drivers, Inhibitors & The Downside

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all it’s students – Hector Berlios  1856 We should use our time wisely, it is a limited asset, and as we grow older it sort of becomes a privilege. Throughout history one can find great examples of disruption. Ideas that changed the world forever. Ideas that…

Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ – A Renaissance MasterPiece

The Renaissance is still thought of as the rebirth of art. It is a scholarly accepted view that the Renaissance was one of  the great creative periods of progressive development. One of the masterpieces of the Renaissance was The Last Supper, a late 15th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci and currently located in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy….

Al-Ujb – The Satanic Trait of Self Conceit

Purification of the Nafs is the greatest jihad. We all work so hard in our lives for ourselves and our families, thinking Insha’Allah one day we shall enter paradise. However there is one thing that can stop us from entering this dream destination. Self-conceit The greatest example of self-conceit in art is perhaps Narcissus. Narcissus was…

Music’s Influence on Art & Design

(The context of this article is conscious/subconscious influence of music on art/design with respect to Wassily Kandinksy & Arnold Schoenberg. The content should not be taken as a science, but rather an opinion, from real working knowledge of creative process and everyday creative development) The common factor between music and painting is that they are…