Are Artists wiser than we think?

The complexity of Picasso’s Minotauromachy” of 1935 foreshadows time, our time. We observe the tenuous light of the young girl holding a candle to show the way and flowers, in the other hand as, perhaps, an offering of peace. These images find their way into contemporary times, our time, in which the enemy is seen as blind, powerful and brutish. Ben Okri, however, invites us to consider the enigma of the Minotaur in his beautifully told short story, Creativity and the Minotaur. It is one of several, in his recent book – A Way of Being Free. I wonder, as I begin each day searching for some reason, truth and beauty in all that surrounds and is within, if Okri is right in thinking that “True artists are wiser than we think.”