An artist with a creative imagination. A note

An artist with a creative imagination. A note.


A man was imprisoned for 15 years (it happened abroad).

Then he was exchanged for a girl-basketball player. She was imprisoned in this country.

The basketball player went to her country, and the man came back home.

His wife was waiting for him here – she is a creative person, she graduated from a college named after Stieglitz; in past it was the college named after Mukhina. (Do not confuse Stieglitz with a similar surname).

Today, they both (the man and his wife) came on the radio station (to two radio journalists) to tell how this man discovered his creative abilities and began to paint inside the walls of penitentiary institutions.

"This is interesting," I think. "Now he will tell listeners something new about the psychology of creativity!"

His artworks, as I understood it, he was sending here (out of penitentiary institutions), his wife did exhibitions or something like exhibitions.

She gives examples…

In general, exhibitions are costs …

Her husband joins the conversation. He is now (after the exhibitions) a recognized artist (a member of the Union of Artists? It seems that he is, also, a member of some parliament of (in) some subject of Federation?).

He is grateful for different people (they helped to held exhibitions): he enumerates names and surnames. Among these names and surnames is the leader of one of the factions.

He's a likable person: some female journalists came to interview him, and he made signs of attention to them.

A nice, sincere man! Now one of his former comrades reproaches him for a flyings on private planes: such behavior is distancing this person from those (ordinary) people who plan to "join the party."

While I'm thinking about the story with the pretty female journalists, the radio interview is coming to an end.

I don't give up hope of hearing something new about the psychology of creativity.

Suddenly, the man who was exchanged for a girl-basketball player shows increased energy. Is he talking about attacks on European countries, on those places where weapons are manufactured (?). Then, he issues the idea of a tactical nuclear weapon test explosions - over several European capitals. According to him, the effect will come when "their" electronic devices will turn off (in these capitals).

The radio-interview ends. Where is the new knowledge about the psychology of creativity?

Two radio journalists politely say goodbye to the star-studded creative couple. These two radio journalists don’t comment the dreams of tactical nuclear weapon test explosions over several European capitals (to massively disable electronic devices – so that "they" would "understand").

Who gives him creative ideas? It's unlikely that it's this nice, sincere man – the life-lover who showed signs of attention to pretty female journalists and who now flies on private planes (distancing himself from sincere people who "join the party")?

Who knows? Now, they say, "post-traumatic syndrome" is widespread ... A time is not easy one …

Well, if I haven't heard anything new about the psychology of creativity, then I'll remember any drawings.…

A drawing from a children's book (by Arthur Conan Doyle) comes to my mind: there was a painting of the "hound of the Baskervilles" - a dog with shining fur (the fur, standing up), with an open mouth in which frightening fangs are visible.

If they're talking (on the radio) about exhibitions of his art-works, then maybe I'll see an ad somewhere.: "There is an exhibition of a member of the Union of Artists...".

I think on my possible steps: to come in? Don't (to) come in?

Or it’s better to go to the library and to look through the children's edition of Sherlock Holmes stories?


July 16, 2025, 22:50


Translation from Russian into English: July 17, 2025 15:31
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “ Художник с творческой фантазией. Заметка. ”.


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