Thoughts on Chpt 7

I have always felt that the most interesting and in many ways most creative works of art tend to come from the periods of history that are usually considered as being the most repressive. For example the paintings and sculptures of the German artists working after the first World War and leading up to the second. The works of visual artists, such as Wassily Kandinsky or Kate Kollwitz, were denigrated under the Nazi regime and displayed to the public as the epitome of degeneracy, but these works have in many ways (or at least for me) come to embody the staggering emotive power of "the creative". I feel that it is during times of intense turmoil and suffering that people have the greatest capacity to break the molds of the conventional and achieve new levels of creativity.