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Editorial

Creative Being

by Grant Bartley

David Bowie was the Picasso of pop. Bowie deliberately completely changed his artistic direction every few years, pushing the style and content of his creativity off at a brand new tangent every time. In this he copied Picasso’s habit of radically, deliberately, frequently reshaping his artistic interests and identity. Bowie was also like Picasso in having the exceptional talent and creativity needed to pull this ambition off. You might even argue that Bowie was one of the few geniuses of art produced in Britain (or even the world) in the second half of the twentieth century.

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