From the course: Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart (Blinkist Summary)

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Bad ideas lead to solutions

Bad ideas lead to solutions

From the course: Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart (Blinkist Summary)

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Bad ideas lead to solutions

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- [Narrator] Blink number five. Ideas that appear bad at first glance can lead to new useful solutions. One particularly dismal March, the author headed to the Tretyakov Gallery to look at a groundbreaking painting. But he was left cold when he stood before it. The picture in question was Kazimir Malevich's Black Square. It was painted at the start of the 20th century, and it's quite literally a small square canvas painted black. But the true significance of this painting lies in the story behind it. Prior to Malevich's Black Square, art tended to portray reality and beauty. Even artists such as Picasso tried to capture a sort of reality, however distorted it can appear at first. Black Square freed art of the need to portray reality and reality alone. Art could become a vehicle for enriched visual communication and cognitive expansion. Art could be free. One of Malevich's students, El Lissitzky, put these ideas into…

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