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c. 1934-1940

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Rabindranath Tagore

Indian (eastern India, Calcutta), 1861 - 1941

In a late essay on creativity, Tagore followed earlier Indian philosophers in equating the simultaneous joy, pain, bondage, and freedom of the creative moment with a lightning flash rupturing a stormy sky.

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Rabindranath Tagore, c. 1934-1940 | Philadelphia Art Museum