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Predictions in art

Art. 9th grade

Subject: Art anticipates the future.

Prediction - this is a message about some event that will certainly happen in the future.

Artistic thinking, better than other people, is developed among artists, composers, writers, whose profession is the creative completion of reality. They are the ones who most often make amazing predictions, which often come true after a while.

Works of art more than once anticipated historical events, scientific discoveries, development of technical progress.

Minkowski, he declared that our reality is four-dimensional space-time ("Time Machine").

"Time Machine"- the first science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, which describes a journey into the world of the future, inhabited by two types of creatures into which man has turned: the Morlocks, who live in the underworld and service machines, and the fragile Eloi, completely unsuited for work. Over the millennia, both of them practically lost their minds, turning into half-animals.

In 1898, he predicted wars involving poison gas, aircraft, and laser-like devices.

"War worlds"

"War in the Air"

« When sleeping will wake up"

In 1905 he described a civilization of intelligent ants "Kingdom of Ants"

In the novel "World Liberated"(1914) mentions the Second World War, which started in the 1940s. There is also an “atomic bomb” dropped from an airplane and based on the splitting of an atom

In 1923, Wells was the first to introduce parallel worlds into science fiction. "People are like gods"

"The first people on Moon"

Wells also discovered such ideas as antigravity, pace of life accelerator and much more .

Alexander Romanovich Belyaev

Soviet science fiction writer, one of the founders of Soviet science fiction literature.

"KEC Star" (KETS are the initials of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky) Sometimes he is called the Russian "Jules Verne"

Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Russian Soviet writer and public figure, count.

Earthlings end up on Mars and discover a humanoid civilization there and become catalysts for a social explosion. The daughter of the head of the High Council, Aelita, falls in love with an earthly engineer. However, the revolution provoked by earthlings is defeated, and they return to Earth.

Fine art

Leonardo da Vinci was truly a genius. A bright representative of the “universal man” type, who contained all the key moments of the era and expressed them in his activities, he made a truly enormous contribution to the development of science.

Having constructed the “machine” of Leonardo da Vinci according to the drawings, the researchers proved that exactly he owns the “copyright” for a parachute, helicopter, scuba gear, machine gun, car and a host of other mechanisms, without which it is impossible to imagine modern civilization. So, prototype of the modern tank became a heavy van developed by the genius of the 15th century, encased in armor and armed with cannons on all sides.

Leonardo da Vinci known as a designer of weaving looms, printing machines, woodworking and earth-moving machines, glass grinding devices, and metallurgical furnaces. After observing scenes of military battles, Leonardo created a portable ladder ideal for storming palaces and fortresses. Nowadays, this device is used to rescue people in fires.

Inventions

• Parachute
• Wheel lock
• Bike
• Tank
• Lightweight portable bridges for the army.
• Spotlight
• Catapult
• Robot
• Two-lens telescope.

• Inventions

Mirror letter Was this a ploy to keep his notes confidential, or simply to avoid smearing ink, since Leonardo wrote with his left hand?

Whatever the reasons, most of Leonardo da Vinci's recordings were made in mirror images.

Scuba Da Vinci's fascination with the sea resulted in many sketches of devices for studying underwater life. His diving suit was made of leather and attached to a reed tube leading to a bell on the surface.

The artist’s practicality is proven by the elaboration of even such details as a container for collecting a diver’s urine.

Rotating Bridge This type of bridge, designed by Leonardo da Vinci, would have been useful to the armies of the time. Consisting of one span, the bridge was attached to the bank with a vertical hinge, which allowed it to rotate. Such bridges could be installed quite quickly. winged glider The conquest of the air element interested the genius no less than the conquest of the sea element. Here is one of the gliders designed by Da Vinci. The open-cockpit glider was equipped with a control system for the pilot, but was propelled by moving wings.

Three-barreled gun Despite his generally peaceful disposition, Leonardo also developed military vehicles. For example, more effective guns. This lightweight concept could easily become a fearsome weapon on the battlefield.

"Apocalypse"

On the eve of the 16th century artist returned to Nuremberg after his first trip to Italy.

At this time, Germany was experiencing great turmoil: crop failure, famine, cruel exactions. A wave of popular riots arose throughout the country, brutally suppressed by the princes and the Inquisition.

These days Dürer creates a series of woodcuts "Apocalypse" . The series includes 15 engravings illustrating Revelation of John the Theologian. The characters in the engravings are dressed in the costumes of his time, the canonical images are devoid of holiness..

Although the popularity of the series' engravings was linked to the widespread expectation of the end of the world in 1500, Apocalypse has powerful political overtones. The artist clearly hints that the princes and clergy are to blame for the events that took place in Germany - it is these people who will face terrible punishment. "The Four Horsemen" The Apocalypse symbolizes war, pestilence, judgment and death.

All four horsemen are the personification of famous biblical images. The first - the archer - is the Winner.

Study of the mathematical model of the paintings of the great Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh showed that some of his paintings depict real turbulent (vortex) flows invisible to the eye that arise during the rapid flow of a liquid or gas, for example, when gas flows out of a jet engine nozzle.

K. F. Yuon before the revolution he had already developed as an artist.

Moscow and Moscow suburbs, the Russian province and ancient Russian cities with their unique architecture and colorful crowds of people.

The artist translated revolutionary events into a cosmic, fantastic plane.

In the picture there are no real signs of life. This depicts the approach of some unknown planet to the Earth. In its rays, small figures of people rush about in fear. This is how the artist conveyed the events and upheavals of the revolutionary time.

Example such a phenomenon as prediction in art the painting “Bolshevik” can be considered B. M. Kustodieva.

B.M. KUSTODIEV

"BOLSHEVIK"

The main character of the picture, a Bolshevik, is depicted against the backdrop of the city. The Bolshevik is taller than all the houses and even the church, and his red banner obscures the blue sky. Compared to the Bolshevik, the people look insignificant. In his painting, B. M. Kustodiev used a metaphor that for many years they could not unravel.

During the initial period of creativity K.S.Petrov-Vodkin was strongly influenced by foreign masters. Since the 1910s, he moved from allegorical to holistic monumental and decorative works.

"Bathing the Red Horse"

This painting was perceived by contemporaries as a kind of sign, a metaphorical expression of the post-revolutionary (1905) and pre-revolutionary (1917) era, as a kind of foresight and premonition of future events. But if contemporaries only felt the prophetic character of “The Bathing of the Red Horse,” then descendants already confidently and convincingly declared the meaning of the painting, declaring it “ petrel of revolution in painting ".

In the art of music, an example of this kind of foresight is a piece for orchestra "The Unanswered Question" ("Spacescape") by American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954)

It was created at the beginning of the 20th century. - at a time when scientific discoveries were made in the field of space exploration and the creation of aircraft (K. Tsiolkovsky).

This play became a philosophical reflection on the place and role of man in the Universe.

Homemade exercise

Listen to the music of Charles Ives. What impression did she make on you? (written)

TEST

1.Jules Verne his works

• The Invisible Man
• Amphibian Man
• Time Machine
• Aelita
• 20,000 leagues under the sea

• test

In the painting “Bathing the Red Horse” by Petrov-Vodkin, the horse is a symbol

• courage
• youth
• fate of Russia
• sun
• revolution

Yuon “New Planet” the artist wanted to depict

• new discoveries in science
• events and upheavals of revolutionary times
• fantastic landscape

A. Tolstoy his works

A-War of the Worlds

B- Hyperboloid of engineer Garin

IN- Journey to the center of the Earth

G- Head of Professor Dowell

What inventions did Leonardo Da Vinci make?

• scuba
• telephone
• laser
• robot

Posted November 20, 2013

Today you have a rare opportunity to travel back many years. You will see how humanity imagined the 21st century long before the advent of computers, cell phones, and even electricity.

Film and television: no chance of success

In late 1925, Sam Warner (one of the four founding brothers of Warner Bros. Entertainment) acquired his own broadcast radio station. Inspired by her work, he suggested to his brother Harry that he use the recorded voice in films, synchronizing the audio with the movements of the actors on screen. At that time, cinema was no longer completely silent, but only unsynchronized sound was used in films.

At his brother's suggestion, Harry Warner responded with a stunning line: "Who the hell cares what the actors talk about?" Just two years later, Warner Bros. presented The Jazz Singer - the first film in which audiences could hear the voices of the actors.

However, unfortunately, the brothers themselves missed its premiere due to Sam's death. The one who first came up with the idea to make such a film.

For some reason, not everyone believed in the prospects of television either. So one of the heads of the 20th Century Fox studio, Darryl Zanuck, said in 1946: “Television cannot survive in the market for more than six months. People will simply get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

By the way, at that time television was about to become a mass phenomenon. For example, in our country, the Moscow television center on Shabolovka has been broadcasting regular programs for two hours four times a week since March 1, 1939.

How artists of the past saw the future

Arthur Radebaugh: the future is closer than we think

Many artists of the last century, inspired by the rapid (as it seemed then) development of science and technology, tried with their works to prove to everyone else that “the future is closer than we think.” This is the name artist Arthur Radebaugh gave to a series of drawings that were published between 1958 and 1962.

The comic drawings contained many interesting ideas and concepts. For example, Arthur assumed that in the future there will be fully automated agricultural lands in which plants will be grown under the control of numerous sensors, irrigation systems, etc.

Some of the futuristic predictions were not made by the artist out of nowhere. For example, in one of the drawings the author shows that in the future cars can be repainted in a matter of minutes using electromagnetic guns. This opportunity was supposed to arise thanks to new materials that were supposed to be used in the design of new cars.

And this is not exactly fantasy. D.S. mentioned similar prospects at that time. Harder (D.S. Harder), vice president of Ford. He hinted that cars may soon appear that will be resistant to pollution and will also have other amazing properties, for example, they will be able to clean themselves from dust.

Postmen of the future must be equipped with jetpacks. Such a device, as time has shown, is not only difficult to implement, but also completely impractical. The few examples of such backpacks were too noisy, required a huge amount of fuel and, moreover, posed a real threat to the “flyer”, since they were very difficult to control.

In the future, according to the artist, the car will become the main way of transportation for the average person. Therefore, for convenience, it would be advisable to build something like auto stores. They work approximately according to the McDrive principle - the driver drives up to a special parking lot and places an order for grocery products, which are loaded into the trunk of the buyer as they move along the “counters”. Most likely, Arthur Radebaugh did not suspect how futile such a project would be in conditions of widespread “motorization.” Just a dozen and a half cars are enough for a traffic jam to form at such a point of sale.

As for medicine, Arthur practically got it right. If you close your eyes to the technical details and leave only the essence of the prediction, then we can say that the artist practically foresaw laser therapy in his comic, thanks to which very complex operations became possible, without blood and complications.

Educational institutions of the future should be crowded with people who want to gain knowledge. This is where the artist shows optimism. In his opinion, or rather, according to the forecasts of scientists whose ideas he embodied in drawings, distance learning will be actively used in the future. Automated systems should give and check assignments to students.

This next concept is especially interesting because it directly affects you and me. The artist suggested that Alaska and Russia would be connected by a direct highway that would pass through a tunnel along the bottom of the Bering Strait. It is a pity that since then the ideas for building such a tunnel have not been translated into reality.

The artist also predicted in his drawings transport controlled by robots, hospitals in space, and rotating buildings. He also confidently stated that a device would soon appear with which it would be possible to record any television programs and then watch them at a convenient time. This miracle is called a “television tape recorder.” In the future, it will be possible to read books directly from the ceiling while lying on the sofa. The projector system will display images using microfilm. The main thing is not to fall asleep from such convenience.

Thoughts on canvas: cities of the future as imagined by their ancestors

At the beginning of the last century, many manufacturers of cigarettes, confectionery products and other things often included a postcard in the packaging. Colorful pictures could simply advertise the product itself, and they were also collected by collectors. For example, one of the cigarette manufacturers of that time stated without undue modesty that in 2500 in the city of the future (apparently in London) there would be a factory producing this particular brand of tobacco.

Similar cards could also be found in goods sold in Russia. For example, in 1914, the confectionery “Einem Partnership” (later the Red October factory) released a batch of “Moscow in the Future” sweets. The boxes of chocolates contained special postcards with views of Moscow 200 years later. These wonderful works were performed by the Russian battle painter Nikolai Nikolaevich Karazin. There were comments on the back of each card.

And what do we see in these prediction cards? The Moscow River is now overloaded with merchant ships. There are biplanes and monoplanes in the air, a hydroplane takes off at the pier, and a cargo airship with the inscription “Einem” flies to Tula with a supply of chocolate. There are snowmobiles, cavalry and a policeman with a saber. However, some of what was predicted did come true: look, for example, at subway trains and traffic jams.

You can learn about what the New York of the future should have looked like, for example, from the works of artist Richard Rummel. In 1910, he painted futuristic illustrations of a city of skyscrapers, which were later used for postcard designs.

The American political magazine Harper's Weekly (A Journal of Civilization) has been published in New York since 1857. Its staff included a talented cartoonist with German roots, Thomas Nast. His tasks included creating caricatures of politicians and ridiculing the apparatus of power in every way. Something like these drawings.

However, there is an interesting episode in the work of this cartoonist. In 1881, he tried to depict what New York would be like many years later. The 19th century artist also had no doubt that this city would grow not only in breadth, but also upward.

France 100 years later: artists' forecasts

Man has always dreamed of conquering the air. This was almost his first desire when he realized that he could make progress with his own hands. He constantly tried, experimented, failed, and yet, did not lose optimism. The man believed that conquering the air element was a matter of time. And of course, in the future everyone will fly. This belief can be seen very well in the works of French cartoonists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Everyone flies. Firefighters dressed as Batman put out the fire, and the unfaithful wife distracts her husband while her lover, like Carlson with a propeller on his back, flies out of the open window.

Many of the futuristic illustrations from the late 19th century are by an artist named Jean-Marc Côté. Perhaps no one would have ever known about the work of this man if Isaac Asimov in 1985 had not accidentally stumbled upon a large set of 50 postcards with a series of works EN L’AN 2000 by the French artist.

The famous science fiction writer, without hesitation, purchased them, and a year later published an entire book, Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000. In it, Asimov analyzes each drawing and discusses why certain plots could come to the mind of a person from another era .

Asimov has enough of his own predictions of the future, but when a talented futorologist conducts his own investigation of artifacts of the past, it’s damn interesting.

For example, Jean-Marc shows a real bomber in one of his works, and armored vehicles for battles in another. The postcards feature remote-controlled robots, submarines, and many, many other different ideas.

Many of the subjects of the paintings are shown in elements previously inaccessible to humans. People play croquet underwater, a whale-drawn bus carries passengers along the ocean floor, and aerial battles take place above the surface of the water.

A look at space from the past

Almost all futuristic forecasts now look naive and cause only surprise - how could you even just think that this is possible? The people of that time did not have the knowledge that we have. They had to think out, improvise and think in the images that surround them. Perhaps that's why their recreated future often looked like their own world, in which people wear the same hairstyles and top hats, and the most complex cars still have an exhaust pipe.

Even if the creation of pictures of the future was undertaken very thoroughly, the result was still the same. For example, in 1935, Soviet audiences saw the amazing film “Space Flight” for that time. It was a story about a group of Soviet scientists who travel to the moon. To make this film, consultations were held with Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky himself.

That is why there are a lot of little things in the film that no one would have paid attention to at that time. The film depicts the weightlessness experienced by the crew in space and demonstrates the weak gravity when walking on the Moon. But at the same time, the rocket plane itself is more reminiscent of an airship, the most fantastic aircraft of that time.

Hardly anyone today has any doubts that people will soon fly to Mars. We will most likely see what their first steps on the Red Planet will look like in a live broadcast. When this happens, what you see on the screens will be comparable to the illustration George Bakacs made back in 1964 for the book Rockets to Explore the Unknown.

Creative personalities - artists, musicians, poets - convey thoughts and feelings to people through their works. Sometimes the events described by people of art came true after some time. Predictions in art are an interesting topic that requires separate consideration.

Predicting the future

Writers, composers, artists are able to predict the future, because... They have creative thinking and mental acuity. Examples of predictions of the future in art are not uncommon.

Works of art anticipate cultural, scientific discoveries and historical events. It is worth quoting from John Priestley’s story “June 31st”:

“Everything created by the imagination must exist somewhere in the universe.”

People should be careful about artistic predictions.

Jules Verne

The famous French writer Jules Verne is a 19th century science fiction writer. He foresaw future scientific discoveries in many areas:

1. Scuba gear
2. Video communication.
3. Electric chair.
4. Aircraft (plane and helicopter).
5. Rockets.
6. Lunokhods.
7. Submarines.

In the book “20 ​​Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” the author describes the creation of the Nautilus. This is a prototype of modern submarines. In the work “From the Earth to the Moon,” a person uses modules and rockets with solar sails. The work “Robur the Conqueror” describes a device similar to a modern helicopter.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is a genius. He is a musician, inventor, architect, sculptor, poet, engineer. In his diaries, he recorded knowledge from medicine, history, biology, wrote down poems and made sketches. He made especially many predictions in art.

10 brilliant inventions of Leo da Vinci:

1. Ornithopter.
2. Diving suit.
3. Air propeller.
4. Parachute.
5. Bearing.
6. Machine gun.
7. Self-propelled cart.
8. Tank.
9. Ideal city.
10. Robot.

The ornithopter resembled a bird. He was supposed to lift a person into the air. The invention was designed in accordance with the laws of aerodynamics. The diving suit was invented to open the bottoms of attacking ships. The device made it possible to stay under water for a long time and see everything around through glass holes. We breathed through an underwater bell. The propeller was designed for human flight. It looked like a huge screw machine with blades. This invention led to the creation of the helicopter.

The parachute was shaped like a pyramid covered with fabric. Modern scientists studied the device and concluded that Leonardo’s idea could be brought to life. The bearing is the basis of all modern technology. The scientist was the first to sketch it in his notebook. The machine gun consisted of muskets on a board, arranged in a triangle. The shaft was in the center and rotated the weapon so that it fired at short intervals. The apparatus consisted of 11 guns. The same man invented the first car that was driven by a spring mechanism.

During the Middle Ages, epidemics were especially dangerous. The inventor developed a city plan with a hydraulic system and canals that would help avoid mass infection. The scientist studied the structure of the human body. He built a robot that was able to walk and sit.

Herbert Wales

The writer in his 1914 work “The Liberated World” spoke about the atomic bomb. He predicted the appearance of huge aircraft that could accommodate more than a thousand people, a rocket engine and a laser device. The science fiction writer suggested that the flights would be around the world.

A.R. Belyaev

The science fiction writer in his novel “KEC Star” described modern orbital stations. In the book “Eternal Bread” he spoke about the possibilities of genetics and biochemistry. Transplantology is a 20th century science that was predicted in “The Head of Professor Dowell.” In the novels “Amphibian Man” and “Ariel,” Belyaev reflected on man’s existence in conditions unusual for him (water and air).

In the history of art one can find many examples of artists warning their fellow citizens about impending social danger: wars, schisms, revolutions, etc. The ability to provide foresight is inherent in great artists, perhaps this is where the main strength of art lies.

The German painter and graphic artist of the Renaissance Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) created a series of engravings “Apocalypse” (Greek apokalypsis - revelation - this word serves as the name of one of the ancient church books, which contains prophecies about the end of the world). The artist expressed an anxious expectation of world-historical changes, which indeed shook Germany after some time. The most significant of this series is the engraving "The Four Horsemen". Horsemen - Death, Judgment, War, Pestilence - fiercely sweep across the earth, sparing neither kings nor commoners. The swirling clouds and horizontal streaks of the background increase the speed of this frantic gallop. But the archer's arrow rests on the right edge of the engraving, as if stopping this movement.

According to the plot of the Apocalypse, horsemen appear on earth one by one, but the artist deliberately placed them next to each other. Everything is like in life - war, pestilence, death, judgment come together. It is believed that the key to this arrangement of figures lies in Durer’s desire to warn his contemporaries and descendants that, having destroyed the wall that the artist had erected in the form of the edge of the engraving, the horsemen would inevitably burst into the real world.

Examples of art’s predictions of social change and upheaval include the etchings of F. Goya, the paintings “Guernica” by P. Picasso, “Bolshevik” by B. Kustodiev, “New Planet” by K. Yuon and many others.

In the painting “Bolshevik” Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878–1927) used a metaphor (hidden meaning), which for many decades has not been solved. Using this example, you can understand how the content of the picture is filled with new meaning, how the era with its new views and changed value orientations puts new meanings into the content.

For many years, this picture was interpreted as a solemn hymn to a persistent, strong-willed, unbending revolutionary, towering above the everyday world, which he overshadows with a red flag soaring into the sky. Events of the last decade of the twentieth century. made it possible to understand what the artist consciously or, most likely, unconsciously felt at the beginning of the century. Today, this picture, like K. Yuon’s “New Planet,” is filled with new content. But how artists at that time managed to sense the impending social changes so accurately remains a mystery.

In musical art, an example of this kind of foresight is the piece for orchestra “The Unanswered Question” (“Cosmic Landscape”) by the American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). It was created at the beginning of the 20th century. - at a time when scientific discoveries were made in the field of space exploration and the creation of aircraft (K. Tsiolkovsky). This piece, built on a dialogue between strings and woodwind instruments, became a philosophical reflection on the place and role of man in the Universe.

Russian artist Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov (1882-1943) sought to express the internal energy of the object in his dynamic compositions. By crushing objects, pushing them on top of each other, shifting planes and plans, he created the feeling of a lightning-fast changing world. In this restless, shifting, rushing and split space one can discern the familiar outlines of Moscow cathedrals, views of Novgorod, historical events expressed in allegorical form, flowers and even portraits.

Lentulov is concerned with the bottomless depths of human consciousness, which is in constant motion. He is attracted by the opportunity to convey something that is generally indescribable, for example, the spreading sound in the film “Ringing. Ivan the Great belltower".

In the paintings “Moscow” and “St. Basil’s”, unprecedented, fantastic forces shift established forms and concepts, a chaotic mixture of colors conveys kaleidoscopic, fragile images of the city and individual buildings, disintegrating into countless elements. All this appears before the audience as a moving, flickering, sounding, emotionally rich world. The widespread use of metaphor helps the artist transform ordinary things into bright, generalized images.

In Russian musical art, the theme of bells has found a vivid embodiment in the works of various composers of the past and present: (M. Glinka, M. Mussorgsky, S. Rachmaninov, G. Sviridov, V. Gavrilin, A. Petrov, etc.).

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People of art - artists, writers, musicians - are extraordinary personalities who see many events through the prism of their talent. Sometimes it breaks through all the laws of physics and rushes into the future. Prediction in art is not a rare thing, but it is phenomenal and often frightening.

Prophecies of Jules Verne

Science fiction writer Jules Verne made a stunning prediction in art. In the novel “From the Earth to the Moon,” he describes in detail the flight to the Moon in 1865, which actually took place in 1968. And the point is not that the author fantasized about space exploration, but that he described the ship in detail, accurately indicated its height and weight, the crew of 3 astronauts, the launch site - Florida and the landing site in the Pacific Ocean, the month of the flight - December. In 1994, a manuscript by Jules Verne, previously considered lost, “Paris in 1968” was found. Here, not only fax and photocopier services were described in detail, but also the modern appearance of the city with an openwork tower. In total, the author made 108 predictions, of which 64 have already come true.

What other science fiction writers foresaw

There were other predictions in art. Examples can be found in the works of Belyaev, the Strugatsky brothers, Herbert Wells, Alexei Tolstoy, and Ray Bradbury. They predicted many modern inventions such as mobile phone, TV, 3D images, smart home, robots.

A truly shocking prediction in art is Edgar Allan Poe's The Adventures of Arthur Pym, which details a shipwreck in which four people were saved. After many days of wandering on the open sea, exhausted by hunger and thirst, three kill the fourth and eat him. 50 years after the publication of the work, the events repeated themselves with amazing accuracy, even the names of the characters coincided. It is impossible to give a rational explanation for this.

Another tragic prediction of the future in art belongs to the American writer M. Robertson. In the novel “Futility,” he described in detail the disaster that occurred 14 years after the book was published. The coincidences between real facts and fantasies are simply unimaginable.

The poet Mikhail Lermontov predicted the October Revolution of 1917 and described his own death in detail in rhymed lines.

The artist who painted the future

Argentine artist Benjamin Parravicini, in a fit of creative insight, made sketches that predicted the tsunami in Japan and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the American flight to the Moon, the flight into space of the first living creature - the mongrel Laika, the "peaceful atom", communism in China, fascism and the Second World War. world war. Parravicini predicted the revolution in Cuba led by the bearded man when Fidel Castro was only 11 years old. The 1939 drawing, symbolizing the tragic terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, depicts the famous Twin Towers, which were not even built then. How can we explain this incredible prediction in art? Skeptics may argue that the interpretation of symbolic drawings can be adjusted to the facts. But the Argentine prophet accompanied each of his drawings with detailed descriptions of future events. As they say, what is written with a pen...

An inexplicable phenomenon - a prediction in art

In 1987, the show “Second Chance” was aired, in one of the episodes of which the British comedian D. Meicher recited that in 2011 the Libyan leader Gaddafi would find his death, who would go to hell for his association with terrorists. The leader of Libya actually died in 2011. The name of the screenwriter who left this prediction in art, unfortunately, is unknown. After all, the actor simply voiced the prophetic work of some author.

American musician Mikey Welsh predicted his death on a Facebook blog. Two weeks before his death, he wrote that he had a dream that in 2 weeks he would die of cardiac arrest. That's exactly what happened. Mikhail Krug also reflected his death in the song, describing that he would die in his own home.

Not only ordinary people, but also the scientific world are amazed by predictions in art. The examples are often striking in their precision of detail. The description of the place, date and circumstances of the incident coincides.

What lies ahead?

It is useful to compare predictions in art that have come true with prophecies that have not come true. This makes it possible to assume that in the near future humanity will master time travel, intergalactic flights, biorobots and artificial intelligence will be created, organ transplants will be the most progressive treatment, we will establish friendly relations with aliens. These are optimistic views. Pessimists talk about “star” wars, aging in a few hours and the complete degradation of humanity to a gregarious way of life.