P2:艺术家们不仅预见了艺术的后续发展,还预言了战争期间和战后出现的现代世界的政治和社会的混乱和动荡
e.g. Picasso and Braque in France, Kandinsky in Germany, and Malevich in Russia
- 这些艺术品的主要兴趣和价值在于预言能力,而不是艺术技法的突破
P3:艺术家的 forward-looking quality应该归功于exceptional aesthetic innovations,而不是make clever guesses about political or social trends √
e.g. Picasso and Braque
- The reformation of society was of no interest to them as artists
Painters: prophetic - world will be different
Common: break with traditions
Artists having anticipated in arts and political and social disruptions - prophetic power
Artist: speculate about the future and express a vision thought imagery/
Forward looking quality = innovations rather than power to guess.
Picasso and Brauqe: want to create more ‘real’reaity than accessible by eye. Reformation > no interests
Delacroix: retain power over modern viewers. But adjusted himself to new social condition that already occurred as opposed to changes still to come.