Predictions in the arts
Any work of art is directed to the future. In the history of art, one can find many examples of artists warning their fellow citizens about an impending social danger: wars, splits, revolutions, etc. The ability to foresee is inherent in great artists, perhaps it is precisely in this that the main strength of art lies.
Albrecht Dürer The German Renaissance painter and graphic artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) created a series of engravings "Apocalypse" (Greek apokalypsis - revelation - this word serves as the title of one of the ancient church books that contains prophecies about the end of the world).
Albrecht Dürer artist German painter and graphic artist, recognized as the largest European master of woodcuts, who raised it to the level of real art. One of the greatest masters of the Western European Renaissance. The first art theorist among Northern European artists, Born: May 21, 1471, Nuremberg, Germany Died: April 6, 1528 (aged 56), Nuremberg, Germany Married to: Agnes Dürer Parents: Albrecht Dürer Senior ̆
xylography Woodcut (ancient Greek ξύλον - tree and γράφω - I write, draw) - a type of printed graphics, woodcut, the oldest wood engraving technique or an impression on paper made from such an engraving. A series of engravings by A. Durer "Apocalypse" was made in this technique.
The artist expressed an alarming expectation of world-historical changes, which, indeed, shook Germany after a while. The most significant of this series is the engraving "The Four Horsemen". Horsemen - Death, Judgment, War, Pestilence - rush furiously across the earth, sparing neither kings nor commoners. Swirling clouds and horizontal strokes of the background increase the speed of this frenzied 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 the ground in turn, but the artist specifically placed them side by side. Everything is like in life - war, pestilence, death, judgment come together. It is believed that the key to this placement of figures is Durer's desire to warn his contemporaries and descendants that, having crushed the wall that the artist erected in the form of the edge of the engraving, the riders will inevitably break into the real world.
Etchings by F. Goya, paintings "Guernica" by P. Picasso, "Bolshevik" by B. Kustodiev, "New Planet" by K. Yuon and many others can be considered examples of predictions in the art of social change and upheaval.
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes; March 30, 1746, Fuendetodos, near Zaragoza - April 16, 1828, Bordeaux) - Spanish artist, engraver.
This is how Goya captured the feat of the young Maria Agostina, the defender of Zaragoza (sheet “What courage!”).
K.Yuon "New Planet". This work depicts an unusual phenomenon - the birth of a new planet. Using symbols and allegories, reflecting on past grandiose events, K.F. Yuon is trying to comprehend the meaning of the October Revolution. This is a global phenomenon. And the reaction of people to such an unprecedented event is ambiguous.
In the painting “New Planet”, the birth of a new cosmic body is accompanied by bright flashes that illuminate people. Witnesses of an unusual phenomenon that destroys the usual way of life, the old world, react differently to what is happening. Someone sees in this the birth of a new, beautiful world. They hold out their hands hopefully towards the bright light.
Some people don't have the strength to go. They fall exhausted and crawl with their last strength to this new one. For others, the collapse of the old world causes panic horror. They may perceive the appearance of a new planet as the end of the world. People in fear fall on their faces, cover their heads, trying to hide, to escape from the impending catastrophe. The cosmic cataclysm leaves no one indifferent.
In the painting "Bolshevik" Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878-1927) used a metaphor (hidden meaning), which for many decades has not been unraveled. Using this example, one can understand how the content of the picture is filled with new meaning, how the era, with its new views, changed value orientations, puts new meanings into the content.
For many years, this picture was interpreted as a solemn hymn to a staunch, firm spirit, unbending revolutionary, towering over the ordinary 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 the artists of that time managed to feel the coming social changes so accurately remains a mystery.
In the art of music, an example of this kind of foresight is the piece for orchestra "The Unanswered Question" ("Space Landscape") by the American composer C. 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 the dialogue of string and woodwind instruments, became a philosophical reflection on the place and role of man in the Universe.
C. Ives (1874-1954).
The Russian artist Aristarkh Vasilievich Lentulov (1882-1943) sought to express the inner energy of an object in his dynamic compositions. Crushing objects, pushing them against each other, shifting planes and plans, he created the feeling of a world changing at lightning speed. In this restless, shifting, rushing and split space one can guess the familiar outlines of Moscow cathedrals, views of Novgorod, historical events expressed in allegorical form, flowers and even portraits.
Aristarkh Vasilievich Lentulov (1882-1943) Self-portrait
Lentulov is excited by the bottomless depths of human consciousness, which is in constant motion. He is attracted by the opportunity to convey what is generally indescribable, for example, the spreading sound in the film “Ring. Ivan the Great belltower".
A. Lentulov. 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 structures that break into countless elements.
Basil the Blessed
All this appears before the audience as a moving, shimmering, sounding, emotionally saturated world. The wide use of metaphor helps the artist to turn ordinary things into vivid generalized images.
P. Picasso
painting "Guernica" by P. Picasso
Guernica - Pablo Picasso. 1937 Picasso's expressive 1937 canvas was a public protest against the Nazi bombing of the Basque city of Guernica. His painting is full of personal feelings of suffering and violence. On the right side of the picture, the figures run away from the burning building, from the window of which a woman falls; on the left, a sobbing mother holds her child in her arms, and a triumphant bull tramples a fallen warrior.
The broken sword, the crushed flower and dove, the skull (hidden inside the horse's body), and the crucifixion-like posture of the fallen warrior are all generalized symbols of war and death. The bull symbolizes cruelty, and the horse symbolizes the suffering of the innocent.
Together, these violent figures form a semblance of a collage, silhouetted against a dark background, brightly lit by a woman with a lamp and an eye with an electric light bulb instead of a pupil. Monochrome painting, reminiscent of newspaper illustrations, and a sharp contrast of light and dark enhance the powerful emotional impact.
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin Soviet painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR was born in the city of Khvalynsk, Saratov province. In 1897-1905. he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the class of V.A. Serov, after which he continued his studies at the studio of A. Azhbe in Munich and at private academies in Paris. At the beginning of his creative activity, Petrov-Vodkin was strongly influenced by the German and French masters of symbolism and modernity. He was one of the first to reflect symbolist tendencies in Russian painting.
Bathing a red horse
History of creation In 1912, Petrov-Vodkin lived in the south of Russia, in an estate near Kamyshin. There is an opinion that the picture was painted in the village of Gusevka. It was then that he made the first sketches for the picture. And also the first, unpreserved version of the canvas, known from black and white photography, was written. The picture was a work of everyday rather than symbolic, as happened with the second option, it depicted just a few boys with horses. This first version was destroyed by the author, probably shortly after his return to St. Petersburg. Petrov-Vodkin painted the horse from a real stallion named Boy, who lived on the estate. To create the image of a teenager sitting on top of him, the artist used the features of his nephew Shura.
It is believed that the horse was originally bay, and that the master changed its color, having become acquainted with the color range of Novgorod icons, which he was shocked by. The collection and cleaning of icons in 1912 experienced its heyday. From the very beginning, the painting caused numerous controversies, in which it was invariably mentioned that such horses did not exist. However, the artist claimed that he adopted this color from ancient Russian icon painters: for example, on the icon “The Miracle of the Archangel Michael”, the horse is depicted completely red. As in the icons, this picture does not show a mixture of colors, the colors are contrasting and, as it were, collide in confrontation.
The perception of contemporaries The picture so impressed contemporaries with its monumentality and fatefulness that it was reflected in the work of many masters of brush and word. So, Sergei Yesenin's lines were born: I have now become more stingy in desires. My life! Or you dreamed of me! As if I am a spring resonant early Ride on a pink horse. The red horse acts as the Destiny of Russia, which the fragile and young rider is unable to hold. According to another version, the Red Horse is Russia itself, identified with Blok's "steppe mare". In this case, it is impossible not to note the visionary gift of the artist, who symbolically predicted the “red” fate of Russia in the 20th century with his painting.
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) purchased his own broadcast radio station. Inspired by her work, he suggested to his brother Harry that he also use the recorded voice in films, synchronizing the audio with the movements of the actors on the screen. At that time, the cinema was no longer completely silent, but the films used only unsynchronized sound.
At the suggestion of his brother Harry, Warner gave an amazing phrase: “Who the hell cares what the actors are talking about there?”. Just two years later, Warner Bros. presented The Jazz Singer - the first film in which the audience could hear the voices of the actors.
Unfortunately, however, the brothers themselves missed its premiere due to Sam's death. The one who first gave the idea to make such a film.
For some reason, not everyone believed in the prospects of television either. So one of the leaders of the studio 20th Century Fox Darryl Zanuck (Darryl Zanuck) in 1946 said: "Television will not be able to hold out on the market for more than six months. People will just 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 from March 1, 1939 broadcast regular programs for two hours four times a week.
How artists of the past saw the future
Arthur Radebo: 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 to prove to everyone else with their works that “the future is closer than we think.” This is the title artist Arthur Radebaugh gave to a series of drawings that were published between 1958 and 1962.
The drawings-comics contained many interesting ideas and concepts. For example, Arthur envisioned the future of fully automated farmland, where crops would be grown under the control of multiple sensors, watering systems, and so on.
Some of the futuristic predictions were made by the artist for a reason. So, 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. Such an opportunity should have appeared due to new materials that were supposed to be used in the construction of new cars.
And it's not exactly fantasy. Similar prospects were mentioned at that time by D.S. Harder (D.S. Harder), vice president of Ford. He hinted that cars could soon appear that would be resistant to pollution, as well as have other amazing properties, such as being able to clean themselves of 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 instances of such packs were too noisy, required a huge amount of fuel and, moreover, posed a real threat to the “flyer”, since it was very difficult to control them.
In the future, according to the artist, the car will become the main way of transportation for an ordinary person. Therefore, for convenience, it would be advisable to build something like shops for cars. They work, roughly, according to the McDrive principle - the driver drives up to a special parking lot and places an order for groceries, which are loaded into the trunk of the buyer along the “counters”. Most likely, Arthur Radebaugh did not suspect how unpromising such a project would be in the conditions of universal “motorization”. Only a dozen and a half cars are enough for a “traffic jam” to form at such a point of sale.
As for medicine, then Arthur almost guessed right. If we close our 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 book, thanks to which very complex operations became possible, without blood and complications.
The educational institutions of the future must be overflowing with those wishing to acquire knowledge. Here 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.
The 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 unfortunate that since then the ideas about the construction of such a tunnel have not been translated into reality.
The artist also predicted in his drawings transport controlled by robots, hospitals in space, 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 view them at a convenient time for himself. This miracle is called “television tape recorder”. In the future, it will be possible to read books directly from the ceiling, lying on the sofa. The projector system will display the image using microfilm. The main thing is not to fall asleep from such convenience.
Thoughts on Canvas: Cities of the Future as Seen by Ancestors
At the beginning of the last century, many manufacturers of cigarettes, confectionery and other things often put a postcard in the packaging. Colorful pictures could simply advertise the product itself, and they were also collected by collectors. So, for example, one of the cigarette manufacturers of that time, without too much modesty, stated that in the year 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 Einem confectionery company (later the Krasny Oktyabr factory) produced a batch of Moscow in the Future sweets. Special postcards were enclosed in boxes with sweets - with views of Moscow after 200 years. These wonderful works were made by the Russian battle painter Nikolai Nikolaevich Karazin. There were comments on the back of each postcard.
And what do we see in these postcards-predictions? The Moscow River is now overloaded with merchant ships. Biplanes and monoplanes are in the air, a hydroplane takes off at the pier, and a commercial 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.
About how the New York of the future was supposed to look, you can learn, for example, from the works of artist Richard Rummel (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. His staff included a talented cartoonist with German roots, Thomas Nast. His tasks included creating caricatures of politicians and all kinds of ridicule of the government apparatus. like these drawings.
However, there is an interesting episode in the work of this cartoonist. In 1881, he tried to portray what New York would be like many years later. The artist of the 19th century also had no doubt that this city would grow not only in breadth, but also upwards.
France 100 years later: artists' predictions
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 never lost optimism. The man believed that the conquest of the air element is a matter of time. And of course, in the future everyone will fly. This belief can be seen very well in the work of French cartoonists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
All fly. 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 through 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 ever have known about the work of this person if Isaac Asimov had not accidentally stumbled upon a large set of 50 postcards with a series of works by the French artist EN L’AN 2000 in 1985.
The famous science fiction writer, without hesitation, bought them, and a year later he released the whole book Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000. In it, Asimov analyzes each drawing and discusses why certain plots could come to mind to 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.
So, for example, Jean-Marc in one of his works shows a real bomber, and in another - armored vehicles for battles. There are remote-controlled robots, submarines and many, many other ideas on the postcards.
Many of the plots of the paintings are shown in elements that were previously inaccessible to man. Under water, people play croquet, a bus pulled by a whale carries passengers along the ocean floor, and air battles take place above the water surface.
A look at space from the past
Almost all futuristic predictions 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 store of knowledge that we have. They had to think, improvise and think with 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 taken very thoroughly, the result was still the same. For example, in 1935, the Soviet audience saw the film “Space Flight”, which was amazing 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 shows the weightlessness experienced by crew members in space, while walking on the moon demonstrates a slight attraction. But at the same time, the rocket plane itself is more like an airship, the most fantastic aircraft of that time.
It is unlikely that anyone today has doubts about the fact that soon people will fly to Mars. What their first steps on the Red Planet will look like, most likely, we will see in the live broadcast mode. When that happens, the screens will be compared to George Bakacs' 1964 illustration for Rockets to Explore the Unknown.
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Art is not only a source of inspiration, but also a great mystery. After all, often artists add interesting details to their paintings or leave messages that cannot be seen at first sight.
website collected masterpieces of painting with unexpected secrets. At the end of the article, a bonus awaits you: one of the strangest assumptions about the Mona Lisa.
10. Wrong ear
Vincent van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with a Cut-Off Ear and Pipe" shows that the artist's right ear was injured. Actually went to the left ear. The fact is that the post-impressionist used a mirror to paint.
9. A painting within a painting
If you look closely at the "Old Guitarist" Pablo Picasso, you can see the silhouette of a woman. Using infrared and X-ray images, scientists at the Art Institute of Chicago have discovered several more figures that are hidden under the painting. Most likely, the artist did not have enough money to buy new canvases and he was forced to paint over the old ones.
8. "Night watch" was a day
During the restoration of Rembrandt's painting "The performance of the rifle company of Captain Frans Banning Cock and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburg", which is better known as "Night Watch", in 1947 a thick layer of soot was discovered on it. After clearing, it turned out that the events depicted on the canvas take place during the day, and not at night.
7. Anatomical code of the Sistine Chapel
6. Symbol of strength
In the fresco "David and Goliath" Michelangelo encoded the Hebrew letter "gimel", which in the mystical tradition of Kabbalah means strength.
5. Rembrandt's strabismus
Margaret Livingston and Beville Conway studied Rembrandt's self-portraits and proved that the artist suffered from strabismus. Due to illness, the painter perceived the world differently than other people, and saw reality not in 3D, but in 2D. However, it is possible that thanks to stereo-blindness, Rembrandt created his immortal masterpieces.
4. Revenge on lovers
One of Gustav Klimt's most famous paintings depicts Adele Bloch-Bauer. The magnate Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer commissioned the portrait of his wife. He learned about the affair between Adele and Klimt and believed that after hundreds of sketches, the painter will hate his mistress. Routine work really made it so that the feelings of the model and the artist cooled down.
3. Doomsday prediction
Italian researcher Sabrina Sforza Galizia has proposed an unusual interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. She is sure that in his painting the artist left a prediction of the end of the world, which will happen on March 21, 4006. To understand this the researcher solved the mathematical and astrological cipher"The Last Supper".
Back in the 1930s, the Argentine prophet painted our present and future, following the dictates of a higher mind. At all times, not only devout priests, but also people of art, to whom an unknown higher power whispered plots of novels and paintings, became prophets. For the Argentine artist and sculptor Benjamin Solari Parravicini, this was not just an inspiration, but a prophetic gift.
Without knowing it himself, back in the 30s he drew a lot of things that he could not even suspect, for example, a TV or Belka and Strelka flying into space.
“Sometimes something was found on him, he feverishly grabbed a pencil, which seemed to lead his hand over the paper, as if someone was dictating something to him,” Benjamin’s father Florencio said during his lifetime.
In one of these bursts of inspiration, he drew angels crying over a huge whirlpool and signed - Japan.
In the marginal notes, he talked about how the big "F" would explode and make a lot of noise all over the earth. It is possible that by "F" he meant the Japanese nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1".
After the devastating impact of the tsunami, four explosions occurred in power units. This event created an incredible information noise all over the planet. The forecasts of the sculptor inspired by the Universe largely coincide with the prophecies of the blind Vanga. He also says that humanity is waiting for a nuclear catastrophe that will spread deadly diseases and weakness around the world.
According to his drawings, after the catastrophe, the Russians and the “yellow faces” will rule the world. Back in 1936, the master's sketches and captions became much more strange and unusual, but this was not immediately noticed.
At the beginning of the century, this was considered a bizarre manner of the artist. Only many years after the mysterious stories depicted in the drawings began to come true with amazing accuracy, they started talking about Parravicini in Argentina as a prophet. 
- "Home television! On a small screen right from home you can watch the ongoing external events" (1938). The first black-and-white television receivers came into use only in the 50s. Parravicini even managed to sketch the future TV. In the same 1938, he made the following entry: “The world will become impersonal under the power of the home screen. The negative influence of the new device will spread to every family, which will later be highly commercialized in the pursuit of the masses. Hypnotized by beautiful pictures of a beautiful paradise, humanity will simply become dumb. The day will come when, like sheep in a fold, he will be easily manipulated." 
- "The struggle for power between the Yankees and the Russians. The struggle for territory and the conquest of outer space. Strangely enough, America still gets the cup of power (1941).
The phrase "conquest of outer space" appeared on everyone's lips only 16 years after the prediction of Benjamin, who was able to foresee the American triumph in the creation of a series of 3-seat Apollo spacecraft, which made it possible to make the first successful landing of astronauts on the moon. 
"Man will fly to the stars, overcome sound, know the stars and understand that the Earth is only the lowest and most undeveloped of all the existing planets" (1937).
The first person to break the sound barrier will be Charles Elwood 10 years after Benjamin's prophecy. 
- "In 60-70 years people will fly with might and main!" (1938).
Russian pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin will make the first flight in the history of cosmonautics aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft in 1961.
After that, in the 60s and 70s. more and more new achievements in astronautics shocked mankind.
Parravicini would later write:
"People will reach the moon. They will be able to reach it, however, they will not be able to inhabit it. They will see it, but they will not be able to look into its depths. They will listen, but they will not hear. They will return without returning. Beware!" (1940, 29 years before the first landing of a man on the moon). 
"The dog will be the first to fly into space" (1938).
Benjamin for 19 years foresaw the flight of the dog Laika, the first living creature, into outer space. The sensational flight of the first animal launched into Earth orbit took place in 1957. 
“Flying saucers in the form of bright circular flashes of light will visit the Earth, bringing with them strange creatures from other planets. It will be those who will flood the earth. Those who in the Old Testament called themselves angels and all will see and listen to them again” (1938).
It is curious that the term "flying saucer" itself was first publicized only in 1947 after the UFO he saw described by the pilot Arnold Kenneth. 
"The atom will come and rule the world" (1939)
Taking into account the fact that the first attempts to create an atomic bomb occur in 1945, and the first nuclear reactor was launched only in 1951, the prophecy seems impossible.
"In Spain, a dictator will come to power who will destroy the country. Following him, Bourbon will ascend the throne, and then the weakened tyrant will flee to Argentina, if only his health allows" (1938).
The prophecy was written in the midst of the civil war in Spain, in the year, in the year of the birth of the future King Juan Carlos Bourbon. Parravicina already then foresaw the victory of Franco, his rise to power after the civil war in 1939 and the subsequent transfer of the crown to Juan Carlos after the death of the tyrant.
Franco died of Parkinson's disease in 1975, before he could fulfill his intention to move to Argentina.
"Russia will subdue China and spread her dogmas there" (1939).
10 years after the civil war, Mao Zedong came to power in China, proclaiming communism as the national ideology of the state. 
"The papacy will take on new forms. What yesterday still seemed evil will cease to be so. The Mass will become Protestant without being Protestant. Catholics will become Protestants without being Protestants. The Pope will move away from the Vatican because of his travels and will reach America; humanity will fall" (1938).
Benjamin foresaw a revision of the reforms of the Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council in 1962, as well as the appointment of a new Pope, John Paul II, in 1978, known for his constant travel around the world, especially to Latin America.
Hitler - Mussolini. One end awaits them; one end" (1939).
7 years before the overthrow of the Nazis, Benjamin painted the bound and defeated Nazi leaders.
“The heart of the world will fall in the 40th year. It will fall and will belong to the Germans until the 44th ”(1938).
In 1938, before the outbreak of World War II, Parravicini already knew about the fall of France in the face of Nazi Germany. In the figure of the prophet, the Eiffel Tower is perfectly distinguishable, against which the French flag looms.
"A man with a beard, who will seem holy to everyone, will set fire to the Antilles" (1937)
The revolution in Cuba took place 22 years after the prophecy. When Benjamin predicted the event, the future revolutionary Fidel Castro was only 11 years old.
Exactly one year later, Parravicini added to his prophecy:
"The bearded men will win in Cuba" (1938).
"Absolute darkness. After the "Caribbean chaos", a single "eye" will see "light from the South" from a single "palm tree". Cardinal changes await the planet, and only the South will forever remain the South." (1938) 
In the drawing, Benjamin clearly depicted lightning, which many experts interpret as the HAARP high-frequency active auroral research program, colliding with a layer of the ionosphere and provoking powerful aftershocks.
The palm tree, in all likelihood, means the island of Haiti, where at least 200 thousand people died during the last earthquake, and the earth's axis shifted a few centimeters.
"The freedom of North America will be extinguished, its torch will no longer shine as before, it will be attacked twice." (1939)
Benjamin even drew the famous twin towers that were attacked on September 11, 2001. The most amazing thing is that at the time the drawing was created, the towers had not even been built yet. 
“A foreign ship will prove to the population on Earth the existence of a different form of life. At some point, the South Pole will turn into the North. But only for a while! "(1960)
"The atom will take over the world. The planet will go blind. Man will provoke random storms and natural disasters, new forms of disease, sexual promiscuity, mass clouding of the mind, general stupefaction. The world will plunge into darkness." (1934)
"The beginning of the end will come! Man himself will trample his essence in order to reproduce offspring, the male will cease to be needed. Human organisms will be born into the world without any offspring. And all this against the backdrop of atomic explosions that will destroy humanity. People will be killed by radiation; from the womb of mothers monsters of animal and vegetable origin will be born.Strontium will make people born with bones like glass;it will also eat their brains of blood cells;cancer will become completely normal.As a result of a nuclear war, Russians and yellowskins will be in a privileged position ". (1936)
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.
future prediction
Writers, composers, artists are able to predict the future, because. they have creative thinking, sharpness of mind. 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 science fiction writer of the 19th century. He foresaw the scientific discoveries of the future in many areas:
- Scuba.
- Video communication.
- Electric chair.
- Aircraft (airplane and helicopter).
- Rockets.
- Moon rovers.
- Submarines.
In the book 20,000 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 an apparatus 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 entered knowledge from medicine, history, biology, wrote down poems and made sketches. He had especially many predictions in art.
10 brilliant inventions of Leo da Vinci:
- Ornithopter.
- Diving suit.
- Air propeller.
- Parachute.
- Bearing.
- Machine gun.
- Self-propelled cart.
- Tank.
- Ideal city.
- Robot.
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 allowed to be under water for a long time and to see everything around through the glass holes. They breathed through an underwater bell. The propeller was conceived for human flight. It looked like a huge screw machine with blades. This invention led to the creation of the helicopter.
The parachute had the shape of a pyramid covered with cloth. Scientists of our time have studied the device and concluded that Leonardo's idea can be realized. The bearing is the basis of all modern technology. The scientist was the first to make his sketches in his notebook. The machine gun was a musket on a board, folded into 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 rode with the help of 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 contamination. 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 the work "The Liberated World" in 1914 spoke about the atomic bomb. He predicted the emergence of huge aircraft that could accommodate more than a thousand people, a rocket engine and a laser device. Fantast suggested that flights would be around the world.
A.R. Belyaev
The science fiction writer in the novel "Star of the CEC" described modern orbital stations. In the book "Eternal Bread" he spoke about the possibilities of genetics and biochemistry. Transplantology is a science of the 20th century, which was predicted in "Professor Dowell's Head". In the novels "Amphibian Man" and "Ariel" Belyaev reflected on a person's stay in unusual conditions for him (water and air).
