As usual, before the political powers could perceive that a new world was bearing down on them, the artists of the time prefigured it. Cubism and Abstract Impressionism are being invented a century ago, showing the way to a new exciting, disturbing and liberating modernism. Of course, the world would have to pass through a conflagration of war to get there. One day, perhaps, we will be wise enough to see that change and progress are inevitable and unavoidable and that the best way forward is to look ahead and not only behind.
MOMA Art Culture Shock of 1913.
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