Artists of all times have tried to imagine the future in their paintings and sculptures. Today we call this trend retrofuturism. We have collected works contemporary artists, who will become retrofuturists in a couple of decades.

Simon Stalenhag

Swedish artist Simon Stalenhag has been fascinated by the beauty of his native landscapes since childhood. In his youth, he painted landscapes in the spirit of his favorite compatriot artists. But when the artist grew up, robots, hadron colliders and giant flying tractors invaded the rural idyll of his paintings. However, people live in this alternative world everyday life and, it seems, are not at all surprised by the wonders around them.

“In the 1950s, the government launched a huge nuclear accelerator and research laboratory just a few kilometers from Stockholm. The laboratory is located underground and produces large number experimental technologies. Up until the 70s everything goes great, but then the system begins to collapse. Bad things start to happen. The images on my website show the lives of the people of that world, and how they were affected by the fiasco of the gigantic scientific project. Nobody knows how it will all end,” says Simon about what is happening in his fictional world.

Greg Brotherton

Sculptor Greg Brotherton shows a world of oppression and slavery in his works made of mechanical parts. His sculptures depict faceless, small people chained to their desks and performing monotonous, meaningless actions. In his youth, Greg read the works of Orwell and Kafka, which suited his mood at that time. The artist still looks at the world around us through the eyes of a gloomy teenager, filled with fear of the future.

Leo Eguiarte

​Los Angeles artist Leo Eguiarte transforms old circuit boards into pessimistic illustrations of the future. His works, executed in acidic color scheme, relate to the problem of fixing a person on material values. The artist’s favorite colors - purple, turquoise and emerald - are present in all Egiarte’s paintings, forming, in combination with the geometric shapes, an image of a synthetic future. The Synthetic Dream series addresses the issue of power usurped by a minority, and invites the viewer to think about how our decisions and the way we interact with reality can change civilization.

Yang Yongliang

Chinese artist Yang Yongliang demonstrates the destructive impact of industrialization on nature in digital collages. The world will be so inhospitable and gray if humanity continues to recklessly rebuild environment and pollute the planet with waste from their activities.

Any work of art is directed towards the future. In the history of art one can find many examples of artists warning their fellow citizens about impending social danger: wars, splits, revolutions, etc. The ability to create a product is inherent in great artists, and perhaps this is what main strength art. Any work of art is directed towards the future. In the history of art one can find many examples of artists warning their fellow citizens about impending social danger: wars, splits, revolutions, etc. The ability to create a work is inherent in great artists, and perhaps this is where the main strength of art lies.

Albrecht Durer German painter and the Renaissance graphic artist Albrecht Durer () created a series of engravings "Apocalypse" (Greek apokalypsis - revelation - this word is the name of one of the ancient books that 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 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 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.

Examples of predictions by the art of social change and upheaval can be considered in the etchings of F. Goya, the paintings “Guernica” by P. Picasso, “Bolshevik” by B. Kustodiev, “ New planet" K. Yuon and many others. Examples of predictions by art of social changes and upheavals can be considered in the etchings of F. Goya, the paintings "Guernica" by P. Picasso, "Bolshevik" by B. Kustodiev, "New Planet" by K. Yuon and many others.

"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso The reason for the creation of "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso was the bombing of the city of the country of bucks - Guernica. During the Spanish Civil War, on April 26, 1937, the Condor Legion, a volunteer unit of the Luftwaffe, carried out a night raid on Guernica. Painting "Guernica" by P. Picasso Several aerial bombs were dropped on the city, which caused a permit fire, as a result of which a significant part of the city was destroyed and, according to various estimates, about people were injured. The artist showed the brutal face of war, a reflection of that terrible reality in abstract forms, and it is still in our anti-war arsenal. In general, this picture perfectly conveys the tragedy of people’s heartlessness.

Bolshevik. B. Kustodiev In the film "Bolshevik" Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev () used a metaphor ( hidden meaning), which has not been solved for many decades. For many years this picture was interpreted as solemn anthem persistent, strong-willed, unbending revolutionary, towering above ordinary world, which he overshadows with a red flag soaring into the sky. Many Events last decade XX century made it possible to understand what the artist consciously or, most likely, unconsciously felt at the beginning of the century. Today this picture is filled with new content. But how artists at that time managed to sense the coming social changes so accurately remains a mystery.

New planet. K. Yuon The new planet is Soviet Russia, the appearance of which shook the universe and moved the stars from their paths. Tiny figures of people, thrown to the ground in horror or stretching out their hands to the sky filled with mystical light, are intended to remind us that the fate of one person is insignificant against the backdrop of world cataclysms, one of which Yuon sees as the “October Revolution”.

Unanswered question B musical art An example of foresight is the piece for orchestra "The Unanswered Question" (" Space landscape") by the American composer Charles Ives (). It was created at the beginning of the 20th century - at the time when scientific discoveries in the field of space exploration and the creation of aircraft (K. Tsiolkovsky). This piece, built on a dialogue between strings and woodwind instruments, has become philosophical reflection about the place and role of man in the Universe.

Aristarkh Vasilievich Lentulov () Bell tower of Ivan the Great

In the paintings “Moscow” and “St. Basil’s”, unprecedented, fantastic forces shift established forms and concepts, the chaotic shift of colors is conveyed by 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.

Argentine artist and sculptor Benjamin Solari Parravicini predicted the disaster in Japan, the atomic bomb, the September 11 terrorist attack in New York and space flight back in the 1930s.

At all times, not only pious priests became prophets, but also people of art, to whom the unknown higher power whispered the plots of novels and paintings. For the Argentine artist and sculptor Benjamin Solari Parravicini, this was not just inspiration, but a prophetic gift.
- Sometimes something came over him, he feverishly grabbed a pencil, which seemed to be moving his hand along the paper, as if someone was dictating something to him,- Benjamin’s father Florenzio said during his lifetime.

In one of these attacks of inspiration, he drew angels crying over a huge whirlpool and signed it - Japan.
In notes in the margins, he said that the big "F" would explode and make a lot of noise throughout the earth. It is possible that by “F” he meant Japanese nuclear power plant"Fukushima-1". After the devastating tsunami hit, four explosions occurred in power units.

Back in 1936, the master’s sketches and signatures to them 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 mysterious stories The dreams depicted in the drawings began to come true with amazing accuracy, and people started talking about Parravicini in Argentina as a prophet.

- « Home TV! On a small screen you can watch what’s happening right from home external events» (1938).

The first black and white television receivers came into use only in the 50s. Parravicini even managed to make a sketch of the future TV.

Also in 1938, he made the following entry:
“The world will become impersonal under the rule of the home screen. Will apply to every family negative influence a new device, which will be heavily commercialized in the future in pursuit of the masses. Hypnotized beautiful pictures beautiful paradise, humanity will simply become dull. The day will come when, like sheep in a sheepfold, they will be easily manipulated.".

- “The struggle for power between the Yankees and the Russians. The struggle for territory and the conquest of outer space. Oddly enough, the power cup will still go to America(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 creating a series of 3-seater spaceships Apollo, which made it possible to make the first successful landing of astronauts on the Moon.

“Man will fly to the stars, overcome sound, cognize the luminaries and understand that the Earth is only the lowest and most undeveloped of all existing planets.” (1937).

The first person to break the sound barrier will be Charles Elwood, 10 years after Benjamin's prophecy.

-“In the 60-70s people will be flying with all their might!”(1938).

Russian pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin will make the first flight in the history of astronautics aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft in 1961.

After that, in the 60-70s. More and more new achievements in astronautics shocked humanity.

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 will not be able to look into its depths. They will listen, but will not hear. They will return without returning. Carefully!"(1940, 29 years before the first man landed on the Moon).

"A dog will be the first to fly into space" (1938).

Benjamin foresaw for 19 years 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. These will be the ones who will flood the earth. Those who are in Old Testament called themselves angels and everyone will see and listen to them again" (1938).

It is curious that the term “flying saucer” itself first became publicized only in 1947 after pilot Arnold Kennett described a UFO he saw.

“The atom will come and rule the world” (1939)

Taking into account the fact that the first attempts to create atomic bomb fall in 1945, and the first nuclear reactor was launched only in 1951, the prophecy seems impossible.

“In Spain, a dictator will come to power and destroy the country. Following him, Bourbon will ascend to the throne, and then the weakened tyrant will flee to Argentina, if only his health allows him.” (1938).

The prophecy is written in the heat of the moment civil war in Spain, in the year of the birth of the future King Juan Carlos of Bourbon. Parravicina already then foresaw Franco's victory, his rise to power after the civil war in 1939 and the subsequent transfer of the crown to Juan Carlos after the tyrant's death.

Franco died of Parkinson's disease in 1975, before realizing his intention to move to Argentina.

“Russia will subjugate China and spread its 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 new forms. What yesterday still seemed evil will cease to be so. The Mass will become Protestant without being so. Catholics will become Protestants without being Protestants. The Pope will move away from the Vatican due to his travels and reach America; humanity will fall" (1938).

Benjamin foresaw a revision of the reforms 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 trips 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 bound and defeated Nazi leaders.

“The heart of the world will fall in the year 40. It will fall and belong to the Germans until 1944.” (1938).

In 1938, even before the outbreak of World War II, Parravicini already knew about the fall of France in the face of fascist Germany. In the prophet’s drawing, the Eiffel Tower is clearly visible, against which the French flag looms.

“A man with a beard, who will seem like a saint to everyone, will set the Antilles on fire.” (1937)

The revolution in Cuba occurred 22 years after the prophecy. When Benjamin predicted the event, the future revolutionary Fidel Castro was only 11 years old.

“In Cuba, bearded men will win”(1938).

“Absolute darkness. After the “Caribbean Chaos”, a single “eye” will see “light from the South” from a single “palm tree”. The planet is about to undergo dramatic changes, 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 the ionospheric layer and provoking powerful tremors.

The palm tree most likely refers to the island of Haiti, where the latest earthquake killed at least 200 thousand people and caused the earth's axis to shift several centimeters.

"Freedom North America will go out, her torch will no longer shine as before, she will be attacked twice.” (1939)

Benjamin even painted 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.

“The alien ship will prove to the population on Earth the existence of another form of life. One day South Pole will turn out to be Northern. 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 reason, general dullness. The world will plunge into darkness." (1934)

“The beginning of the end will come! A person himself will trample on his essence so that a male individual will no longer be needed to reproduce offspring. Human organisms will be born without any offspring. And all this against the background of atomic explosions that will destroy humanity. Radiation will kill people; Monsters, monsters of animal and plant origin, will be born from the wombs of mothers. Because of strontium, people will be born with bones like glass; it will also eat their brains and blood cells; cancer will become completely normal. As a result of a nuclear war, Russians and yellow-skinned people will find themselves in a privileged position.” (1936)

Predictions in art Compiled by: teacher of MBOU secondary school No. 3 of the village of Krylovskaya Krasnodar region Krylovsky district Shikulya Elena Nikolaevna

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

Albrecht Durer 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).

Albrecht Dürer artist German painter and graphic artist, recognized as the largest European master of woodblock printing, who raised it to the level of real art. One of greatest masters Western European Renaissance. The first art theorist among Northern European artists, Born: May 21, 1471, Nuremberg, Germany Died: April 6, 1528 (age 56), Nuremberg, Germany Married to: Agnes Dürer Parents: Albrecht Dürer Elders ̆

woodcut Woodcut (ancient Greek ξύλον - wood and γράφω - write, draw) - type printed graphics, woodcut, the ancient technique of wood engraving, or an impression on paper made from such an engraving. A series of engravings by A. Durer “Apocalypse” was made using this technique.

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 the ground 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 predictions in the art of social changes and upheavals include the etchings of F. Goya, the paintings “Guernica” by P. Picasso, “Bolshevik” by B. Kustodiev, “New Planet” by K. Yuon and many others.

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 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 October Revolution. This is a phenomenon on a universal scale. And people’s reaction 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 unusual phenomenon, destroying the usual way of life, old world, react differently to what is happening. Some people see this as the birth of something new, beautiful world. They hopefully stretch out their hands towards the bright light.

Some don't have the strength to walk. They fall exhausted and crawl out of last bit of strength to this new one. For others, the collapse of the old world causes panic. They may perceive the appearance of a new planet as the end of the world. People fall on their faces in fear, covering their heads, trying to hide, to save themselves 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 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 coming 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 being made in the field of space exploration and the creation of aircraft (K. Tsiolkovsky). This play, built on a dialogue between strings and woodwind instruments, became a philosophical reflection on the place and role of man in the Universe.

C. Ives (1874-1954).

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.

Aristarkh Vasilievich Lentulov (1882-1943) Self-portrait

Lentulov is worried about the bottomless depths human consciousness, 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. Bell tower of Ivan the Great."

A. Lentulov. Ringing. Bell tower of Ivan the Great

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.

St. Basil the Blessed

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.

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, figures are running away from a 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 pose 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 frantic figures form a kind of collage, silhouetted against dark background, brightly lit by a woman with a lamp and an eye with a light bulb instead of a pupil. The monochrome painting, reminiscent of newspaper illustrations, and the 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 in the studio of A. Azhbe in Munich and in private academies in Paris. At the beginning of its creative activity Petrov-Vodkin was strongly influenced by the German and French masters of symbolism and “modernism”. He became one of the first to reflect symbolist trends in Russian painting.

Bathing the red horse

History of creation In 1912, Petrov-Vodkin lived in the south of Russia, on an estate near Kamyshin. There is an opinion that the painting was painted in the village of Gusevka. It was then that he made the first sketches for the painting. And also the first, unpreserved version of the canvas, known from black and white photography, was painted. The picture was a work of everyday life rather than symbolic, as happened with the second version; it depicted simply several boys with horses. This first version was destroyed by the author, probably soon after his return to St. Petersburg. Petrov-Vodkin based the horse on a real stallion named Boy, who lived on the estate. To create the image of a teenager sitting astride 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 after becoming acquainted with the color scheme of Novgorod icons, which he was shocked by. The collection and clearing of icons was in its heyday in 1912. From the very beginning, the picture caused numerous disputes, in which it was invariably mentioned that such horses do not exist. However, the artist claimed that he adopted this color from ancient Russian icon painters: for example, in the icon “The Miracle of the Archangel Michael” the horse is depicted completely red. As in the icons, in this picture there is no mixing of colors; the colors are contrasting and seem to collide in confrontation.

Perception of contemporaries The painting so impressed contemporaries with its monumentality and fate that it was reflected in the works of many masters of brush and words. Thus, Sergei Yesenin wrote the following lines: Now I have become stingier in my desires. My life! Or did I dream about you! As if I rode on a pink horse in the echoing early spring. The red horse acts as the Fate of Russia, which the fragile and young rider is unable to hold. According to another version, the Red Horse is Russia itself, identified with Blokov’s “steppe mare.” In this case, one cannot help but note the prophetic gift of the artist, who symbolically predicted with his painting the “red” fate of Russia in the 20th century.

Back in the 30s, 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 the plots of novels and paintings, became prophets. For the Argentine artist and sculptor Benjamin Solari Parravicini, this was not just inspiration, but a prophetic gift.
Without knowing it, back in the 30s he drew many things that he could not even suspect, for example, a television or Belka and Strelka flying into space.
“Sometimes something came over him, he feverishly grabbed a pencil, which seemed to move his hand along the paper, as if someone was dictating something to him,” said Benjamin’s father, Florenzio, during his lifetime.
In one of these attacks of inspiration, he drew angels crying over a huge whirlpool and signed it - Japan.
In notes in the margins, he said that the big "F" would explode and make a lot of noise throughout the earth. It is possible that by “F” he meant the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima-1.

After the devastating tsunami hit, four explosions occurred in power units. This event created incredible information noise throughout the planet. The predictions of the sculptor inspired by the Universe largely coincide with the prophecies of the blind Vanga. He also says that humanity is facing a nuclear catastrophe that will destroy fatal diseases and weakness around the world.
According to his drawings, after the catastrophe, the world will be ruled by Russians and “yellowfaces.” Back in 1936, the master’s sketches and signatures to them 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 ongoing external events” (1938). The first black and white television receivers came into use only in the 50s. Parravicini even managed to make a sketch of the future TV. In the same 1938, he made the following entry: “The world will become impersonal under the power of the home screen. Every family will be affected by the negative influence of the new device, which will later be heavily commercialized in pursuit of the masses. Hypnotized by beautiful pictures of a beautiful paradise, humanity will simply become dull. The day will come when, like sheep in a sheepfold, they will be easily manipulated."


- “The struggle for power between the Yankees and the Russians. The struggle for territory and the conquest of outer space. Oddly enough, the power cup will still go to America (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-seater 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 luminaries and understand that the Earth is only the lowest and most undeveloped of all existing planets” (1937).
The first person to break the sound barrier will be Charles Elwood, 10 years after Benjamin's prophecy.


- “In the 60-70s people will be flying with all their might!” (1938).
Russian pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin will make the first flight in the history of astronautics aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft in 1961.
After that, in the 60-70s. More and more new achievements in astronautics shocked humanity.
Parravicini would later write:
"People will get to the Moon. They will be able to reach it, however, they will not be able to inhabit it. They will see it, but will not be able to look into its depths. They will listen, but will not hear. They will return without returning. Be careful!" (1940, 29 years before the first man landed on the Moon).


"A dog will be the first to fly into space" (1938).
Benjamin foresaw for 19 years 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. These will be the ones who will flood the earth. Those who in the Old Testament called themselves angels and everyone will see and listen to them again” (1938).
It is curious that the term “flying saucer” itself first became publicized only in 1947 after pilot Arnold Kennett described a UFO he saw.


“The atom will come and rule the world” (1939)
Considering that the first attempts to create an atomic bomb occurred in 1945, and the first atomic reactor was launched only in 1951, the prophecy seems impossible.
“In Spain, a dictator will come to power who will destroy the country. After him, Bourbon will ascend to the throne, and then the weakened tyrant will flee to Argentina, if only his health allows him” (1938).
The prophecy was written in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, in the year of the birth of the future King Juan Carlos of Bourbon. Parravicina already then foresaw Franco's victory, his rise to power after the civil war in 1939 and the subsequent transfer of the crown to Juan Carlos after the tyrant's death.
Franco died of Parkinson's disease in 1975, before realizing his intention to move to Argentina.
“Russia will subjugate China and spread its 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 new forms. What yesterday still seemed evil will cease to be so. The Mass will become Protestant without being so. Catholics will turn into Protestants without being them. The Pope will move away from the Vatican because of his travels and will reach America; humanity will fall" (1938).
Benjamin foresaw the 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 travels 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 bound and defeated Nazi leaders.
“The heart of the world will fall in the year 40. It will fall and will belong to the Germans until 1944” (1938).
In 1938, even before the outbreak of World War II, Parravicini already knew about the fall of France in the face of Nazi Germany. In the prophet’s drawing, the Eiffel Tower is clearly visible, against which the French flag looms.
“A man with a beard, who will seem like a saint to everyone, will set the Antilles on fire” (1937)
The revolution in Cuba occurred 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”. The planet will undergo dramatic changes, 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 the ionospheric layer and provoking powerful tremors.
The palm tree most likely refers to the island of Haiti, where the latest earthquake killed at least 200 thousand people and caused the earth's axis to shift several 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 painted 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.


“The alien ship will prove to the population on Earth the existence of another form of life. At one point, the South Pole will turn into the North Pole. 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 reason, general dullness. The world will plunge into darkness." (1934)
"The beginning of the end will come! Man himself will trample on his essence in order to reproduce offspring; a male individual will no longer be needed. Human organisms will be born 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 their mothers Monsters will be born, monsters of animal and plant origin. Because of strontium, people will be born with bones like glass; it will also eat their brains and blood cells; as a result of a nuclear war, Russians and yellow-skinned people will be in a privileged position. ". (1936)