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Premonitions

(c) 2003 by Paul Hall. About artwork that foresees the future, premonitions in the artwork of Paul Hall, elements that have occurred in the abstract expressionist or surrealist expressionist techniques in the artwork of artist Paul Hall that successfully predicted future situations at an average remove of one or two decades, premonitions that have happened, the usefulness of intuitive artists, surprising facets of abstract expressionism, hindsight of artwork over a span of 36 years verifies something in certain early works of the future.

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Also, premonition in a more humorous application

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PREMONITIONS. (The introduction page.)

And you thought art was nothing more than visual stimulation. It's a deeper tool than anyone can imagine. Among other things, it can envision the future. It takes us to the edge of our understanding as well as using our most intuitive sense, that of sight.

The fact that many of these realized premonitions discussed herein weren't momentous or earth shattering or whathaveyou is immaterial. What is significant is that the phenomenon was actually observed and actual instances recorded. This article is the introduction and the ensuing articles comprise some actual examples or premonitary abstract expressionism and premonitary surrealism.

It's like Lewis Carol's story "Alice Through the Looking Glass", or like George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", but in this case sometimes I find myself in the scenes I paint.

Actually I did go through the looking glass as well in New York City. ( Click here to go to the article that mentions that occurrence. )

Premonitions of an Outer Banks Dawn

Special page discussing the work of art I did called "A Premonition of an Outer Banks Dawn". In the article by me, the artist, I describe how the painting seems to predict a future event twenty years later three thousand miles away. There may have been a greater remove to the past from when the work was done in that leaky Oakland, California studio than that to the future. I may have envisioned the first person to have happened upon the Outer Banks besides also predicting that I would go there two and one-half decades or so later.

Premonitions of the Cliffs of Interstate Ninety-One

Driving down the highway I had a now-familiar realization: elements of a painting done thirty years earlier. Then later when I saw that hot air balloon from Quechee drift overhead while I was driving I-91, that clinched it. Most of my artwork, I hadn't been paying attention to, but this time it rang a bell in my memories of the work I did three decades ago before I-91 in Vermont even existed.

Visions of the Seven Walkways of Gold

They started their pilgrimage on the forest floor, shown in the painting in the far right toward the background, they proceeded to walk steadily up the paths on whatever path they took, any of all seven. When they reached the tip, they kept going.

Premonition of Mount Roskill, New Zealand

... there it was, sure enough. I thought it was just an inspiration to set down some colors and do my best to as quickly as possible before the "inspiration" melted away, get it down on canvass. So twenty years later it socked me right in the face ... sure enough, it was the scene I had painted twenty years earlier.

Premonition of Gold Fields in Desert Places (Maybe outside of Tenant Creek, Australia)

Once again I happened on an area with gold mines and there may have been an abandoned one just below where I sat on high red rocks like the ones in the painting.

Premonition of the Checkmate at Dawn

Unlike the work "The Checkmate of the Red King in a Mountain Rainstorm", this work depicts the checkmate of the White King by surprise in a pre-dawn preemptive strike indicating stealth and night battle capability of the opposing force, which, oddly enough, is not a red knight but a white one, indicating treachery within, civil war or a defeat from a former ally.

Premonition of the Indonesian Passar

-- article as of yet unfinished, just the painting is shown. It was remarkably like the Passar around the corner from the Jalan Darmawansa house where I lived in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Premonition of Stormy Polynesia

I felt like I had gone overboard on Lewis Carol's "Alice Through the Looking Glass" concept of escaping one's world by entering a depiction of another. It's taken me this long to realize that perhaps it was this 1979 storm I was depicting back in the 1966 Greenwich Village studio.

Premonition of Overgrown Skyscrapers

There comes a time when the city is abandoned and becomes overgrown.

Premonition of Zig Zag the Clown

Over the Placement

A poem that predicts the need for irradiating postage. But wait till you get to the part about the arctic thawing out.

Premonition of Twin Towers' Collapse

It wasn't even a painting this time, all I had was a sketch pad.

Premonition of Old Town, San Diego

Forty years later, I look out of the apartment at a winter sunset, and I got the now familiar feeling of recognizing a premonition that I had painted long ago. But who would have thought it to be "The Fifteen Minute Break" ?