Word: hindsight
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...Hindsight makes it seem inevitable that Mondrian, believing this, should move away from objects. But in its period, Mondrian's road toward total abstraction was as audacious as it was lonely. In 1911, he first saw some cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque at a show in Holland. His pictorial intelligence could not resist the challenge. But the concrete, specific nature of cubist painting hindered him. Thus Mondrian's paintings after 1911 show him wrestling to keep the integrated pattern of Cubism while dispensing with solid form. Tree (1912), with its sober tones of gray, green and brown...
Inflated Blues. Picasso's immature work has benefited greatly from hindsight and feedback. The slides flick, the familiar images succeed one another-the young painter chewing his way through Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Gauguin, Munch, Steinlen and a host of other influences that crowded upon him in Barcelona and, after 1900, in Paris. There is no consolidated style in Picasso's career until, aged 21, he starts moving into the Blue and Pink periods...
...makes one shudder to think how many other top-secret documents are in the hands of dedicated public servants gifted with prophetic hindsight such as Daniel Ellsberg...
...press for revealing the Pentagon papers, but added: "We wish they had started earlier." One defense applicable to both press and officialdom came from John Roche in the New Leader: "History is a very different thing when you are approaching it head-on rather than with 20-20 hindsight...
This blind spot enables Dumont to gloss over the real angonies of policy decisions. With the effective aid of hindsight he can confidently, even arrogantly, quantify any situation. As predictability is a solid test of analytic accuracy. Dumont could have better conveyed his self-confidence with some forecasts about Cuba's sugar production. Instead he wavers, refusing to commit himself in this controversial area...