Vatic:
vatic (comparative more vatic, superlative most vatic)
- Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular. [Wiktionary]
I’ve not heard that one before. Noted in “This once-in-a-generation Rothko exhibition is spellbinding,” Sebastian Smee, WaPo:
That same feeling is recaptured in Paris, where the first galleries show Rothko digesting the influences of such artists as Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, Joan Miró, Adolph Gottlieb, André Masson and Henri Matisse. (Matisse’s “The Red Studio,” with its drenching, space-flattening reds, was decisive in tipping Rothko over into abstraction.) Gradually, he moves from painting street scenes, theaters and subways to surrealistic imagery drawn from the unconscious, then to vatic, symbol-laden compositions inspired by Nietzsche’s idea of tragedy.
