The historian of ideas has to turn to Lessing's Laocoon to find an early genesis and persistent horizon concerning the problematic issue of time in the visual arts. Many studies have afforded the distinction between temporal arts (music and literature) and spatial arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, dance), trying to show how such opposition is actually anything but irredeemable. The aim of this essay is to reconsider the ways in which future time may be a subject for visual representations. Furthermore, it considers the value of future time from the aesthetic point of view, and the meaning of the concept of "future time" in visual art
