Yeah I agree. It’s still called exponential growth, even if it’s temporary.

Got it thanks!

And with that I personally think they got a little too carried away

You think that the artists got top carried away, as in with abstraction in general, or wanting thier work to be more open to interpretation?

Can someone elaborate on this?

which he believed was as independent of descriptive reality as was music

I’m understanding it as ‘his art was as literally descriptive of his subjects as music is’. But maybe it’s more about an inability to describe the artworks themselves?