Other members took different directions: Prendergast utilized the decorative patterns of colour he found in the work of the French
Nabi group in his translations of the American landscape; Davies painted dreamy, twilight scenes evolved from lyrical allegories rather than from contemporary life; Lawson adopted a style that was lyrically atmospheric.
It is further, created and sustained as a
group phenomenon; and to «prophesy» (from the same root as
nabi») primarily denotes ecstatic behavior, if this state or action of prophesying is initially induced, it is capable of spread by contagion.