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Paradoxically delicate and powerful, the art of Hilma af Klint quietly and privately delivers a loud and essential message. Creating abstract canvases five years prior to the first by Wassily Kandinsky, and experimenting with writing and drawing guided by the unconscious decades before the Surrealists, the woman was a pioneer.
Hilma af Klint (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɪ̂lːma ˈɑːv ˈklɪnːt]; 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history.
Predominantly abstract, these monumental paintings represent four stages of human development: childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. Botanical references convey her view of humanity’s connection to the natural world. Words invented by the artist, or received from spirits, appear throughout, sometimes as wildly looping text.
Adulthood, The Ten Largest, No 5-8, Group IV – Moderna Museet Guide – Stockholm. Adulthood, The Ten Largest, No 5-8, Group IV, 1907. Hilma af Klint. Runtime: 02:07. Narrator: The four paintings with a purple background represent the different phases of adult life. The pink flower that is uppermost in the first of these paintings has five petals.
19 de ago. de 2022 · No. 7, Adulthood (1907) by Hilma af Klint; Hilma af Klint, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons From the title of the work, one can derive that the work also has to do with human evolution. Af Klint’s botanical studies often included the close reading of Darwin’s research on evolution theory and, being interested in science, this ...
When Hilma af Klint began creating abstract paintings in 1906, they were bold, colorful, and untethered from any recognizable references to the physical world.
15 de oct. de 2018 · In af Klint’s case, there’s the further hitch that, on her own terms, she operated outside time. “Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood,” from 1907. Photograph by Albin Dahlström ...
