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With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys basic formal elements such as arcs, circles, planes, and stripes to create powerful works that are at once subtle and eccentric. This extraordinary book, designed in collaboration with the artist herself, is a substantial and deeply insightful treatment of her career to date and features sixty works made over the past decade. Essays not only contextualize Abts's work within an art-historical framework of methods, process, and style, but also examine her paintings' philosophical and psychological dimensions and their embodiment of a creative process that transcends the specifics of any particular work. The beautifully designed and illustrated exhibition catalogue examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts's painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions.

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When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint's radically abstract painting practice―one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements and esoteric symbolism.

Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of her life and art. Essays explore the social, intellectual and artistic context of af Klint's 1906 break with figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars and curators considers af Klint's sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to display her art―a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda, the site of the exhibition.

Painting --- Klint, Hilma A.F. --- Klint, Hilma af, --- abstracte schilderkunst --- Painting, Abstract --- Spiritualism in art --- Women painters --- Painting, Swedish --- folklore --- occultisme --- spiritualiteit --- Kandinsky, Wassily --- Klint, Hilma af --- Zweden --- Af Klint, Hilma --- folklore. --- spiritualiteit. --- occultisme. --- Af Klint, Hilma. --- Kandinsky, Wassily. --- Zweden.

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"At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of twentieth-century abstraction. Like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was interested in the invisible relationships that scientists at the turn of the century were discovering shape the world. She strongly believed in a spiritual dimension to the universe and devoted her life to an exploration of this realm. Hilma af Klint's process of investigation took many forms and drew on systems and symbols outside the traditional language of art. Notes and Methods traces the origins of her powerful abstract work. Included are the mediumistic drawings she created with the group of women who called themselves The Five; Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens, a spiritual explication of the plant world; and the Blue Books, in which af Klint catalogued her most important body of work, The Paintings for the Temple. Notes and Methods is the first extensive English translation of the writings of Hilma af Klint. In addition to translations of all notebooks reproduced, Notes and Methods also includes Letters and Words Pertaining to Works by Hilma af Klint, an invaluable guide to the meaning behind the work, compiled by Hilma af Klint herself"

Kunst --- spiritualisme --- Abstract [kunststijl] --- Klint, Hilma A.F. --- Hilma af Klint --- Art --- spiritualism --- Abstract [fine arts style] --- Painting, Abstract --- Spirit art --- Spirituality in art --- 741.07 --- Klint, Hilma af 1862-1944 (°Solna, Zweden) --- Abstracte schilderkunst ; biomorfisme --- Thema's in de kunst : mystiek en spiritualiteit --- Kunst en esoterie ; het occulte --- Theosofie --- Antroposofie --- Abstract painting --- Non-objective painting --- Painting, Non-objective --- Painting, Modern --- Psychic art --- Spiritualism --- Tekenkunst ; tekenkunstenaars A - Z --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- Aesthetics. --- af Klint, Hilma --- Abstract [modern European style] --- Peinture abstraite --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Klint, Hilma af

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