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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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"Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz (1892-1963) in Switzerland developed an individual, abstract pictorial language. What they had in common was a desire to make visible the laws of nature, the intellect and the supernatural. Their works are being presented side by side for the first time in an exhibition. The three women artists all found their artistic language within the context of the spiritual movements of their times: Houghton in spiritism, af Klint in theosophy and Kunz in naturopathy. Their artworks bear witness to a 'mediumistic' praxis: Houghton and af Klint were inspired by higher beings to paint, while Kunz developed her drawings with the help of a pendulum. In addition, the volume shows stills by Harry Smith and James and John Whitney, who - inspired by various occult movements - made experimental films during the 1940s"--Publisher's website
Painting --- mysticism --- abstracte schilderkunst --- spiritualiteit --- Houghton, Georgiana --- Klint, Hilma A.F. --- Kunz, Emma --- abstracte kunst --- esoterie --- film --- natuur --- Klint, Hilma af --- Smith, Harry --- Whitney, James --- Whitney, John --- Film --- Abstract [fine arts style] --- Smith, Harry Everett --- abstracte, niet-figuratieve kunst --- Af Klint, Hilma --- Mysticism and art --- Spirituality in art --- Art, Abstract --- 7.037 --- Klint, Hilma af 1862-1944 (°Solna, Zweden) --- Houghton, Georgiana 1814 – 1884 (°Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) --- Kunz, Emma 1892-1963 (°Brittnau, Aargau, Zwitserland) --- Whitney, John 1917-1995 (°Pasadena, CA, Verenigde Staten) --- Smith, Harry Everett 1923-1991 (°Portland, Oregon, Verenigde Staten) --- Abstracte kunst ; 20ste eeuw ; ontstaan en ontwikkeling --- Art and mysticism --- Art --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1900 - 1950 --- Houghton, Georgiana, --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Kunz, Emma, --- Whitney, John, --- Whitney, James, --- Smith, Harry Everett, --- Smith, Harry, --- Whitney, John H. --- Whitney, John Hales, --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- Houghton, --- af Klint, Hilma --- abstracte kunst. --- natuur. --- spiritualiteit. --- esoterie. --- film. --- Houghton, Georgiana. --- Af Klint, Hilma. --- Kunz, Emma. --- Whitney, John. --- Whitney, James. --- Smith, Harry. --- Abstract [modern European style]
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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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