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About the artist Hilma af Klint | Moderna Museet i Stockholm
Women artists you should know: Hilma af Klint (1862–1944)
The Swedish painter & mystic made some of the first abstract art - then kept it hidden for 20 years after her death. The world wasn’t ready.
Rose Florencesubstack.comHilma af Klint
youtu.beMost of the famous painters of that era, including Agnes Pelton, Hilma af Klint, and Georgia O’Keeffe have read the book “ Thought Forms ” (1905), by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant. This book made a big influence on the art world at that time, allowing artists to explore mysticism and the occult in their own work.
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Las Cinco / De Fem
https://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/spiritual-drawings-of-the-five-ca-1903-04
Las Cinco, o en sueco, De Fem, como se autodenominaban, creían comunicarse con seres de conciencia superior a quienes llamaban guías o Grandes Maestros.
Al entrar en estado de trance o usar un dispositivo llamado psicógrafo, que supuestamente registraba
... See moreGone would be any semblance of human forms which she so fervently studied and perfected in Academy classes. Gone would be the Renaissance training which dictated shadows and color theories, methods that guided all her teachers efforts. And gone would be any set of conventions or rules of what is or isn't art. Hundreds of new visionary paintings
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