The First Abstract Expressionists: Carl Jung and Hilma af Klint
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.comLearning that Jackson Pollock laid his canvases on the ground and incorporated whole body movement into creating his paintings has made me appreciate abstract art a little more than I did. I love the idea of using direction and speed to drip paint instead of precision. I learned that his method was very intuitive and meant to represent his psyche.
... See moreMost 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.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Denial of Your Creativity Fuels Planetary Degeneration
the making of Liber Novus was by no means a peculiar and idiosyncratic activity, nor the product of a psychosis. Rather, it indicates the close intersections between psychological and artistic experimentation with which many individuals were engaged at this time.