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Kandinsky and Pollock have been acclaimed as the pioneers of abstract art. Overlooking the Swedish artist who was inspired by seances with female friends.
Hilma af Klint: how a “crazy, remote woman” upstaged male art heroes
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Some paintings are worthy of pilgrimage. But for Halina Dyrschka, there are some paintings that are so extraordinary, they are journeys in themselves. In 2013, the Berlin-based filmmaker saw a series of works called
The Ten Largest, by a Swedish mystic called Hilma af Klint in a German newspaper. The images transported her so vividly, she lost the ability to describe them.
“When I saw her paintings, I thought ‘it cannot be’,” says Dyrschka, who would later visit the exhibition
After breaking Guggenheim records, Hilma af Klintâs work is headed down under
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More than 75 years since the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint died in obscurity and two years after she became an overseas word-of-mouth sensation, the Art Gallery of NSW is to launch the first major survey of the artist in the Asia Pacific.
Hilma af Klint:
The Secret Paintings will open on June 12, supported by Destination NSW which is banking on the show driving local and interstate tourism with its mystery of a pioneering abstract artist and occultist who believed her art was a ârevelationâ from higher guides from the spirit world.