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An exhibition of paintings by Swedish artist Hilma af Klint broke attendance records at New York’s Guggenheim museum. Now the first major Asia-Pacific survey of af Klint’s work is on at the Art Gallery of NSW.
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Hilma af Klint: how a “crazy, remote woman” upstaged male art heroes We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement 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 t...
Mathematics and spirituality: decoding Hilma af Klint’s work A brief overview of the Swedish artist’s esoteric paintings You may recognize Hilma af Klint’s works from their abstract shapes in bold tones of purple, yellow, orange and blue. Combining distinct floral and geometric elements, the Swedish artist’s paintings were greatly inspired by the stages of life. Born in Stockholm in 1862, af Klint went on to study at Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Meanwhile, she began to immerse herself in spiritualism and Theosophy, a religious movement established in the late 19th century. According to...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales will present Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, the first major survey in the Asia Pacific region of visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), whose remarkable body of abstract and mystical paintings bring new perspectives to the narratives of modern art and has become an international sensation. When af Klint began creating her ambitious new works in 1906, no one had seen paintings like hers before – so monumental in scale, with ...