Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter(theparisreview.org)
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Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/12/the-first-abstract-painter-was-a-woman/
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I was just at the Guggenheim exhibition. I liked some of the paintings, but I wasn't really moved by it; I was much more taken by her naturalist paintings and sketches of insects (which were in the minority). However, it was intriguing to think about how these paintings were conceived nearly in isolation, preceding the abstract art movement by almost a decade.
There are a bunch of good high res photos of some of her serious abstract works here: https://www.julochka.com/2014/05/theosophic-works-hilma-af-k...
I stumbled two weeks ago across her through following picture.
https://goo.gl/images/EhsqdP
Totally flashed me
Totally flashed me
The surname is wrong in the title, it should be Klint, not Klimt. It's an interesting read however, although I'm no art expert by any means, I've always liked abstract paintings as they have a sort of liberating effect on my mind where the imagination in some cases can run completely it's own course.
Missed that. Fixed now. Thanks!
And Klimt of course was a very different artist, not particularly abstract unless you count the decorative elements, and very, very male.
Which makes the slip in the title here a bit poignant, as a lot of people think it was gender bias that kept af Klint out of the art canon for so long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt
Which makes the slip in the title here a bit poignant, as a lot of people think it was gender bias that kept af Klint out of the art canon for so long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt