Hilma af Klint: Visualizing the Spirit World

The art world has been knocked off its feet by <a href="https://www.hilmaafklint.se/about-hilma-af-klint/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hilma af Klint</a>. Shaken by a completely unknown woman artist who, 69 years after her death, challenges the historic timeline and authorship of abstract painting. af Klint’s work is bright, bold, often monumental in scale, and decidedly non-representative in nature. Her paintings flatten 2-dimensional space in a way that pre-dates Wassily Kandinsky and the modernists by a few years that has initiated a debate about who invented abstract painting. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:600/0*j8YkZCXU5_wrPU3P" style="height:842px; width:600px" /> Hilma af Klint in her studio in 1895 It gets even more interesting —shortly after graduating with honors from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweeden, Hilma af Klint rejected her formal training in favor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Spiritualism</a> and joined Madame Blavatsky’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Theosophical Society</a> in 1889. There she met four other like-minded women and founded “The Five” in 1896. The group held spiritual séances, regularly communicating with spirits, taking detailed notes and practiced automatic drawing. <a href="https://medium.com/nightingale/hilma-af-klint-visualizing-the-spirit-world-bb54781d9beb">Click Here</a>