Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/12/the-first-abstract-painter-was-a-woman/

by smollett • 8 years ago

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smollett• 8 years ago

There's also https://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_the_swedish_mystic_....

atombender• 8 years ago

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.

da_murvel• 8 years ago

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.

biztos• 8 years ago

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

dang• 8 years ago

Missed that. Fixed now. Thanks!

vertline32• 8 years ago

Whistlers falling rocket (nocturne in black and gold), sort of blurs the line

vertline32• 8 years ago

Thinking more we have Turner making everything super blurry to the point that it's just fields of color.

erikpukinskis• 8 years ago

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...

dalex00• 8 years ago

I stumbled two weeks ago across her through following picture. https://goo.gl/images/EhsqdP

Totally flashed me

Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter

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