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Hilma af Klint - No. 7, Adulthood 1907

4/20/2020

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Hilma af Klint - No. 7, Adulthood 1907 Oil and tempera on paper and canvas - Hilma af Klint Foundation
"Life is a farce if a person does not serve truth." Hilma af Klint
Hearing that the Crown Princess of Sweden has trained to become a medical assistant so that she may volunteer in the fight of covid -19 in her country made me think of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint 1862 -1944. Specifically the feminine and bold No. 7, Adulthood 1907. 

About the Artist from Wikipedia 
Hilma af Klint  was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were among the first Western abstract art.  A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women who shared her belief in the importance of trying to make contact with the so-called "High Masters"—often by way of séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.
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About the piece from thearrtstory.com
No. 7 painting, of the The Ten Largest series of the Paintings for the Temple, is at once meditative like an ancient mandala (a geometric pattern of Buddhist and Hindu origin said to represent a microcosm of the whole universe), and dynamic like a changing piece of music. The large painting, over three meters in height and two meters wide, is composed of free-flowing organic forms of different sizes and colors (bright yellow, red, green, light blue, and white) set against a lilac background, punctuated by lines at once diagrammatic and scripted.

Resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/af-klint-hilma/life-and-legacy/#nav
https://www.vogue.com/article/princess-sofia-of-sweden-medical-assistant-to-help-fight-covid-19



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