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Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter (theparisreview.org)
12 points by smollett on Oct 18, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


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


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


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


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.


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


Missed that. Fixed now. Thanks!




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