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Hilma Af Klint

Hilma Af Klint (1862 - 1944) was active/lived in Sweden.  Hilma Klint is known for Large scale abstract painting, high color patterns and designs.

Biography photo for Hilma Af Klint
"Hilma Who? No More," By Roberta Smith, October 11, 2018, The New York Times, Exhibition Review
of "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future", Oct. 12 through Feb. 3 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan
   
If you like to hallucinate but disdain the requisite stimulants, spend some time in the Guggenheim Museum’s staggering exhibition, “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future.” The museum’s High Gallery — the name has added resonance in this context — displays the show’s rapturous overture, a series of 10 paintings by af Klint (1862-1944), a little-known Swedish painter, modernist pioneer and erstwhile spiritualist. Collectively titled “The Ten Largest,” they may induce disorientation, not the least for the way they blow open art history.

These game-changing works envelop you in hues from dusty orange to pale pinks and lavenders, tumbling compositions of circles, spirals and pinwheels, and unfurling ribbonlike lines that sometimes form   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10451 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Hilma Af Klint available:    Johan Pasch I,  Victor Forssell,  Emma Amalia Ekwall,  Elisabeth Keyser,  Rikard Lindstrom,  Christian Fredrik Swensson,  Charlotte Constance Wahlstrom,  Gunnar Brusewitz,  Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz,  Gustaf Carlstrom,  David von Krafft,  Hugo Birger,  Gustaf Olof Cederstrom,  Sam Uhrdin,  Erik Tryggelin,  Johan Krouthen,  Carl Skanberg,  Johan Ericson,  Alf Wallander,  Axel Wallert,  Thure Wallner,  Pehr Hillestrom,  Josephina Holmlund,  Johan Philip Korn



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Hilma Af Klint


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Large Scale, Monumental Artwork
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Added Description
  • Unique Life Story/ First in Something
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Swedish
Exhibition of Museum
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting

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