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Hilma Af Klint
""" How to say? Those paintings have something very 21th century. In some way they are very near from the spirit of my own works. Sure I also recognize the difference in terms of simplicity / complexity. But science had still a long way to go in Af Klint's time. """
in The Guardian by Adrian Searle:
""" Hilma af Klint claimed to be a clairvoyant who was told by spirit voices to paint 'on the astral plane'.
Before she died, at the age of 81 in 1944, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint stipulated that her paintings were not to be shown in public for 20 years after her death. Perhaps she felt that the world was not yet ready for them. In some respects, the world never will be ready for the occult symbolism and spiritualist gibberish that her work was derived from, and from which she gained her inspiration. Although the same peculiar beliefs attend the work of pioneering artists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky and Malevich, they never suggested, as did Af Klint, that their work was guided by an imaginary "leader in the spiritual world". For Af Klint, this was a certain Ananda, who in 1904 told her "she was to execute paintings on the astral plane"."""
URL: Ad rian Searle on Hilma af Klint's revelatory paintings
URL: Hilma Af Klint - Brief Article in ArtForum by Ronald Jones
URL: The Hilma af Klint Foundation.
