Fasfem watches : BEYOND THE VISIBLE, Hilma af Klint
When I came across one of her paintings - first in row on the gallery below - I felt the familiarity giving me the goosebumps. It reminded me of fasfem palette, the colours I had chosen to create my mood board for my site’s design. It was only three years ago …but the painting dated back to 1907!
It was by a Passerbuy’s post on Instagram that I was intrigued and did some more research on the lady behind those marvelous huge paintings, my palette’s ancestor included:
Hilma af Klint. Born in Sweden in !862, studied arts and lived all her life there. Weared black, always. Being spiritual has urged her to create a group with four other female artists called De Fem. Made seances with them - it was the thing for intellectuals back then as quantum physic’s foundations were established which explored the unknown. She created hundreds of abstract paintings, before Mondrian and Kandinsky ever did. But we never knew that until recently..her art was firstly shown in Los Angeles in 1986 and the exhibition at Guggenheim Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future is the most recent.
But I wanted to know; why was this genius kept away from the history of art? Maybe because it has been the history of male genius thus far? What about the future though? I have decided to watch the documentary by Halina Dryschka to find out. Would you care to join me?
