Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint is hardly known possibly because of her ties to the spiritual and the occult. In 1880 when her younger sister Hermina died, Hilma began to focus her energies towards the spiritual. Her interest in abstraction and symbolism began to appear frequently in her paintings. She became interested in the Theosophy of Madame Blavatsky and the philosophy of Christian Rosencreutz. She belonged to the group of "The Five,” women inspired to connect with the "High Masters,” by way of séances. They opened each meeting with a prayer, followed by a meditation, a sermon, and an analysis of a passage from the New Testament. In this environment Hilda received instruction from an angel named Amaliel who gave her instructions for her famous “Paintings for the Temple.”
In her work with The Five, she created drawings with geometric shapes that conceptualized invisible forces in the inner and outer worlds. She explored world religions, atoms, the plant world, and wrote extensively about her discoveries. Hilma explained that the pictures were painted through her with force, “I had no idea what they were supposed to represent. I worked quickly and confidently without changing a single brush stroke. I felt like I was being directed by a force that was literally guiding my hand.” The artistic world of Hilma af Klint is saturated with symbols, letters, and words. Her paintings often represent dualities, earthly and esoteric, male, and female, and good and evil. Hilma af Klint left all her abstract paintings to her nephew, Erik af Klint. She wanted her work to be kept secret for at least 20 years after her death. After those 20 years, Erik af Klint donated all of Hilda’s drawings and paintings to a foundation bearing her name. Hilma chose painting to show harmony between the spiritual and material, good and evil, man and woman, and religion and science. She was a secret painter, nearly invisible, and she wanted it that way.
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