Paris exhibition celebrates the visionary world of Hilma af Klint, an artist ahead of her time
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Paris exhibition celebrates the visionary world of Hilma af Klint, an artist ahead of her time
Several years before Mondrian and Kandinsky were believed to have pioneered visual abstraction, a young Swedish woman named Hilma af Klint produced a series of strikingly original artworks that were way ahead of their time. Long hidden away from the world in a secret vault, her major work, the “Paintings for the Temple”, is now on display in France for the first time at a groundbreaking exhibition at Paris’s Grand Palais.
The documentary "The Double Life of Hilma af Klint, Painter and Pioneer of Abstract Art" reveals this little-known Swedish artist (1862-1944) and attempts to provide insights into her work, with the help of her descendants and art historians. A pioneer, several years before Kandinsky and Mondrian, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint painted some of the first abstract canvases in art history, which remained hidden from view for many years. Accordin…
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