Creative Codex 52: Hilma af Klint • Painting the Unseen • Part 1: Life & Death & Art
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Jul 2, 2025 Discover the groundbreaking journey of Hilma af Klint, a pioneer of abstract art, whose spiritual connections influenced her creative vision. Explore how grief shaped her artistic expression and inspired her group, The Five, to communicate with higher realms. The influence of 19th-century spiritualism and feminism on her work offers a fascinating perspective on women's roles in art. Uncover the transformation of spirit communication, from psychographs to automatic drawings, and how af Klint's philosophy reshaped the art world.
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Art Ahead Of Its Time
- Hilma af Klint created highly abstract, spiritually guided paintings decades before abstraction was recognized.
- She preserved them with instructions to wait 20 years after her death to reveal them to a receptive world.
Classical Training, Later Vision
- Hilma trained in classical figure drawing and excelled at academic techniques at the Royal Academy.
- Her technical mastery disproves claims that her later abstraction came from lack of craft.
Formation Of The Five
- In 1896 Hilma joined De Fem (The Five), a close group of women who held seances and recorded visions.
- Their meetings combined ritual, scripture, Theosophy, and automatic imagery that shaped Hilma's later work.
