The Visionary Genius Hilma af Klint: Explore the Spiritual World of the very first Abstract Artist
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- The artist Hilma af Klint was the true pioneer of abstract art, producing abstract paintings five years before Kandinsky. Find out more in this Hilma af Klint biography. The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint was born on 26 October 1862, at the Karlberg Palace in Solna, Sweden, the naval academy where her father was based. She was the fourth of five children born to Mathilda and Victor af Klint who were both staunch Protestants. Most of her childhood was spent in the Karlberg Palace, but during the summers, the family would move to Adelso, an island in Lake Malaren, near Stockholm. It was here that Hilma's fascination with nature and organic life began.
In 1880 she attended the Technical School, now known as Konstfack, and studied classical portraiture under the supervision of the artist Kerstin Cardon. Around this time, she became a committed vegetarian, usually wore black and began to develop an interest in the spiritual and the occult.
At the age of 20 in 1882, Hilma enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She was one of the first women to do so and spent the next five years studying drawing, portraiture and landscape painting. She graduated with honours and as a result, was awarded a studio in the Academy’s “Atelier Building”, in Stockholm's artist quarter.
In 1896 she joined the Edelweiss Society but left soon after with four other like-minded women artists and founded the “Friday Group”, also known as “The Five”. They met for spiritual meetings, meditation and séances. The medium, Sigrid Hedman, one of the five, led exercises in automatic writing. This was decades before the Surrealists would use automatic drawing to generate their ideas.
In 1904 Hilma af Klint’s work profoundly changed after an otherworldly experience. During a séance, she claimed to have heard a voice telling her to make paintings 'on an astral plane'.
So, in November 1906 at age 44, Hilma af Klint began creating, ‘The Paintings for the Temple,’ which comprised several series of paintings on various themes. The first, preparatory group was called Primordial Chaos and consisted of twenty-six small pictures. They break free entirely from representation, combining geometric shapes such as spirals with dynamic brushstrokes, letters of the alphabet and symbols. It was a conscious decision on her part to keep these works secret, only showing them to a small, very select group of friends.
Hilma af Klint shared an interest in the spiritual with the other pioneers of abstract art including Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian. And like Hilma af Klint many were drawn to Theosophy, which opened a route towards a new world of spiritual reality, rather than merely depicting visual impressions of the world around them.
Had she not kept her abstract work secret she would surely have held the accolade of producing the world’s first abstract paintings. Instead, Kandinsky’s paintings of 1911 would, until recently, come to be recognised as the first abstract works of art.
Hilma af Klint did not have any contact with the modern movements of her time, yet she is now generally considered to be the pioneer of abstract art - her first abstract painting created in 1906, pre-dates Kandinsky’s by five years.
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"The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke." by Hilma af Klint
Great quote.
Love this quote!
The Point. The Radius. The Circle...Are we not going to going to talk about the whole, High Masters thing?...changes her whole perspective over night, from Young Boy and Summer Landscapes, to astral planes and primordial chaos, but whatever...okay lol. See this quote. Its 2021 we can just call it for what it is. High Master Intercession is High Master Intercession. Let's accept it, get the implication, and keep it pushing accordingly. But let's at least take a moment to acknowledge at the very least, that part of the story as something to pause and ponder sincerely.
Just lovely ♥️♥️❤️
Tis The Arts 🎨
It’s so crazy I’ve never heard of her before. Her work is simply stunning.
Certainly is
I barely know of her and I live in Stockholm.
@@lyndahuggus4880 you missed one amazing exhibition in Stockholm but part of her work is back at the modern museum, you can't miss it.
Marketing mainly paid by those who wants to sell paintings..doesn't represent the whole painters
I was lucky enough to catch her massive retrospective at the Guggenheim a few years ago. Cosmic communication rendered with thin paint. Very charged, vibrant work that seemed to have been painted yesterday. Truly messages to the future now!
She was a great painter
me too.
Well presented as this was a difficult subject. The motivation of artists with serious spiritual beliefs can be trivialized, but you did a great job. She was a real Outsider artist.
Thank you much appreciated.
I agree 100%
I mean it's interesting you call her an outsider artist; she had formal training and recognition for her more conventional works, just a rich spiritual life that helped elevate her personal work
@@coolestnerdever122 Outsider artist does not come with a clear definition, many famous Outsider artists are trained but they have a place outside the mainstream.
@@coolestnerdever122 you.re right she was out of the ordinary but in this context an outsider is an artist that doesn t participate in events such as exhibitions. She was not interested in belonging to this world and I can understand why, she was free to decide which is good.
As an abstract artist who does a lot of automatic spiritual work, this is so interesting. I also only show few my most authentic works, most don’t understand or want to. This has made me feel significantly less alone in my admiration for the true flow and essence of the life of art
Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
Ah yes, "the life of art"!
Do you read any books about automatic transmission? Have any recommendations?
@@raing8942 I’m not a big reader unfortunately but automatic drawing, channeled drawing (meditation and allowing shapes to form within my mind or the page), and strong intentions pretty much encompass what I do! Since this time, I’ve actually started working seriously on this type of work and will be releasing to the public soon! I’d be weary of researching too much on the internet about magick but art magick has deepened my studies of ritualistic art, channeling, any symbolism. Truly, it’s about letting your human essence tell the story, not your society constructed mind that demands perfection.
The best way to start is to just quiet your mind and let go of expectations and just create! Good luck on your journey!!
@@raing8942 one of the top comments quoted her and i think it perfectly illustrates what i mean!
Dear Sir, to say that you are a brilliant narrator is an uderstatement. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and in this occasion for speaking about this unique and interesting artist. I wish I was as talented as her. I also deeply admire Louise Bourgeoise and Jenny Saville among others. Art saved my life. Thank you again.
You are most welcome and thank you for your kind comment.
Her work predates many of the pioneers of the great movements of abstract art and science of the last century. Fascinating. She was all of them before they were themselves.
Very True
Thank you,I can only imagine how many other female artists work we've yet to discover, leonora Carrington is another one I recently found, and it's exciting to see these beautiful pieces of Art.
There are a lot out there waiting to be discovered I'm sure. Glad you liked the video. Cheers
Wow I just had a look at her work. Beautiful
Maybe you would like the work of Leonor Fini as well.
@@Lord_Heron I just. Saw it,amazing work, thank you🤗for recommending it.
@@cruzyferreria1009 You are welcome, I agree her work is amazing.
Love how I’m constantly discovering women who did it before men, and better than men. Also the, “and they were roommates” trope- classic.
Cheers
You are an artist's true friend. This is so well-presented. We artists live sometimes, in a world of our own and learning about another artist such as Hilma, is so comforting. Thank you so much!!! USA
Thank you! Cheers from England
My profound gratitude to you; I have heard and read about Hilma several times but this video brought me to tears and I can't explain why.
Really pleased you enjoyed my video. Cheers
Her work touches soul deep and that is impossible to put into words, but it has the feeling of home and the bliss of that ecstatic purity.
This was great! I saw her exhibit at the Guggenheim a few years ago and went to see it 4 times. Her work, spirituality and life inspire me so much. Thanks for making this.
She was/is very under rated as an artist.
I never heard of Hilma! Thank you for introducing me to her wonderful lifetime work.
You are very welcome.
I like that you provide her age under the years of the various events of her life. Very helpful to imagine the stages of her life.
Glad you think so. Cheers
What a wonderful presentation. I took my nephew (9yo) to see her show at the Guggenheim - we loved it and he especially enjoyed meeting Chris Pine (an actor that makes action hero films) and he was very polite. Guess we all bonded over her work. She was definitely Extraordinary
Glad you enjoyed my video. She certainly was a trail blazer. Cheers
this is now my favorite art history channel. THANK U
That's great, thanks
Absolutely amazing woman .. and I had never heard of her. Thank you for featuring her and her marvellous works in many styles. She an originator, a pioneer and truly gifted. How did it take until 1986 to see her abstract work and 2013 before it was truly unleashed ... ?
Great artist, but she stipulated her work should not be displayed until at least 20 years after her death.
I've been making a lot of art lately. Two people spontaneously mentioned Hilma af Klint to me when they saw my work. Some of the parallels are uncanny. Now I'm utterly fascinated by her and her journey! Thank you for this beautiful and informative video.
Glad you enjoyed the video, Hilma was a great painter. Good luck with your work. Cheers
I've had the pleasure to experience Hilma's outstanding giant works in NYC in 2018; they are profound. I (like many I assume) am drawn to her amazing vision and fearless talent.🖤🙏💛
You are right, she was a much under-rated talent who ought to be given more recognition.
@@ArtHistorySchool I believe now (that her works are being shown) the world will notice and champion/embrace her pioneering vision and masterful talent. Or I may be completely wrong, lol.
it is absolutely amazing to me, the phenomenon of art movements occurring simultaneously across distance, without seeing and interacting with each other, artists began painting abstractly, surely it is no coincidence, but some kind of divine intervention. it's really amazing.
No sure about divine intervention, just think it is more to do with artists reaching similar solutions to familiar problems. Cheers
I remember when I discovered her work, it struck me deeply. I was raving about her to my friends and family. She created art that gives me that feeling which I come by every now and again, of some feature of life, existence, and consciousness that can't well be put into words. I'm 22, depressed, mad at the world and afraid of the lonesomeness of the unkown. Klint's art work makes that "unknown" look comforting and welcoming and beautiful. Maybe this whole paragraph is total bullshit, but maybe it will resonate with someone else
No it isn't. You are young as you get older you'll realise the world is full of good and bad. As an individual you can change a little, but your role is to be as good as you be, smile a lot and appreciate the good things in life, which are the things that you don't have to pay for. And remember the elite's of the world fart just like you do.
Great video! I recently found out about Hilma Af Klint and I love her work. Here in Sweden, the mail stamps feature some of her artworks! Hope to get to see some of her work in a museum someday!
I think she is becoming much better known. She certainly deserves the recognition.
Thank you so much for your excellent narration of a fascinating artist. Hilma was a true pioneer. Her paintings are extraordinary. erxtraordinary.
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
I enjoyed your video very much! I learned about Hilma's work while studying to get my MA in the UK and she became one of my favourite artists next to Rosaleen Norton and Pamela Colman Smith. Is really amazing to see how she connected her spirituality to her artwork. Thank you for this video.
Thank you, really pleased you enjoyed my video. She was a remarkable artist.
Excellent coverage and information. I discovered Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim retrospective in NYC almost 2 years ago and fell in love immediately. The similarity with Kandinsky's works were so apparent - at first, I thought she copied from him until I learned better. Thank you for all your wonderful research and for sharing with us.
Yes, it is great to see her getting the recognition she deserves.
@@ArtHistorySchool I see there are several books published about her life and works. Are there any that you would recommend? Appreciate your input.
I'm afraid I don't have any recommendations
Thank you for your video, it’s the first thing I’ve seen on your channel. I really appreciate that you took the time to speak about her spiritual approach to art in a way that was respectful, informative and kind. Hilma af Klint is very much an inspiration and I hope that her work receives a lot of exposure in the coming years. Also, I would love to have a chance to read and flip through her notes and sketches, so I hope that there is a chance for that someday too!
She was a very interesting character. I hope you enjoy the rest of my videos. Cheers
Sykqueenstdu...also Creative thinking about the your after 1986..
Creative and Beautifully Different Vizlistion process also New Highest value of the video appreciate.thank❤🎉
Saw her Guggenheim on my moms suggestion. She’s my single favorite painter ever. I am all in. Thanks mom
That's great.
Thank you so much for this video! This is the first time I heard about Hilma af Klint. You do a great job at giving a well-rounded look at the lives of these artists and how it influenced their artworks.
That's great, really pleased you liked the video. She deserves to be better known.
Wow that was great.
I love how i am learning about new artists who i don’t even heard their names in each video.❤️
Thank you so much 🙏
You are so welcome!
Beautifully presented video, thank you! I sadly only found out about Hilma af Klint very recently. I am blown away by her art pieces. Extremely moving.
Thank you
I remember seeing her work at the Guggenheim, stunning
Certainly is.
I had never heard of her until this year and I was looking up things to do my comparative study on and my Mom, also an abstract artist, pointed me in the direction of the grand, the great, the mystical, Hilma af Klint. This video is very informative, well put together and a great jumping-off point and learning tool for those who want to learn more about her and her work. Thank you!
Side note, If you ever wanted to do a video on either Helen Lundeberg or June Harwood, those would also be amazing! They have some similar artistic expressions.
Many thanks for your kind comments about my video. I'm afraid I am not familiar with either painter you mention, I'll have to look them up. Cheers
Thank you for this wonderful presentation. I had never heard of this artist before and I very much enjoyed learning about her.
Glad you enjoyed it. She deserves more attention.
Thank you...what a fascinating woman...great Art !
She was a fascinating woman. Glad you liked the video. Cheers
Absolutely fascinating and informative as ever Paul!
Many thanks Andrew.
Absolutely fantastic!!! Thank you millions for bringing the works Hilma af Klint into my life. 🙏🏻💗
You are very welcome.
The Mosses and Lichens series has not disappeared. She made a copy for her own use. This is part of the exhibition showing at the Wellington City Art Gallery. I went to the exhibition yesterday. It was audio described and amazing. The blue-centred spiral in Primordial Chaos kept pulling at me like a magnet. Thank you for providing information about her life which the audio description did not.
Thanks for the info! Glad you enjoyed my video. Cheers
What a tremendous blessing and to be introduced so well, thank you 🙏🏼
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
What a WONDERFUL introduction to this incredible artist's work. Thank you so much for making her work so accessible.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Thank you so much. I came across your channel looking for the documentary about Hilma af Kilnt, which I dont seem to be able to rent on line here in Australia. I loved your programme. The original outsider! I will be looking at your other listings too. Lovely to hear a northern accent too, makes me home sick! We currently have a huge exhibition in Sydney of Hilma's works, but due to lockdown I cannot get to see it yet. This was a great alternative. Thank you.
Really pleased you liked my video and the accent. I hope you get to see the exhibition , unfortunately, I missed the one here at the Serpentine Gallery.
I think she just became my second favorite artist!
I wonder who your first favourite is?
@@ArtHistorySchool Why, Kandinsky of course!!
This was incredible. I will have to read a book about all of this. I found a few.
She is well worth getting to know
Thanks so much! I’ve never heard of this artist, this video developed a starting point to begin
You're very welcome!
Really loved this video Paul. I,ve never heard of her. What an amazing woman! I guess her style was ground breaking. Thankyou and please keep them coming.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
Yes, she should get the credit not Kandinsky!
@@sarahsagar2129 Hey, think she now has!
Thanks for bringing the much deserved attention to this very unique human. Love to hear from those who actually knew her! 🙏
I think most would be dead by now, but you never know.
Breathtaking paintings. She's new to me, but I will be looking for her now. A true master.
Yes, she is much under-rated as an artist.
This is wonderful! Thank you very much for such an excellent lesson. I had never heard of this incredible artist.
You're very welcome! Cheers
Very interesting presentation! I was particularly fascinated by Hilma's association with Steiner. According to Wikipedia, when he saw her pictures he was unimpressed and said they were not worthy of being done by a Theosophist. She was so devastated by his criticism that she stopped working for four years.
I believe that is true.
As a retired part-time Waldorf teacher (Waldorf schools being founded by Steiner), I was excited to see Hilma af Klint's work at the Guggenheim. I read then about Steiner's criticism of her work and it made me sad then and still bothers me. I don't know enough about art/art history or anthroposophy to "take a side". I do know how a criticism, warranted or unwarranted, can change a person's life!! I have hung 2 H. af Klint prints in our 1892 home and most folks are surprised they were originally painted around that time. Thank you for this very well done video!
@@celialarsen8348 How nice that you have two H.af Klint prints in your 1892 home. I've been watching UTube videos of Steiner's writings recently. His ideas fascinate me although they are sometimes slow-going. I've always been interested in his theories of color. His remarks to her sound quite cruel and not what I would have expected of such a forward thinking man.
For what its worth, Wikipedia (that great scholar) doesn't actually give any direct reference for Steiner's comments, so we don't know he actually said that. Maybe its in her notebooks but without context, its just interpretation. But Wikipedia then goes on to say, from Blavatsky's book, that mediumship 'was a faulty practice, leading its adepts on the wrong path of occultism and black magic'. For spiritual leaders such as Steiner and Blavatsky, uncontrolled or passive contact with spiritual beings, without having undergone a rigorous path of meditative practice, could be dangerous, especially for artists. For all we know, Steiner may have been concerned with what we now call her mental health in allowing herself to be a passive conduit for who knows what. Maybe he was pointing to the means by which she was inspired, rather than the artworks themselves. Steiner wasn't known for direct criticism to individuals who sought his advice. And it didn't stop her going back and joining the Anthroposophical Society in 1920 and trying their more fluid watercolour techniques in her latter years.
@@robertaswanson5633 I have mixed feelings on Steiner as well. He seems to have blurred lines of possible divine inspiration and pure ego. (That is the human condition though 🤷♀️) it also seems he “borrowed” others ideas for his own. With great power comes great responsibility.
Again I have watched another one of your videos, and have found another new artist to me. Thank you!
You are very welcome. Cheers
Grazie ,non la conoscevo! ,grazie per aprire la sua e un altra porta della conoscienza ,grazie
Sei il benvenuto.
Thank you for this excellent, comprehensive introduction to a great artist!
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
This was a fantastic video! I'm so happy to learn more about her. Thank you! Subscribed :)
Really pleased you enjoyed the video, Thanks for subscribing. Cheers
Thanks so much for educating us all. This was absolutely fascinating, I loved it. Can't wait to learn more about other artists from this series. Terrific!
Wow. Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
dear sir thank'you...i am very impressed by your productions ...surprised i have just discovered ....af kint ..(looking for klimt ) and need some time to lapse to infuse and realize that and probably listen and marvel again...she was subdued by steiner ...yet no one will remember him as much as her now that is fair
Glad you enjoy my videos, I think you are right about Steiner.
Wow, this woman is phenomenal, I have never heard of her and I’m pretty ancient. Thank you so much for this! 😃💕
You are so welcome!
@@ArtHistorySchool 😃
Thank you for this video. It is a video I didn't know I needed to see.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
Thank you Katy Hessel, thanks for your amazing work, The Story of Art Without Men, I discovered this amazing artist.
I hope you enjoyed the video too
Thank you for the beautiful presentation. She painted the atoms and orbitals, crystal structures, and the helix DNA structure before the world of science knew about them. I don’t have the words to describe my feelings after watching this video. This why she said don’t publish until twenty years of my death.
She certainly was a wonderful artist. Cheers
Always educational and well presented, thank you!! I had not heard of her.
Glad you enjoyed it. I must admit not being aware of her until a few years ago.
I saw her massive exhibition @ Guggenheimnyc& was overwhelmed by the complexity of the work along with her story.This video is a lovely return to that day.🎉
Thank you. I have not been lucky enough to see her work in the flesh. Maybe one day.
Great video again! It's so good to hear about female artists from that era... if you don't search for them, it seems they were not present at all!
Glad you like the video, it is good to see her getting the recognition she deserves.
I saw her work at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and was blown away.
It was a great exhibition, wasn't it?
@@ArtHistorySchool yes it was, and free! The Serp is wonderful. The exhibition was magical, and I couldn’t believe I had never heard of the artist.
Watched this video for the second time today.
Thank you for your lively work with these videos. 🙇🏽
Glad you like them! Cheers
I’m so happy to have found this channel!Hilma was truly a visionary, far ahead of her times. So inspiring!
She certainly was a great artist. Cheers
Another great video. Thank you ❤️
Thanks for watching!
@@ArtHistorySchool cultural Marxism in the arts
What a fantastic introduction this was for me into a wonderful individual
Glad you enjoyed it! She was a great artist.
Thanks so much for such wonderful teaching and knowledge about someone I never heard of but has influenced so many. Great job Paul. Keep them coming!!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
I love this… hearing abt her works and life. Also sad that I’ve never heard of her until now, like millions of women (aka not men).
She was a very interesting painter
So she never marries, keeps her unconventional artistic creations private, searches for a new form of spirituality outside of the main religions, gets involved in a sisterhood, forges extremely close relationships with highly educated women, is a commited vegetarian, wears black, feels like the world isn't ready for what she has to share, doesn't pursue the company of men ever, actually moves in with Thomassine who is her "lifelong companion" and dies four years after Thomassine dies. Come on historians... just say it. It's not a dirty word, let me help you, it starts with an L...
My reaction as well ! Only critique of a very interesting clip .
Interesting comment. I didn't flag up she was Lesbian, simply because as you have indicated it it is very easy for an adult to make that assumption, given the facts we know about her life. But also for another reason, she was a very private person and you and others are making an assumption about her sexuality. I purposely haven't mentioned that in my video because the facts about her life, whilst suggesting she was probably lesbian, could also indicate she was asexual, we don't know for a fact.
I produce short videos about artist's and their work, I will imply, suggest and comment on the the facts of their life and work. So let's let's leave aside the sexual identity agenda and celebrate the fact that this woman, succeeded in a male dominated environment and produced great art works that usurped the assumption, held for many years, that Kandinsky created the first abstract paintings.
@@ArtHistorySchool I'm certainly not saying you should make up assertions where there is no proof but it is undeniable that sexual identity and the experiences that go along with it has an impact on an artist sensibility, view of the world and therefore creations as well. I think that not only would it not be going too far to mention that it is a relevant question about her life, and something we can speculate on, but it would be more honest. You yourself admitted that you had to censor yourself in order not to mention that aspect. Just don't.
As you pointed I mentioned the facts of her life which indicate she may have been a lesbian, asexual or merely had platonic relationship with Thomassine who knows. You assume she was a lesbian, but you have only circumstantial evidence for that, you don't know. Your objection to my video appears to be based on the fact that because I didn't put the label 'lesbian' on this circumstantial evidence and discussed the possibility of how her assumed sexual orientation may have affected her work, I am being dishonest and censorial. Rubbish. Whilst sexual orientation and experiences can influence an artist's work, so can ethnicity, religion and many other things. In this case spiritualism was by far the most important influence on her work. If you want to make a case for her planting a label on her, that's up to you, but in the 15 minutes I had to cover her life in my video, the label wasn't important.
@@ArtHistorySchooltotally agree with you.
Much of it looks abstract to the average person but there are many, many things in many of them, through creatively depicted, she was a true visionary.
ps: your videos are wonderful, each one I watch! Easy to listen to, to watch and wonderfully comprehensive for such a short amount of time. Thankyou for putting these out there.
Glad you like my videos. I think with Hilma like all great artists there is much more to dicover the deeper you dig. Cheers
I think I'm now a fan of hers. Her works are absolutely beautiful! As someone who considers herself spiritual and who also loves to paint abstract art, I love her!
She was a great painter
I was really moved by the exhibition of her work at the Guggenheim but they seemed to focus more on the spiritual aspect of her work which I noticed you didn't speak as much about. I think they wrote that she had multiple spiritual beings (with names) that directed her work and there was also something about a round temple where the work would eventually be exhibited. At least that's what I remember most from the wall texts at that exhibition
You probably spent at least an hour or so in the exhibition, my video is 15 minutes long so things have to be truncated. I have covered her whole life in the video and hopefully given people a flavour of the person and her work. If people wish to further investigate aspects of her life there are lots of sources to work out there. Cheers
Thank you so much for sharing this truly amazing artist' life in this clear, beautiful way.
My pleasure 😊
Thank u for another brilliant and so very detailed and comprehensive video, dear Mr Priestly! I have hardly heard about this so talented artist and it is simply wonderful, that u introduce her, her works, her beliefs and philosophy to us. She's absolutely worth knowing, the founder of modern and abstract art, even five years before Kandinsky produced his works. Amazing! What a shame, that she seemed to be a bit forgotten. This channel is amazing, so educative and interesting. I love it. Yr videos r so inspiring and filled with facts and information. Absolutely great. Cannot wait to c more!
Thank you for your kind comments, much appreciated. More videos are to follow. Cheers
Thank you for introducing me to a true visionary artist. Bravo.
Gald you enjoyed it. Cheers
A truly wonderful biography. Thank you.
My Pleasure
Thank you so much for your wonderful content ❤️It has a great value, and I hope your channel grows a lot! Your videos are so informative and wholesome, and the energy and excitement are really contagious. I can only imagine how much time, effort, and hard work goes into each video. Thank you!❤️
Thank you so much! Really pleased you enjoy them. Cheers
This is incredible! Overwhelming! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for this! I had no idea! She is suddenly one of my favorite artists of all time! ❤️
She kept herself very much to herself, unfortunately this meant she didn't get the recognition she deserved.
An amazing presentation Paul. I did not know this artist. Her work is outstanding.Thank you for all the hard work you did on this artist.
My pleasure! Cheers
Very complete biography and analysis of Hilma’s work! Brave! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you very much!
This is a wonderful video showing the beautiful works of art and history of this amazing artist! Love Hilma's artwork, so unique and ahead of it's time. Thank you so much for sharing!! 😍💕
Really pleased you enjoyed my video, she was a great painter. Cheers
Thank you for this brilliant, beautiful history of Hilma af Klint. Thank you, also, for your bright energy and gift as a teacher. My husband and I were riveted. We've subscribed and look forward to watching your other lessons. You are a treasure.
Wow, thank you, much appreciated. Cheers
Once again a great video! She really was ahead of her time, and very talented in many different styles. Thank you so much for teaching us so many interesting things about art history - you really are a great teacher and art connaisseur!
You are so welcome! Cheers
this is such a wonderful series. Thank you for all these amazingly put together videos!
Glad you like them!
Thank you. This is fascinating. I have never heard of this artist until your wonderful presentation.
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
I put the idea of automatic writing behind me decades ago. There is simply no such phenomenon as at even a molecular level there are preconceived ideas and prejudices that an artist will always bring to the project. And you can see this control in her automatic paintings. That said she is an unrecognized master. Her landscapes are extraordinary and you can even see the influence of Dutch masters by her use of light.
Thank you for this excellent report on this extraordinary woman.
Gald you enjoyed the video. Automatic drawing/writing was used by the Surrealists and Hilma to great effect. If done properly is a good way of creating a brain dump that is unencumbered by reason and logic. I've done it and it works. Whether it can be used as a means of communication with spirits and 'the other side' is not something I would support. Cheers
Yesterday I visited the exhibition of her work in Wellington NZ. I was amazed, stunned and felt overwhelmed. A truly great artist with a deep connection to the world both seen and unseen. Thanks Paul for your informative presentation
You are very welcome. I have not seen her work in the flesh.
The intro music is just lovely and the video very interesting thank you I love how she uses blue and purple in her early naturalistic paintings
I'm glad you like it the video, the music is by Greig
i learned about Mrs. Klint last year only. Thanks for putting very important page of art history, in a very well explained video.
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Thank you for your videos, I'm really enjoying learning about all these artists!
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Very well presented, thank you! Amazing to realize how unusual this was in society during her lifetime
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Thank you for every episode I’ve seen!🙏❤️
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Just phenomenal. Thank you so much for sharing. I went to college for art but stopped in 2003 to raise our firstborn, so I never learned about Klint in my classes. 18 years later, & I am newly homeschooling our two younger children. But it's impossible to be an expert on everything, so I do a lot of research myself & defer to others for many areas, just steering them in this way or that. I didn't want our art studies to be diluted, so decided to focus on art (& also life skills) over the summer. After a quick google search of "female artists", I clicked on one I'd never heard of, & quick search of "Hilma af Klint CZcams" & voila! Your fabulous video & channel. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing. Your channel will be a tremendous help to me. *subscribed* :)
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I love this so glad I found this I've been painting since I was 5 but now I can learn more about art history and mature in my own work.
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Thank you for this discovery
You are welcome
What beautiful work!
It certainly was
I really enjoyed this video. I ressonate very much with Hilmas story as an artist myself. Great video and keep it up!
Thank you! Will do!
Thank you. I am so gratified to see the spiritual in art and the spiritual in the lives of artists being recognised and valued. Twenty years ago I studied for a fine art degree, I enjoyed the experience though there were very few tutors who were open to discuss spirituality in art at all and only one who took it seriously. The advance of acceptance is very welcomed.
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@@ArtHistorySchool You have a great channel there. It is so clear, informative and simple. Just what art explanations need to be. Thank you for your work.
Art history made even better by these wonderful videos. Thank you!
Wow, thank you! Cheers