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I think she was a very good painter, but the clickbait title is overdoing it. Af Klint has been celebrated[0] for quite a while now, and if we are supposed to
by biztos 4y ago
I think she was a very good painter, but the clickbait title is overdoing it. Af Klint has been celebrated[0] for quite a while now, and if we are supposed to start caring about the Venn diagram of “mysticism” and the visual arts, well… first, it was in the air at that time and second, if you want your artists to not be into crazy shit I think you’re going to have boring artists.
I think it would be much more interesting to talk about the intersection of wealth[1] and large-format painting.
[0]: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint
[1]: https://hilmaafklint.se/about-hilma-af-klint/ https://hilmaafklint.se/about-hilma-af-klint/
- zeruch 4y agoI don't see the click-bait, but I do agree on "I think it would be much more interesting to talk about the intersection of wealth[1] and large-format painting."
- shellac 4y agoI don’t see the click bait there, and the article makes a reasonable case that she preempted the pioneers of abstract art (though I agree she’s also a less swirly mystical artist). From the article: > Interest in her work grew after a 2016 show at the Serpentine gallery in London, which transferred to the Guggenheim museum in New York, where it broke attendance records with some 600,000 visitors. This is about a forthcoming study, biography, and film.