Hilma Af Klint - Artist Info

About Hilma Af Klint

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    "Hilma Who? No More," By Roberta Smith, October 11, 2018, The New York Times, Exhibition Review
    of "Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future", Oct. 12 through Feb. 3 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Manhattan

    If you like to hallucinate but disdain the requisite stimulants, spend some time in the Guggenheim Museum’s staggering exhibition, “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future.” The museum’s High Gallery — the name has added resonance in this context — displays the show’s rapturous overture, a series of 10 paintings by af Klint (1862-1944), a little-known Swedish painter, modernist pioneer and erstwhile spiritualist. Collectively titled “The Ten Largest,” they may induce disorientation, not the leas...

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