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overthinking entertainment
Movie: Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint
"Three great abstract artists died in 1944: Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Hilma von Klint".
This was the first biography of the aristocratic artist. Like Vivian Maier, Hilma was a female genius who lived in obscurity her whole life and left behind a body of work that equals and surpasses most of her contemporaries. Discovered 70 years after her death, she is now considered perhaps Sweden's most important artist in any discipline - ever.
This astounding biography details her groundbreaking legacy, as well as her extraordinary life. The first abstract artist of the modern area, all her 2,500 painting and voluminous notebooks of 250,000 pages miraculously remained intact. She was also a mystic, a spiritualist, a feminist and a vegetarian. Until our age, history was busy erasing all traces of female participation from its re-telling. Hers is one happy reversal. 10/10.
Previously on M-F.
As always, It can be viewed on the usual pirated websites, or look for corporately-paid venues.
posted by growabrain on Nov 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Yes, more than ABBA, Bergman...
posted by growabrain at 10:56 AM
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Might be interested to follow up with this recent article:
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting's Posthumous Star "As af Klint's fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name."
(Edit: sorry, I hadn't noticed that had been linked on the front page recently, so it's accessible in the "previously on" link above.)
posted by dnash at 9:09 AM
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