Hilma of Clint, Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 9, Elderly,
Hilma of the Clint Foundation
Two pioneering artists who have never met have finally had a conversation at London’s Tate Modern Gallery.
Hilma Af Klint and Piet Mondrian trained as landscape painters in the late 19th century – Af Klint in Sweden, Mondrian in Holland. I was developing an abstract style for
Both worked at a time when they were trying to keep up with major advances in microscopy, radiography, and photography. The world available to human senses was revealed as a fraction of what was available to science.
Each artist’s work included what is now called scientific “visualization.” Af Klint imparted an insight into how things grow in paintings inspired by botanical illustrations. No.9 Old age From The Ten Largest series (main image).
Arum lily; blue flowers 1908-1909.the hague museum
Bequeathed Salomon B. Slijper.j
Mondrian was interested in the mechanics of vision, so he decomposed the image into its perceptual units. Arum lily; blue flowers (pictured above) is a collection of lines, rhombuses and diagonals.
Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, W Series, No. 1, 1913.
Hilma of the Clint Foundation
Af Klint’s World Tree paintings have become almost schematic in an effort to express the cosmic connection between all life. tree of knowledge (pictured above). Her attempts to map her own perceptual associations are even more amazing.
Hilma by Clint, Swan, SUW Series, Group IX, No. 19, 1914-1915.
Hilma of the Clint Foundation
The two works above and below are the culmination of a series that began with the image of two swans.What is displayed here is Swan, No.19 (pictured above) and No. 17 (pictured below), SUW series, from Group IX.
Swan, SUW Series, Group IX, No.17, 1914-1915
Hilma of the Clint Foundation
Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: Forms of life runs until September 3rd at the Tate Modern.
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