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- ISBN 9789189069114
- Weight: 1820g
- Dimensions: 249 x 314mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Stolpe Publishing
- Publication City/Country: SE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Paintings for the Temple is Hilma af Klint’s most significant series and consists of 193 works – among them the iconic The Ten Largest. The pain- tings, that according to af Klint, were an assignment from the spirit world, were created outside of the group The Five, together with Anna Cassel and Augusta Gusten Andersson, among others. The series can be understood as af Klint’s quest for a fundamental ‘oneness.’ A oneness that existed when the world was created, but which was then lost, giving way to a world of dualities: good and evil, woman and man, matter and spirit. The different series attempt to unite these opposites, and at the same time they reveal af Klint’s many influences from the era she lived through.
Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a pioneer of art who made a turn away from visible to spiritual reality. Already in 1906, she had made abstract paintings. Hilma af Klint perceived a spiritual dimension and envisioned contexts beyond the perceptions of the ordinary senses. When painting, she alleged that she was in contact with beings of higher levels of consciousness that spoke and conveyed messages through her. Like her, later, modernist contemporaries were influenced by the spiritual movements of spiritualism, theosophy and later anthroposophy. Her mission was to understand and communicate the various dimensions of human existence.
