Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 6 by Hilma af Klint, 1915 - Abstract Art
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Today I tell you the story of a hidden masterpiece of a Women Abstract art.
""The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings, and with great force. I had no idea what the paintings were supposed to depict; nevertheless I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.”
This is how Hilma af Klint, the Swedish Abstract Art pioneer, described one of her works.
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Group IX/SUW was a group of female Swedish artists active in the early 20th century, formed in 1921 in Stockholm.
The group's name stands for Swedish acronym: (Same Expression), (Our Reality), and (The Way Out), which encapsulate their artistic goals of creating a new visual language that reflected their spiritual beliefs and interest in theosophy, esotericism, and the occult.
The group's most prominent member was Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), who is now recognized as a pioneer of abstract art.
She is best known for her large-scale abstract paintings created between 1906 and 1915, which predate the more famous works of Kandinsky and Mondrian by several years.
Af Klint's paintings were inspired by her spiritualist beliefs and her interest in theosophy, and she often worked in collaboration with a group of female artists called "The Five," who shared her interests.
Af Klint's work was largely overlooked during her lifetime, as abstract art was not yet widely accepted, and she had stipulated in her will that her paintings should not be shown for at least 20 years after her death.
However, in recent years, her work has been the subject of several exhibitions and retrospectives, including a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2018-2019.
The suite called The Swan was painted in 1914 and 1915.
These birds symbolize the ethereal element in many mythologies and religions. In alchemy, the swan represents the union of opposites necessary for the creation of what is known as the philosopher’s stone, a substance believed to be capable of turning base metals into gold.
Here, af Klint’s black-and-white palette underscores the dualities of light and dark, male and female, life and death. With varying degrees of abstraction, through a black and a white swan striving for unity, Hilma af Klint explores the polarities in the painting.
Today, af Klint's pioneering work is recognized as a significant contribution to the development of abstract art, and she is considered one of the most important artists of the early 20th century.
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