Abstraction
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poliphiloAbstract art was invented by theosophists.
Af Klint, Kandinsky, Mondriaan- all three of them theosophists.
Art history tends to treat the theosophy as a quirky hobby these people had, but that's not how it was for them.
Af Klint- who has a claim to be the very first abstract painter- worked in something like a trance- not knowing what she was doing- but accepting what she was given- "never changing a brushstroke". These were channeled paintings.
I'm interested in all this because I've just started painting abstracts myself. I didn't mean to. It just happened...
The way I see it is there are two ways to go if you want to paint metaphysically- one is towards pre-Raphaelitism, the other is towards abstraction...
Af Klint, Kandinsky, Mondriaan- all three of them theosophists.
Art history tends to treat the theosophy as a quirky hobby these people had, but that's not how it was for them.
Af Klint- who has a claim to be the very first abstract painter- worked in something like a trance- not knowing what she was doing- but accepting what she was given- "never changing a brushstroke". These were channeled paintings.
I'm interested in all this because I've just started painting abstracts myself. I didn't mean to. It just happened...
The way I see it is there are two ways to go if you want to paint metaphysically- one is towards pre-Raphaelitism, the other is towards abstraction...
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Date: 2016-04-24 03:51 pm (UTC)Not the way Af Klint's was. I sort of know what I want to do. On the other hand I think there's a sense in which all art is channeled...
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