Documentary about Hilma af Klint, a woman artist encouraged and financed by her father from a young age, though it was disreputable for a woman to paint. After her father's death, she continued painting, prolifically, despite discouragement and condemnation by all around her, ultimately leaving behind a prodigious collection of large artworks. Most of these are what you would call abstract, and the documentary spends a great deal of time establishing precedence, showing that she, in fact, preceded Kandinsky and Mondrian and others, and in fact may have influenced them in their abstract art, though she remains largely unknown or ignored by art historians.
I ultimately did not finish this, as it was beating the whole precedence angle to death while I was already swayed, and just wanted to see more of her work. And granted, you do see a lot of it along the way, large and colorful canvasses that, to me, equal or surpass the Abstractionists I'm familiar with.
I really should have finished this. An eye opener.
Seen on Criterion.
I ultimately did not finish this, as it was beating the whole precedence angle to death while I was already swayed, and just wanted to see more of her work. And granted, you do see a lot of it along the way, large and colorful canvasses that, to me, equal or surpass the Abstractionists I'm familiar with.
I really should have finished this. An eye opener.
Seen on Criterion.
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